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You gotta take the leaf springs out, and he does them from there, but if you were keen you could drive to my house, take em out, take them to this dude who does them, then when we get them back (around 3.5 hours later) chuck them in with the blocks..

Or just bring them round this side of town and take them to him, go to some shops or something for the afternoon and go pick them up

I spent $46.99 on 4 nolathane bushes [which anthony and i had to grind down anyway] for rear leaf spring bushes, and then i go on te.co.nz, and they have the exact right ones [no grinding down or anything necessary] for $2.00

John, a guy basically right next to my house does it for $100 for a 50mm drop

Ah yeh.. hes a pretty good cunt to me lol

Go to repco with me when u do it and we can get them cheap from ben?

He will give like 30-40% off for me..

Will have to be a tues-thurs.. he dont work on monday and friday hes always on lunch breaks

Just angle grind em down

went to supercheap and they had every single suspension bush for front and rear

total = $1008

Like my ones remember, $50 for bloody 2 little as fuck ones.. cant imagine what u are gonna go through

sell one of the vivas to pay for bushes??

Should be able to go 3" lower before it inverts.. if u wanna go any lower than that, go 2" and 2" blocks aswell

Leaf resetting all the way.

Blocks a U bolts are gonna cost u the best part of $100 anyway, i got my leaf springs reset for $120, its just a better way to do it, can go down as much as u like etc

and u dont have to fluff around with u bolts and having horey looking blocks under your axle housing

my vote: reset them. not much more cost, and is way mroe solid

Watch out though... if your front eye bushes need replacing, unless u know somebody, be prepared to pay $60-70 each, thats IF youcan find them ( guy who did mine told me this )

What sort of mounts would your recommend? Custom made ones?

Nah man, just the escort

Cant say I know from experience, but a couple guys I know have lowered escorts and reckon its a struggle if you want any passengers and recommend an extra leaf.

If i had a lil more cash i would have got an extra one aswell

$50 a leaf if i supplied the leaf off another set of springs.. He said more if he were to supply it, so I'd say somewhere around an extra $80-100 for the leaf to be added, then a lil more as u would need new centrebolt.. (Unles your standard 1 is ridiculously long of course)

In a Hunter?

Was going to get another leaf in for super stiffness

But it rides nice as is, rubs on the guards a bit cause I haven't rolled them yet, that's my project for Saturday

So these lotus engines are designed the exact same as the 2.3?

Lotus slant 4s in those Lotus super 7s? Went in one of those when I was about 8, that thing moved for the size of it

My advise, get rid of the blocks, and get the leafs reset.. Its what I did.. Well worth the $120 it cost me

Compression fine

Cars running alright again now, only on the single carby tho

Took the leaf springs out and got them reset with a 2" drop..

happy with the $120 i spent on that, not happy about the $50 i got charged for the Nolathane bushes

Do they run like shit with the lights on? As in no power?

How low are those blocks? Look wayyy more than 2"

tested compression with my thumb, leads with multimeter, and spark by holding the plugs.. the ones in there and the spares had a farely weak spark, new plugs, fired basically first time. so its all sweet now they seemed fine and were sparking ok, but the new ones just ripped into it.. quality

Yeah. Id be doing that probably

Had a few problems as of late..

Car wont start with either single carb, or twins [On twins the 3rd and 4th cylinders were flooding, front 2 were fine.] On single carb, all 4 flood.

The points i Have in currently are sweet, condensor is new, cap is new, and so is the rotor.

So I have a bit of testing to do to get to the bottom of the problem

Gonna be a looooong couple of weeks.. hopefully nothing too serious.. ie. Compression loss