Carlsson w220′s are back from PureKLAS
Sent the Mercedes Carlsson W220′s I brought in November off to Dav at PureKLAS to be polished. We weren’t sure what we were going to do with them but Mark’s decided he wants to try them on Passat.
The only thing we are worried about is how the rear wheels will sit with the air-ride as they are half an inch wider than Marks current wheels at 8.5″. But they are smaller being 18″ rather than 19″. The ET is slightly lower on these as well being ET35.
Anyway I’ll get some pictures up when we trial fit them the weekend and there going to have a nice bit of stretched rubber on them so if they do poke a bit at the back they will look sweet.
Sorry for the pore quality picture that’s mobile phones and garage strip lighting for you lol.
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Sorry for the delay in updating the blog just been so busy!
Anyway last Saturday was the big day for the engine coming out. After spending an hour rebuilding the front of the Passat, Mark had installed new headlights and it was a bigger job than it looked. Then we got the engine hoist delivered and moved on to the Polo.
It took us about an hour and a half to disconect all the pipeing and linkages to the engine but once this was done and the manifold was dropped out the bottom of the car, the engine lifted out with ease. Now thats in storage ready to be stripped cleaned painted and polished ready to go back in once the cars been repainted.
Now we can start cutting sanding and smoothing the engine bay. So were on the final push on the prep work we recon its going to be mid January that the polo can have the weilding done.
On the plus side Dav at PureKLAS is taking the Polo’s allys away to be stripped and polished cant wait to see them finished!
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