What did you do to your Polo today?

[Servo]

around town the H&Rs are fine, not a complaint in the world, though as the speed increases, the setup looses composure. Small irregularities in the road become obvious, almost to the point of regret. looks much better though.

What would you suggest other than H&R's? I think this topic has been done before but I wouldn't want to buy something only to dislike what I've bought.

[noone]

What would you suggest other than H&R's? I think this topic has been done before but I wouldn't want to buy something only to dislike what I've bought.

The springs are good, its the shocks that suffer. The stiffer springs really need stiffer shocks to give better handling, with soft shocks the ride can be bouncy and unrefined. The springs tend to be the cheap part of the equation, but with fitting new springs / shocks costing in the area of $250-$400, its not something you want to pay for 2wice if it can be avoided. I'm not sure if it was like that from day 1, but seems to be getting slowly worse (not bad, just not great).

[mikepologti]

oh crap there huge! sorry guys can someone with any editing skills at all reduce these in size?

[noone]

Here are mike's pics (a lot smaller):

[mikepologti]

thanks mate.

[Jmac]

Ill post some up if you want mate, only they are boring sitting on the road shots.
Ok you have washed it mate, then did you cotton bud the engine bay????? Seriously people mega clean engine bay. I opened the bonnet and looked and looked, cleanest ive seen in a while.
cheers
Jmac

[mikepologti]

Ill post some up if you want mate, only they are boring sitting on the road shots.
Ok you have washed it mate, then did you cotton bud the engine bay????? Seriously people mega clean engine bay. I opened the bonnet and looked and looked, cleanest ive seen in a while.
cheers
Jmac

im a lil anal about how she looks sometimes

[noone]

Picked up 312mm DBA rotors. Hopefully not to long from getting installed with Fusions TT calipers / carriers, etc.

[bfeboi]

After the track day at oran park i always new that i had cooked the ferodo ds2500 pads and ebc rotors but i decided to let them be till today when i swapped the pads back to my previous ones and

anywho pics say a thousand words

[AusScare]

Holy crap those things are dead. You must've been hammering it. Is that normal???

[Blitzen]

After the track day at oran park i always new that i had cooked the ferodo ds2500 pads and ebc rotors but i decided to let them be till today when i swapped the pads back to my previous ones and

anywho pics say a thousand words

I'd be changing the brake fluid out too.

[bfeboi]

Ive been to a few track days at wakefield, eastern creek and finally oran park but, i fitted the martini fluid, ds2500 and rotors for oran park and as you all can see they got munched hard.

ive gone through 2 sets factory pads they were never this bad.... maybe i should go for ds3000 or red stuff.. but atm i think i'll be needing a new clutch soon. pick up is getting quite late

[noone]

I get the feeling that the ABS kills the brakes faster than normal. After my wakefield day my brakes were pretty brutalised, but I don't see the value in keeping the stock rotor size if you plan on further track days.

Maybe a 312 upgrade will give you better results, I found the cost of the rotors / pads to be not too dissimilar so once they're on, assuming brake feel is good, can only be a win...

[mikepologti]

i agree hence this will be my first upgrade next year (audi tt mk1 brakes all round) hmm maybe i might hold off on tracking the girl till i get my brakes sorted , those pics make me seriously think twice.

[mikepologti]

removed back seat , some upolstry, spare wheel and jack.