How does the rear sway bay fit up?

[roccodingo]

Are uprated trailing arm bushes available?

I'm using the powerflex ones from the UK...got them in 2000 when i was there at the time..

http://www.powerflex.co.uk/products....=12&submit1=GO


If need be, I can give you the dimensions where to drill the hole..LMK..

[Campaign]

Peter,
Wouldn't fitting just a rear sway bar alter the handling balance? Might you need to uprate the front one as well?

Paul

[EndlessMKI]

big bars.......stiff springs........game on : )

[Tim]

Peter,
Wouldn't fitting just a rear sway bar alter the handling balance?

Paul

I thought that was one of the points of upgrading the rear swaybar!

[Peter Jones]

Peter,
Wouldn't fitting just a rear sway bar alter the handling balance? Might you need to uprate the front one as well?

Paul

I'm what you call an opportunistic upgrader. I do what I can when I can! Ebay sends me lots of stuff that I don't really have time to fit! It all just piles up for when I've got a minute or two to bolt it all on. When a front bar comes my way that'll get fitted too.

There's a pile of parts waiting to get fitted. I've set aside next weekend to prep the car for DOVW.

There's
Wheel spacers for the rear.
Strut braces - Front upper & lower and rear upper.
The loudest set of air horns you can imagine (think diesel train)
Speaker pods for fronts doors (but they foul the window winders)
A new back parcel shelf(all the bits are there now to make one)
The sway bar of course.
And whatever else is sitting over in the golf staging area!

There realy is no particular point or purpose to this, I just want to do it. It's not going to be the fastest, shiniest, coolest lowest or any other sort of -est car out there, I just do stuff to it 'cos it's fun! (Although those air horns might just be the loudest!)

I enter the car in DOVW because that's how you get a really good parking spot.

Last year I took out second place in modified Golf 'cos only one other person entered that class.

Looking forward to catching up with everyone again this year. They're parking by class so we should all be close together this time.

Pete

[blackgti1.8]

Regards poly bushes for the rear - choose a soft compound.
You'd be surprised how much hard bushes will stuff your ride.
Actually, a poor man's solution is to cut off the part of the standard rubber bush that protrudes, and then put a big flat washer on either side.

On sway bars, some aftermarket bars mount backwards towards the rear.
Avoid these, unless they have plenty of allowance for flexing - the axel and swapbars move in different arcs, which doesn't do much for any semi-rigid bracket that trys to keep them connected

[Campaign]

I thought that was one of the points of upgrading the rear swaybar!

True, however, fitting just the rear sway bar may degrade the handling - increase rear inside wheel lift off and increase understeer.

[EndlessMKI]

True, however, fitting just the rear sway bar may degrade the handling - increase rear inside wheel lift off and increase understeer.

have you actually just put on JUST the rear sway bar and tried it for yourself?

because I can certainly tell you it does not increase understeer.

[Tim]

its the opposite dude. If u increase the rear inside wheel lift that reduces grip in the rear which gives u that cool mid corner oversteer/turn in. Altho with everything there are limits. U dont want to increase oversteer to the point where it gets sudden and difficult to contain. the bar being fitted here is quite modest. Im sure the results will be quite an improvement.