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Candy White Golf GTI Ed. 30 - 8th track day at Estoril
Shoduchi:
--- Quote from: colesey on May 23, 2018, 11:08:35 am ---Fwiw fitting the superpro (passat) lca and bjs onto my stock gti hubs changed the toe enormously also! Think the cars with the heavy 345mm brakes got alloy arms and hubs to offset some of the weight gain.
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Not all. The R32 didn't get any alloy part on the front suspension, just got a rear alloy subframe to offset a bit of weight gain due to the AWD system. Just the S3 and the Cupra got front alloy parts.
Shoduchi:
--- Quote from: Pudding on May 23, 2018, 11:18:08 am ---Passat was mostly 312mm brakes as per the GTI, and the R32 got cast steel hubs. I wonder if the Jetta got alloy parts? I think it VW just consider the Passat and Jetta more 'premium' than the Golf. How about the 6R vs S3?
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Nah, Jettas got the same parts as Golfs did. The 6R is just like the mk5 R32 with cast parts. The S3 and the Cupra, as I previously wrote, got the more 'race' oriented alloy parts.
pudding:
VW cheaped out on us :grin:
Alloy has different NVH characteristics as well as lighter weight, which is probably why the 'premium' cars got it vs steel for the humble Golfs.
MIJ_JAGGER:
Brakes looking delicious
Christiank:
Looks great with the new breakes mate!
Should be something that you fell in steering with all the parts changed at one time.
I also changed my hubs, wishbones, dampers, struts, wheel bearings and a few other parts once everything was apart anyway… Just makes no sense to me why my Vagbremtechnic adapters won't fit with my 986 front calipers from the Porsche Boxster - Hopefully a solution will come soon! :rolleye:
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