Down and out MKII Scirocco

[Shepherd]

Thanks to the cold outside, progress is quite slow right now... our garage isn't heated so I need quite a lot of motivation to move my ass there.
But I just had to see how low I can drop it.

Old vs new. The KW strut is 2cm more short than the stock one... so far, so good.


Reduced the coils to everything necessary.


aaand... it's lower.
Left strut is stock, hence why the Rocco is lower on the right.


a closer look though revealed quite a problem... the upper spring seat nearly sits on the strut housing.
There's like 2-3cm of travel left, and it still needs to go lower. oops.
Since the available KW V1 and V2 rebounds have the same strut housing, there are just two options left.
Get a KW V3 rebound, which has 4cm more short struts, or get the other kind of coils with movable mount from some other company...

Shortening the V1 struts is kinda off the table, as I have no idea where I could get shorter cartridges..


Other things which need to get fixed are quite some parts of the suspension touching the body now... like the driveshafts, wishbones and the sway bar.


It's already sitting fine right now, so I guess I'll check the rear next. After that's done, I'll finally be able to strip the body down fully for bodywork and paint!

[DinanDave]

This is gonna be sick! nice progress so far.

[forloveandglory]

Darn this looks promising.
Subscribed immediately.

[P78]

looking good

subbed for this

[Tubaman]

Digifiz FTW. I love those clusters.

[DEADheadDOOLEY]

I'm super jealous of your digifiz. Looks good so far, keep it up!

[Rocambolesque]

Great build, looking forwards to see more. I love Sciroccos!

[aaron22]

digifiz!!! holy I love those clusters. Nice to see a proper mk2 scirocco build too

[j.kam]

Good news everyone!

Stuff has arrived... and I really do love stuff.. so I had to take some pictures and show it around

ahh yeah! digifiz, super jealous.

keep up the good work, I have always wondered how good a mark2 rocco could look!

[Shepherd]

Good news everyone!

Stuff has arrived... and I really do love stuff.. so I had to take some pictures and show it around






8000RPM Digifiz

That's really gonna bring some awesome 80s future atmosphere to the interior!
lower right bulb is broken, but otherwise it's all fine and it was quite cheap, too!


but more important is today's arrival:


KW V1 Inox (and just look at all this amazing bubblewrap it came with!)
It's just a little dirty, needs some cleaning and it'll look like new... will see how low I can go with that. If it's not enough, I might have to modify it.

...looks like I finally can do some more testfittings this weekend...

[nickskater09]

Oh I like where this is going!

[Swag]

Watching this one!

those RM's are gorgeous!

[Dr.AK]

Hurry up, Stefan!

[ju_le_new]

Im so in for this

[nellydragracer]

This is going to look badass!