Good luck Steve.

Must admit I thought about filling it with fuel and throwing a match at it when I cracked the foot of the porta power.

If I had known what I was getting into I might have looked at coil overs but I have already got my inserts and springs so going to keep trying.

It has moved 40mm but now that the top pulled out I cant grip it, but at least I have cracked the bond. The resin is bonded to the paint on the strut so if the drill doesnt work going to fill it with paint stripper to see if I can disolve the paint. If that fails then the match option will be tempting

I thought about that but using hydraulic fluid instead of air (safer) but now that its cracked it wont hold any pressure. The porta power is 10 tonnes and that wasn't enough so it will need a lot of pressure and it will just leak. I've had a screw driver all the way to the bottom (broke the handle off getting it back out) so I now have no way to pressurise it and no way to grip it. I have to get the resin out so that its loose enough to fall out. The drill should work the only problem is that I snapped the end of a chisel off and its stuck in the resin so that will be a problem for the drill. Hopefully will be able to chip that out.

Its going to be an interesting weekend.

Steve how you going with the strut ??.

Well I had to concede defeat once the housing broke so I went to my favourite place - ebay uk - and picked up a set of mk3 struts complete with springs and tops, and while I was there picked up a set of D port heads and D port manifold. It all arrived today so hope to be up and running soon.

Kev how did you go with the ride height with those heavy duty springs? Were the theoretical calculations close?

Some pics would be great. So does that mean the heavy duty ones sat too high, or did you not even try them. I am just curious as to how accurate the theory based calculations are.