Ronal Love
 

They have finally arrived! WAHOOOOOO. Just got back from mountain climbing in New Hampshire to find these beauties waiting for me at work. :devil::rock::devil:

Thank you to every one of you who aided me in this quest.

Time to go tire shopping, they need skins.

Nice one Matt, I love deep dish Ronals, very classy wheel :rock:

can't beat dish!!!:tup:

The snow, which I love to play in, is killing me. The Coupe is still sporting studded snow tires on steelies.

I want to mount these on the car so bad I can taste it. Got at least another month tho'. :wall:

I was considering Kumho (Sp.?) tires, based on a friends recommendation. Toyo's seem ubiquitous here but I'm told they don't have good tread life. Any thoughts?

The last set of Toyos I had lasted, 16000 miles on the front

my current set of T1R have lasted 14000 miles so far, fronts are more worn than rears, 2004 1.8T quattro S Line, 1545 kilos ( heavy) and I do test the quattro drive !
I reckon I'll get another couple of thousand out of them but the tyre shop did warn me that I wouldn't get the 19k I had out of the factory PZeros however the grip is much better and I'll always sacrifice life for grip.

I was a Bridgestone man for years, then the Comp/TA's started to be less Comp and more "domestically" friendly. Michelins can be great but are frightfully expensive. Pirelis grip like denture adhesive but last about as long. Winter tires I love Gislaveds and Hok's.

So, today we've gone from a fresh foot of snow on monday to 60 degrees F.

Had to really see how the deep dish Ronals would look on the GT.

Dropped the front snow off, rinse, lift, replace with Ronal, check colored center cap vs. black hexed Audi center.

Clearly the ride height is embarassing so, I sat on the hood enough to drop 25-30mm off the front. Looks about perfect. :devil:

Now I gotta find lowering springs to equal this range. I'm open to suggestions for the 1983 non-Quattro Coupe.

Had to put the snow back on. More "weather" on mon-tues. :mad

http://i653.photobucket.com/albums/u...RonalR8002.jpg
http://i653.photobucket.com/albums/u...RonalR8004.jpg

Having trouble. Hold on.

http://i653.photobucket.com/albums/u...RonalR8010.jpg

mines on a 40mm drop and with 15" wheels looks the dogs Matt so that's my reccomend. Currently i'm on the 14" cookies and although good for originality sake I can't help but miss that extra inch on the rim :D

ask any woman a inch makes all the differance :ihih::ihih::lol:

What do you fiends think?

Looks fine to me, however i dont think its a good idea to have folks sitting on the bonnet to save on lowering springs... plays havoc with yer forward vision. :)

Tis right IMHO...

If you can get the old girl down 25/40mm she'd set those off beautifully...

I might have to go all out with coil overs. Big $. If I had to guess.

Have a quick PM into Jay (Puglife), he's going Coilovers with a CQ at the moment...

Aternatively Spax do a 35mm drop kit for CQ's, so it's possible they still do the Type 81 kit too...

My type 81 Sport has Eibach ( no longer made.... ) and they were 40 mms.Picture in my gallery

http://www.classic-audi.co.uk/forum/...php?albumid=72

Chris, looks like a nice ride height. Looking into options now. Any idea how long yours have been out of production?

Two or three years I was told.
Koni used to do very similar but again no longer
I was offered by the UK importers the possibility of a new set by the UK importers ( mine are rusty) at £240 per spring !!
However I'm going back to them to check, in case it was £240 a set ( perhaps something losy in the trenslation from German to English) as I have found a place in th e UK that will do a set for £175 + tax.... but they need an original front & rear spring to copy.