your car makes me happy ! :banana:
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your car makes me happy ! :banana:
Yup 225/40/18! Was going to go for 235/40/18 but wasn't sure how much strut clearance I had. Next tyres will probably be 235/40/18, Im happy to accept the slightly bigger rolling diameter for the trade off of being able to get a wider range of tyres that will be the correct load rating!
Also last night I gave the car a good run through the hills and deduced a few things.
The Brakes have fantastic initial bite but the street spec pads fade a bit early, plans are to get a set of Project MU HC+ pads or Hawk HP+ pads.
Pad Knockback is rearing its ugly head :/ Given my front bearings have done 150xxxKm first stop is to replace them and hope that helps. I've e-mailed Koyo, NTN and SKF all to see if they have heavy duty bearings suitable for motorsport applications in a 40x74x40 size. Failing that / If new bearings doesn't help enough i'm going to look at putting in anti knock back springs into the calipers. Stay tuned!
Oh and I've also discovered a coolant weep from somewhere around the thermostat housing, so when I next pull things apart that'll be getting replaced along with the crack pipe!
For now, i've cleaned the car and here's a new photo :)
http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z...psbd3a04fa.jpg
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...87100000-2.jpg
You should be able to fit 235/40 easy. I'm just about to fit 235/40 on the front with 8.5 ET35
I am impressed. This is exactly what I want to do but did not realise the work involved. I have a 2.0 Litre FWD standard engine BUT with the drop suspension and 19" 225/35/19. Wish I had a list of parts to buy and what needs to be converted/adjusted i.e. exhaust to fit turbo etc. to do the conversion.
I'll just don my flame suit and wait for the chorus of "sell it!", "swap the engine for a 1.8T/ V6" : crickets :Quote:
Originally Posted by Eman
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Would like to see a few shots of the wheels from further back to really get an idea of how they complement the car.
Love that car
Well put in the whiteline 22mm swaybar today. Result = Car feels more responsive in turn in. The back doesn't come out to play which wasn't the goal anyway so i'm happy about that but it does feel like with a flick and some power I could make it dance. The bar is currently on the softest setting so ~ equivilant to the 20mm swaybar on its stiffest setting.
I'll try playing around with it, going between the different settings but for a relatively cheap mod I think its quite effective.
Next on the list is new front wheel bearings to try to help reduce the pad knockback I'm suffering. Time to hit up ECS i think!
Long time, no bump. I've driven the car probably half a dozen times in the past 3 months. As its not a daily and life is pretty busy I unfortunately don't get the time to drive it as much as i'd like. That said the few times I have gone for a play in the hills i've been very frustrated by the pad-knockback! As such I bit the bullet and bought new wheel bearings and a few other goodies recently from ECS.
I'll also be getting anti-knock-back springs from either AP or a maker in the U.S. so hopefully my pad-knock back woe's will be solved. That combined with some more aggressive pads should make for a pretty evil brake setup, the potential in them is huge, just a few teething issues.
Hopefully i'll get it all sorted in the next few weeks but as always, gotta find time to do it all!
Keep up the good work !
No issues with gearbox/ diff?
How much hp and psi are you pushing at the moment?