MarcMiller's Build Thread

[fbm93]

mine arent bouncy. did you trim down the bumpstops?

[MarcMiller]

mine arent bouncy. did you trim down the bumpstops?

I took the bumpstops and the helper springs out in the front but in the rear i still have the bumpstops in.

I dont want to void the warranty.

[MarcMiller]

3rd times the charm.

Now i can lower it

[NickBroderick]

There ya go.

With my coils almost all the way down (22 1/4" gtf) the ride was a bit bouncy, but not uncontrollable or too bad. At 23 1/4" it feels stock.

[MarcMiller]

There ya go.

With my coils almost all the way down (22 1/4" gtf) the ride was a bit bouncy, but not uncontrollable or too bad. At 23 1/4" it feels stock.

Yeah i hear ya..its alittle bouncy but i can deal with it. Philly roads are horrible but im gonna lower it more.

Ill post pics tomorrow.

[SeanKirk23]

Lower it.

[kerensuissa]

Lower it.

[MarcMiller]

Keren get on my level

[MarcMiller]

Well i got my euro trunk today and the top left corner is bent up a little. Im hoping its not a pain to fix. It needs a good paint job anyway so we'll see how it turns out.

[James Himself]

Yeah i hear ya..its alittle bouncy but i can deal with it. Philly roads are horrible but im gonna lower it more.

Ill post pics tomorrow.

Where in philly are you?

[illeurob5]

Well i got my euro trunk today and the top left corner is bent up a little. Im hoping its not a pain to fix. It needs a good paint job anyway so we'll see how it turns out.

where did you get the trunk?

[MarcMiller]

Where in philly are you?

Northeast.

where did you get the trunk?

i bought it off someone in the classifieds. 200$ shipped. needs to be wetsanded and painted but its not bad.

just noticed this corner being bent..me and the seller thing greyhound dropped it.
what do yous think? is this fixable? if so easily?

[illeurob5]

I think with some tlc it's fixable no biggie

[James Himself]

AreYou going to school in philly or born and raised? We should hang out some time, I live pretty close

ThatTrunk is fixable, you can probably hammer out straight

[MarcMiller]

I think with some tlc it's fixable no biggie

thanks im sure it'll work out.

AreYou going to school in philly or born and raised? We should hang out some time, I live pretty close

ThatTrunk is fixable, you can probably hammer out straight

yeah it should be fine. Greyhound blows

but i was born and raised in philly man. im a freshmen at community college of philadelphia. Im down to chill. we can get a little photoshoot going.
Where do you live?

[MarcMiller]

I just noticed i never posted a recent pic of my car so here ya go..this is my current height. Springs settled and a little rake.

[Moshua]

hey man sorry bout me dropping the ball on the trunk. i was sick with the flu for like 5 days straight then i had to get my car cleaned up and had no brakes for like 3 days. Hope no hard feelings about the euro trunk though. The one you got looks pretty good except for that bend but its a pretty easy fix imo. Hopefully i'll be back in the b5 forums more when i find another a4 i'm always looking i miss my quattro.

[MarcMiller]

hey man sorry bout me dropping the ball on the trunk. i was sick with the flu for like 5 days straight then i had to get my car cleaned up and had no brakes for like 3 days. Hope no hard feelings about the euro trunk though. The one you got looks pretty good except for that bend but its a pretty easy fix imo. Hopefully i'll be back in the b5 forums more when i find another a4 i'm always looking i miss my quattro.

It's cool. I found a good deal.




Front driver side is making a weird rattle noise when I hit bumps and also sometimes when I shift. Spring out of bushing? Control arm bushing? I know my axle is shot it tics constantly. I don't think this noise could be coming from that. What do you all think? Sounds like something is moving around or maybe even tapping something. Any tests I can do to figure out certain things.

[werk]

hammer it if ur gonna sand and resrapy it ne way

[MarcMiller]

hammer it if ur gonna sand and resrapy it ne way

Yeah im gonna. Im actually just gonna tell the shop to do it all. Im just hoping i have enough money after the trunk to get other stuff fixed.

[keeganhartman]

rubber mallet

[MarcMiller]

Just dropped my car off for some body work. Front bumpers getting repainted and getting holes filled in. Rear bumper is getting fixed up and repainted and my euro trunk is getting repainted and installed.

Should get it back next friday.

[MarcMiller]

Got the audi back today!

[.:Hinrichs:.]

trunk and bumpers look good, what exhaust are you running?

[MarcMiller]

trunk and bumpers look good, what exhaust are you running?

Thanks man i like it. Im running a catback exhaust with a magnaflow 14815 muffler.

[LeeHech]

I think I remember seeing somewhere that you were looking for some wheels, I have a set of 17's if you want them, real cheap. they are off of a 2006 a3 3.2.

[MarcMiller]

I think I remember seeing somewhere that you were looking for some wheels, I have a set of 17's if you want them, real cheap. they are off of a 2006 a3 3.2.

Got pictures?

[LeeHech]

they are the 5 spokes without rubber on my photobucket.

http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthrea...-01-B5-Quattro

[MarcMiller]

Ohh gotcha. Im okay im looking for something a little different.

[LeeHech]

no prob, i have snows and the alphards, no use for them currently.

[James Himself]

Looks real clean

[-melloman-]

Hey Marc,

I just got a set of ST's and never owned an Audi before, this was the first time I saw the helper springs. I won't be slammed by any means (24-25" GTF) yet should I think of taking these helper springs out?

What are the helper springs in the front for? Added travel? They make the ride stiffer or softer? (Sorry if these are dumb questions, just never seen anything like this before)

[MarcMiller]

Thanks James, I'm really happy with how it turned out.


And the helpers are there to make the car ride better but with them in they dont go low enough. I would just remove them when you install them so you dont have worry about them in the future. The ride doesnt change much imo. At first i thought with helpers it was less bouncy but after a few days it felt the same.

[-melloman-]

Ok, good to know.

Just never seen them before and wondered if they actually served a goodpurpose or not.

Thanks.

[MarcMiller]

20mm spacers in the rear. I have 8mm im going to install in the front soon.