Slammed Jeep Patriot

[iadubber]

I know you reqested in October, but here's a quick PS of the Avant Gardes you wanted. I think they'd look killer

[willis6057]

cheers, looks sick.
I have removed all of the green, now on the search for a set of wheels.,

[jlaffo91]

this is awesome, and even better, your from perth too

[DeltaAlpha9]

Huh, would you look at that. I can honestly say that I never imagined a lowered Patriot before stumbling across this thread. Pics with the green gone?

[Beware]

I have taken the beads out and put them into my old school merc project. lol. The ROH's are just sitting in my garage, there 5x120.65

What are you doing with them?

[willis6057]

No new photos of it without the green (rims are still green though) looks much cleaner now too, as for the ROH's, i sold then to some guy, hes putting them onto his Torana.

[LeegitSmashBox]

Willis, I'm trying to lower mine too. A guys telling me h&r springs can drop it 1.5" and once they settle should come down a bit more. I wanted to drop 2.5-3" tho. Did u try springs before u used the coilovers

[willis6057]

i had reset springs which lowered it 2.5-3 inch. i have my old strut and spring setup sitting in my garage. that would be your best bet, them H&R? springs wont get you as low as you want, i'm also running adjustable rear control arms in the rear.

[rice4life]

I think that the square light setup from the commander would make it look so much more upscale like a mini landrover.

Glad you got rid of the green, can't wait to see the new wheels.

[LeegitSmashBox]

How did it ride with the reset springs tho? If in sitting on 22" it may be low enough with the h&r? Cause that will give me a little less gap to close in comparison to the 20" tho right? Are u gonna sell the old gear?

[willis6057]

Bit of an update:
- Removed all the green.
- Started doing some work to the engine bay.
- NEW WHEELS! there Work Gnesis GS1, sit flush front and rear with no spacers (sorry for the crap phone pic) cars sitting a bit high in the photo because i only just put the rims on and jacked it down and drove 10sec down the road

How do I change the title of a thread?

[willis6057]

The new wheels are Work, Gnosis GS1's

[willis6057]

started with stock 2011 rear bumper (lower half)


trimmed it a bit to see if it would even work sitting 100mm lower than stock bumper


grafted diffuser


closed exhaust outlet and smoothed the other side to match.


test fitted


decided best way to finish the ends would be to graft the bumper to s set of standard style mud guards




started trimming/shaping them to suit the bumpers body lines


cutting, plastic welding, fiber glassing (the inside) and some sanding


laid some primer down

[willis6057]

put the bumper build on hold for a bit and decided to pull my finger out and finally install bags

some parts started arriving


built two compressor mounts for under my car








Decided i wanted to run digital pressure gauges


bought a another dash surround


some junk gauge holder, trimmed to suit the dash and mounted.


infill panels




few layers of fiberglass


sanded after drying


laid some primer down

[willis6057]

mounted the tank


painted


wet sanded/polished/waxed


applied a ceramic coating


started running the airlines


stainless braided/copper lines


still want to run a full size spare; ive needed 3 times this year already


not the neatest hard lines, but you wont even see them so i'm not fussed




using one of these controllers, so go a mate to make us a 2m long cable extension


still need to plumb in the moisture traps; have allowed room/straight runs in pipe to install them.