Maikki's -92 GTII
Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 7:29 am
February -10 I found this nice GTII from ffp.fi sales section. When we went to pick it up Finnish winter showed for it is capable...-31 when we started heading for 250 mile journey and coldest was -37. Also somebody was messed the timer for preheating so it was on 5 minutes before I went to start my car. My saab 9-5 didn't sound happy at all but started immediately 
When we started to get back home we had really bad snowstorm
here back at home
With oem springs you feel driving suv so lower we go...I bought Raceland coilovers ~200€ delivered so I thought why not try them
slammed:
I've been quite happy with them. Ride quality is good, no leaks or dropping which some of you have had with their coils.
Rocco came with snowflakes but I bought these BBS from Golf III. Perfect fit with 5mm spacers in front and 10mm rear. I had 195/50-15 but rubbing was bit og a problem so I bought 175/50 Kumhos.
For winter I didn't like steelies at all so Sebrings with 185/55-15 studded Bridgestone Noranza2's works fine
Paint looks good after washing
But reality is shocking. Rocco has had it's share from acid rain, stones etc...50/50 after heavy polishing with rotary, woolpad and Megs 105
Rocco was booked for painting 11.6 but then nice white cloud started to follow the rocco
What do we have here...
Head gasked had failed and coolant leaked into 1. cylinder. Funny thing is that Rocco had total top end reneval 43kmiles ago. New seals from Elring, new water pump + other goodies only costs under 150€ so no disaster
Machinery shop took 69€ for checking the head. I dropped it yesterday 11am and got it back 1pm so fast job because we have holiday today
More pictures will follow after we've put the engine back together. I have some ICE waiting for installing: Alpine head unit, zetec vector 350.6 amplifier. macrom loudspeakers. 10" subwoofer 4" 2-ways already installed into back and 6.5" 2-way system will be istalled into front. My friend is a carpenter and promised to make adapters.
I also have 9A waiting to get some attention
When we started to get back home we had really bad snowstormhere back at home
With oem springs you feel driving suv so lower we go...I bought Raceland coilovers ~200€ delivered so I thought why not try them
slammed:
I've been quite happy with them. Ride quality is good, no leaks or dropping which some of you have had with their coils.
Rocco came with snowflakes but I bought these BBS from Golf III. Perfect fit with 5mm spacers in front and 10mm rear. I had 195/50-15 but rubbing was bit og a problem so I bought 175/50 Kumhos.
For winter I didn't like steelies at all so Sebrings with 185/55-15 studded Bridgestone Noranza2's works fine
Paint looks good after washing
But reality is shocking. Rocco has had it's share from acid rain, stones etc...50/50 after heavy polishing with rotary, woolpad and Megs 105
Rocco was booked for painting 11.6 but then nice white cloud started to follow the rocco
What do we have here...
Head gasked had failed and coolant leaked into 1. cylinder. Funny thing is that Rocco had total top end reneval 43kmiles ago. New seals from Elring, new water pump + other goodies only costs under 150€ so no disaster
Machinery shop took 69€ for checking the head. I dropped it yesterday 11am and got it back 1pm so fast job because we have holiday today
More pictures will follow after we've put the engine back together. I have some ICE waiting for installing: Alpine head unit, zetec vector 350.6 amplifier. macrom loudspeakers. 10" subwoofer 4" 2-ways already installed into back and 6.5" 2-way system will be istalled into front. My friend is a carpenter and promised to make adapters.
I also have 9A waiting to get some attention
