|
Author
|
Message |
|
|
 Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 9:40 am |
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 21, 2010
Posts: 267
Trade Rating: 0
Location: Middlesbrough
|
 |
are they important? and if i couldnt grind the whole thing off maby half?
Lowered my car at the weekend and its only 1inch of the ground all round, need to loose the sills as my coilovers have seized up and i cant raise it up.
+++ Help not hinder please +++
| |  |
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 10:09 am |
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 29, 2010
Posts: 3977
Trade Rating: +15
Location: Halifax
|
|
You would not be able to jack the car up from the side.
| | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 10:12 am |
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 21, 2010
Posts: 267
Trade Rating: 0
Location: Middlesbrough
|
|
well if i left a small bit of the sill still in place for jacking, each side? what are they for anyways? just jacking??
| | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 10:26 am |
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 29, 2010
Posts: 3977
Trade Rating: +15
Location: Halifax
|
|
It would probably just squash anyway. a normal jack bends the sills anyway unless its got a huge base plate. I don't know why Peugeot even recommend jacking it there.
I would get a second opinion before you go ahead but I doubt they are structurally integral. I have bashed and squashed mine to hell and its not split in half.
| | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 10:52 am |
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 21, 2010
Posts: 267
Trade Rating: 0
Location: Middlesbrough
|
|
yeah mine are pretty battered too. was thinking of cutting them off because it will be cleaner than bending them, but yeah, all i really need to know for sure is if they are structurally integral. if not then bye bye sills!
| | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 11:39 am |
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 08, 2010
Posts: 7045
Trade Rating: +5
Location: In the garage
|
|
Thats the seam where the inner and outer sill are welded together...If you've mangled it by jacking it up there then you've not been very nice to the car.
Use a trolley jack with a 12" block of 2" thick timber between the jack head and the box sections under the floor. If your car is too low then drive up some blocks of timber to get more height.
| | |
|
|
|
|
 | |  |
| 2001 GTi 138, Bilstein Sprint dampers, H&R springs, 21mm Peugeot Sport torsion bars, 22mm rear ARB, Peugeot Sport Group A wishbones, 283mm discs, Goodridge stainless hoses, Maniflow 304 grade 4-2-1 2.5" manifold and system, 200 cell cat, Richard Longman head, 45mm Jenvey throttle bodies, 9.5mm TB spacers, 90mm air horns, Jenvey throttle linkage, Jenvey fuel rail, Aeromotive and Goodridge fuel fittings and braided hose, ITG sausage filter, Radtec custom radiator, Piper Ultimate Road cams, Piper vernier pulleys, Omex 600 ECU. Saxo electric PAS pump, Vibra Technics engine mounts. Samco coolant hoses, TTV steel flywheel, 4.76 final drive ratio, 307 CC 180 ratios. 2019 BMW 530i. 2017 Mercedes C300 convertible. | |
 | |  |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 11:54 am |
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 21, 2010
Posts: 267
Trade Rating: 0
Location: Middlesbrough
|
|
Im pretty sure my car doesn't like me eddy, however i know how to jack my car up, i just need to know if the sills need to be on the car.
| | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 11:56 am |
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 29, 2011
Posts: 6526
Trade Rating: +10
Location: Westhoughton, Lancashire
|
|
The sills make up part of the strength of the car. Cut them off and if you get hit by or run into something then you will increase the chance of the car folding in 2 and mangling you against the steering wheel.
Go for it, it could be entertaining.
| | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 11:58 am |
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 21, 2010
Posts: 267
Trade Rating: 0
Location: Middlesbrough
|
|
No need to be bitchy macca, its just a question.
| | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 12:00 pm |
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 08, 2010
Posts: 7045
Trade Rating: +5
Location: In the garage
|
|
Apart from all that they aren't important.
| | |
|
|
|
|
| | |
| 2001 GTi 138, Bilstein Sprint dampers, H&R springs, 21mm Peugeot Sport torsion bars, 22mm rear ARB, Peugeot Sport Group A wishbones, 283mm discs, Goodridge stainless hoses, Maniflow 304 grade 4-2-1 2.5" manifold and system, 200 cell cat, Richard Longman head, 45mm Jenvey throttle bodies, 9.5mm TB spacers, 90mm air horns, Jenvey throttle linkage, Jenvey fuel rail, Aeromotive and Goodridge fuel fittings and braided hose, ITG sausage filter, Radtec custom radiator, Piper Ultimate Road cams, Piper vernier pulleys, Omex 600 ECU. Saxo electric PAS pump, Vibra Technics engine mounts. Samco coolant hoses, TTV steel flywheel, 4.76 final drive ratio, 307 CC 180 ratios. 2019 BMW 530i. 2017 Mercedes C300 convertible. | |
| | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 12:05 pm |
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 21, 2010
Posts: 267
Trade Rating: 0
Location: Middlesbrough
|
|
cool. ill just cut em off then, no harm in a little steering wheel mangling every now and then.
| | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 12:08 pm |
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 07, 2010
Posts: 3948
Trade Rating: +7
Location: A Track near you ;)
|
|
|
|
|
| | |
| Renault Clio III RS - Race Car 
Renault Trafic - Daily & Tow Van
Former Poverty 206 XS 1.6Turbo Owner  | |
| | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 1:28 pm |
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 24, 2010
Posts: 2596
Trade Rating: +17
Location: North West Wales
|
|
Who's making the popcorn then?
| | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 2:03 pm |
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 28, 2011
Posts: 411
Trade Rating: +1
Location: sunny stoke
|
|
Is this a joke?
| | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 3:39 pm |
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 07, 2010
Posts: 838
Trade Rating: +2
Location: Taking a gearbox off somewhere
|
|
| pnut_man wrote: |
| cool. ill just cut em off then |
Don't expect the car to see an MOT pass certificate again.
| | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Membership:
Latest: 
New Today: 0
New Yesterday: 0
Overall: 17128
Online Now [486]:
Visitors: 485
Members: 0
Staff Online Now:
Page Views:
General
Forums Home
Forum FAQ
Search
