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This and three others turned up in the mail today...Comment
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Consider me jealous.Cheap, Fast, Reliable. Choose two.Comment
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What was the damage all up?
Specs?
Gavin promised us details and left us hanging08 9n3 Polo GTI
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Cost me $1950. They are stiff but I asked for track settings. I bought an extra pair of springs for the rear but to be fair I am not sure if they were an improvement as the back feels a bit loose. This could also be the tyres past their sell by date too.Originally posted by rgvlee View Post
Give the cost of imported kits and these have adjustable top mounts. I don't think they are silly expensive.
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Hoyhoy.
They look the goods.Hooroo.Comment
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Fully adjustable compression and rebound aswell? i.e., are we comparing to say a set of KW V3s?Originally posted by h100vw View Post08 9n3 Polo GTI
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Dirt cheap IMO. If my Bilsteins fail, I know where I'll be calliingOriginally posted by h100vw View Post
So were the extra springs the softer ones that you ended up running?
I always thought that would be a better setup than what you described initially.
Are the rears older or more worn than the fronts? I randomly swap rims around each time I track the car so I haven't had problems like that.Resident grumpy old fart
VW - Metallic Paint, Radial Tyres, Laminated Windscreen, Electric Windows, VW Alloy Wheels, Variable Geometry Exhaust Driven Supercharger, Direct Unit Fuel Injection, Adiabatic Ignition, MacPherson Struts front, Torsion Beam rear, Coil Springs, Hydraulic Dampers, Front Anti-Roll Bar, Disc Brakes, Bosch ECU, ABSComment
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My tyres are shagged really 2 mm to the wear bars. Over 2 years since they were made, pretty hard rubber now.
Yeah got softer springs in the back. 4kg/cm From 6
Only single way adjustable. So not V3 a like. I am not dedicated enough to mess around getting them set right. So less is more for me
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Ah well,
So mine were $1550 mailed. Gav was good enough to pay for development costs...
Springs are 7kg front, 4kg rear. As I've said elsewhere springs are cheap if you want to replace them. Josh at MCA said he'd consider these rates tarmac rally rates for the polo.
The shocks are length and height adjustable, camber adjustment on the top plates. The shock bodies and shafts are massive, bump stops are tiny. Pillow top shock mount.
Digressive rate, four port piston, gas charged. I assume emulsion.
On the adjustment; they have a single adjuster which adjusts a needle in a seat on a combined low speed compression and rebound circuit. Because diverting fluid from low to high speed affects both circuits, it's really more of a combined, overall rate adjustment. Not sure if the needle is a plain taper or corrected shape... The piston is fairly large, and I'd rather have a well tuned shock with no adjustment rather than the other way around.
I'll take more pictures as they go in. The Konis look anorexic next to them.Comment
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Wow - that is officially dirt cheap, IMO
More pictures would be great - yours don't seem to be inverted like some of the other MCA struts I've seen pictures of.
Do you have any pics of the rear dampers?
The massive shaft certainly suggests an emulsion since there doesn't look to be much room for a twin tube design.
Do you or Gavin know if their springs have enough margin to run packers for track use without danger of yielding?Last edited by kaanage; 19-02-2015, 09:05 AM.Resident grumpy old fart
VW - Metallic Paint, Radial Tyres, Laminated Windscreen, Electric Windows, VW Alloy Wheels, Variable Geometry Exhaust Driven Supercharger, Direct Unit Fuel Injection, Adiabatic Ignition, MacPherson Struts front, Torsion Beam rear, Coil Springs, Hydraulic Dampers, Front Anti-Roll Bar, Disc Brakes, Bosch ECU, ABSComment
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Explain packers to me Greg, not sure what you mean by that term??Comment
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Yeah that price is mint.08 9n3 Polo GTI
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The box.
Containing two of everything you see here and some stickers and generalised instructions.
Front shock base showing gad fill point
Length adjustment
Seal head, spring seat and bump stop
Top spring seat
Strut top plate and adjuster
Rear shock bottom
Seal head and bump stop
Adjuster
Rear spring seat
Top spring seat, this is apparently a light transition fit in the mount point... We shall see.
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They look unreal! I wouldn't want to put them in the car and get them dirty when they look that good
2006 GTI Polo - Big Turbo Build - Louis19's Build ThreadComment
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