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Very budget track build
GilesWoodward59:
--- Quote from: Pudding on April 11, 2023, 03:38:28 pm ---
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--- Quote from: Pudding on April 07, 2023, 11:29:56 am ---£300 is pretty good :happy2: Much better than the UK outfits that want £1000 to rebuild Ohlins coilovers :stupid: :grin: Needless to say, they are still rotting in my parts cupboard :grin: I might sneak them onto the MK6 TDI when the missus isn't looking :grin: Also got the MK7.5R front brakes to chuck on as well :grin:
Yeah I reckon they've addressed the quality issues by now. It was circa 2006 I got a set and they hadn't been in operation that long at that point. Yeah I used the Comp brake top mounts on my Corrado many moons ago. I would recommend switching out the spherical bearings for NMB or Aurora (Merlin Motorsport sell them) as the ones supplied in mine only lasted 1000 miles :grin:
Yeah exactly, those lengths are what it takes merely to run a car low whilst keeping the roll centre where it needs to be :happy2: It's a hell of a lot of changes over a Golf! The TT is easily the sportiest setup car of the Golf platform cars :happy2:
:grin: Oh well, I guess all that faff is what we pay someone else to figure out :grin:
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Surprised you have not flogged the Ohlins yet! Lots of grubby hand would love to a get a bargain on a set of them I bet.
Yeah It did come to mind that such a well priced top mount might have crappy bearings :grin: I did note that the sleeve nut on one side would not slide into the bearing with a bit of a thwack compared to the other side so that was a slight hint :grin: For under £200 though what can you expect, still great value.
Yeah, the "hairdresser's car" that every loves to say actually has some really cool engineer-y bits on it.
Did just whip to Halfords yesterday on saturday and stuck a 063 battery in, classic Ford Fiesta/Vauxhall Corsa style battery, runs absolutely fine with it. Weighed the new one in at 10.3kg, the old one at 16.7kg, it may be heavier than that when new as it has leaked a bit but a minimum weight saving of 6.4kg for a grand total of £45 is pretty decent still.
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The front two need a rebuild as it's an early version of the kit with a nylon bearing sleeve that wears out prematurely, causing a knocking noise at slow speeds. They revised that part in the later kits, typically! I'm not one for selling stuff with caveats :grin: It's like all those car adverts with "Just needs an oil change" or "Runs a bit rough, just needs a coil" :grin: Yeah right, it were that cheap and simple, they'd have done it already :stupid:
:grin: yeah some slight issues with the build quality. The good ones are 3x the price though!
Yeah shame really as it's way better than a Golf in terms of handling and weight distribution! The Boxster was also technically a superb car, better than the 911 in some respects, but it was also afflicted by the same stereotype, or "You bought that because you can't afford a 911" :grin:
Cool, so long as you don't get any juddering from the steering at full lock in the winter, you can call that a win then :happy2:
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Lol, I once bought a 924s because I couldn’t afford a Boxster :driver:
Good car actually, apart from the rust…
Clarkj93:
--- Quote from: Pudding on April 22, 2023, 12:34:14 am ---Haha, it's just decades of persevering with a dumb layout regarding 911s :grin: I haven't driven any modern porkers, but I did drive a mate's 993 3.6 and that thing was glued to the road. They have a very unique feel. I can see why people like them :happy2:
It did always puzzle me about how people adjust camber plates, and it seems you have the answer :happy2:
If you're planning on fitting 4 pots to those Audi hubs, you might be OK with just the mass of bigger discs to dissipate heat, but nice plan looking into ducting. Even with the monster brakes BTCC cars use, they still have ducting, so it must be effective :happy2:
Are you going full TT with the wishbones and steering rack? That would be a great setup for roll center correction and improved steering :happy2:
Hopefully not too much wheel poke as MK5 arches aren't particularly generous!
Not seen those droop straps before. Interesting! Would limiting the droop not also limit the damper's rebound travel? Then again, coilovers tend to have less travel anyway so it might work well in practice :happy2:
Yeah there's a lot of slack in the subframe mounting holes! I didn't even get half a degree extra caster from SuperPro's claimed +1 degree console bushes :grin: I reckon you'd have to shunt the struts forward about 10mm to get a degree more, which the console bushes aren't even close to. That would be a good move if easily achievable :happy2:
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I drove a 2007/2008 911, not sure on the model number or spec and was told to drive it very gently so at that speed just felt like any other stiff heavy german car frankly! I'm sure they are great when you're giving them some hence the following and various race car variants.
Yeah what I've noticed is the TCR cars I've seen have big fat ducts to the brakes but they tape over them by a certain percentage until they get the right temps for the pad and disc to work at best.
I was going to initially but from watching an old Darkside video recently they opted against the TT rack because it wasn't quite right for their customesuspension setup but they also said lock to lock its only slightly less and with such an expensive build on their golf they were happy using the caddy steering rack which I'm sure is not any quicker than the golfs so I may leave it to just save some £'s, but then again I could get the rack just because it will have all the steering arms installed ready to go and then it simply bolts in (with some coding-in on top) and yeah I am fully expecting to grind those arches down! It only just fits now with the TT arms and at this ride height.
Yeah would limit the rebound, if done correctly you will have the same bump but less rebound, effectively shortening the damper but without effecting bump travel.
Yeah its asparational agreed but if there is slack may as well get it as far forward as possible I was thinking!
Clarkj93:
Not sure if anyone else here noticed but Darkside had/have a massive clearance on spare bits and bobs. I was quick enough to snag the AR-1's from their Mini development car, only seen one track day at Combe and after checking the depths, two of them are like almost new with around 4-5mm left (these only come with 5.5 when brand new) and the other two about half worn at about 2.6-3.6/4mm. Easily 2 full track days in them, maybe 3 at a push.
Anyway.. I bagged them for £170 delivered! Considering just 1 brand new Ar-1 is £180 what an absolute bargain. So chuffed with that I had to brag about it. :grin:
It was also interesting to see they had them mounted oddly. These tyres are supposedly non-directional but you can see by the wear that they've mounted them as if they are. They're marked as having an "INSIDE" and "OUTSIDE" to the tyre where as the NS2R's have a directional marker, I contacted Nankang anyway to confirm and they specified you must have the OUTSIDE label on the OUTSIDE and that even though the direction looks odd this is expected and part of the tyre design so they were Darkside were seemingly running the INSIDE on the wrong side which is strange.... maybe it doesn't matter and its just a tyre balancing thing but found that unusual anyway.
pudding:
Bargain! They look meaty and grippy! Weird switching the rotation round like that. Maybe they had their reasons as they're all about track work there?
Clarkj93:
--- Quote from: Pudding on April 30, 2023, 02:22:13 pm ---Bargain! They look meaty and grippy! Weird switching the rotation round like that. Maybe they had their reasons as they're all about track work there?
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Yeah I thought that. I wonder if it's just an over sight on their side as maybe as Nankang did confirm that 100% it does give a non symmetrical look when setup correctly. Maybe one sides sidewall is stiffer to the other or something? I drove the ns2r's the wrong way around before anyway and it felt like easy a second a lap slower and the car was moving around a lot so I'm just going to do what Nankang tell me form now on :grin:
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