First we removed the dash fresh air/heating system with hoses. The car has it's engine at the back, and the radiator and dash heater have their own hoses. So by eliminating the dash heater, we got rid of ca. 8 meters of hose.
Next we lowered the rear by removing the upper mounts for the rear springs. The upper mounts would just be excess weight when converting the rear to coil-overs.
When the rear was at the right height, we noticed that we didn't lower the front enough when the car was laying on it's side. So we had to of course also lower the front. Cutting the front springs was easy when the car was on it's side, but not anymore, so we decided to lighten the front floor and at the same time create access holes for the front springs.
The car is now at a decent height, both front and rear tires have about 5cm of room to travel, which should be enough for track use. We will still have to check the travel of the front suspension, probably the shocks are bottomed, and hopefully not the balljoints...
Rear end, springs and their upper mounting points removed. Resting on only the shock absorbers.
Lightening the front floor. The floor will be covered with aluminium.
A design flaw by the VW factory? When you lower enough the breather tanks interfer with the wheels.
The car lowered.
Left side painted.
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