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August 22nd, 2006 02:07 PM #31
OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer (Actually, dapat OME... ), means looks like it came that way from the dealership.
SSR - brand of aftermarket wheels.
By the way, that picture up there? That's sort of like what the SiR bumper looks like, except there are foglights with plastic housings in that side vent.
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August 23rd, 2006 12:40 AM #32
please please please go JDM style, and OEM as well, please don't go with nasty bumpers and sides, please don't be a ricer, please don't get 17" chrome rims, 15" would look perfect on an EK, please don't do what you see in the Fast and the Furious movies, BE race inspired <--- no body kits no big wheels . . . first I would lose the moldings, get a CTR bumper with the lip, CTR sides and rear lip...
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August 23rd, 2006 04:29 AM #33
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August 23rd, 2006 07:30 AM #34
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August 23rd, 2006 09:02 AM #35
It is safe to do that as long as you be careful... if you think you can do it, then go do it, if you're having second thoughts it might hurt you or something then don't... There are ways to make them "ghetto style" safe, if you are a resourceful person you would know that... I have done this using ropes (lubid) on my BMW when Autozone didn't have a spring compressor available for a free-loan... Me and my friend also did the same thing to his Evo 9... Damn, not everyone has necessary tool access, and why is it that the car involved being a mercedes an exception??? 'Cause it's a Mercedes?
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August 23rd, 2006 09:17 AM #36I salute you.You have balls to remove your Bmw's coil spring without using the right spring compressor and the fact you use a lubid(worst than wire) to compress the springs.Next time try to remove a mercedes coil spring and you'll see what i mean.Just be careful those spring rates are much higher.If your lubid brakes and god forbid the springs hits you,You're goin to feel like this Be careful.Be safe.Somebody loves you.
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August 23rd, 2006 09:52 AM #37
Welcome to the [third] world of ghetto repairs. hehehe. A compressor would have been safer. Too bad the shop didn't have any. Working in a garage (instead of the side of a busy main road) would have been safer, too.
And you should see the 'ghetto' stuff we have to do to patients (for lack of funding/proper equipment).
We did have one problem with wire, we couldn't take it off afterwards because it was too tightly wound. We used around 5 layers (intertwined) on four sides of the spring.
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August 23rd, 2006 11:21 AM #38
First off, thread subject isn't a Mercedes, second, even if it was, would it really make that much of a difference??? I am not sure what the spring rates are on Mercedes, but I am certain that they aren't the same on all Mercedes as you have made the sound of a claim...
I don't think I'd try using "lubid" again the next time I'd have to swap springs. It just happened that a spring compressor wasn't available at the time when I was desperately wanting to do the job... Also, springs won't jump on you IF the rope ever breaks, you would obviously face the top of the strut hats towards the direction to an open space so nobody gets hurt... At first we thought it would fire the strut hat but then it only flew ~5'... I did the rope securely...
I also highly doubt that it would be much of a trouble if you ghetto Mercedes springs, they're "luxury", unless you're talking about one in their sports line, and thus they should have... just ~not too low not too high spring rates, depending on the dampening force provided by the shocks... Ride an Evo 9 on stock suspension and you'll feel how stiff they're springs are right away, since the car's built as a street/track car... I don't know what kind of springs Mercedes put but on my BMW I put progressive springs, which makes it not so hard to compress it with ropes (just tie it around and there's aero chance they'll break)... I swapped springs from OEM to H&R sports (280F/380R), then swapped to H&R race (345F/515R)...
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August 23rd, 2006 11:24 AM #39
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August 24th, 2006 05:47 AM #40
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