What did you do to your Polo today?

[mikepologti]

if you have photo shop, you can reduce the dpi, lowering the resolutlion and size, you can also reduce it to low jpeg format, further reducing file size.failing that like shaneth said use photo bucket.

[mozzzy_2000]

Ok so since my last post I have put the car through its paces last night & today. I feel a bit of a git but I am going to have to sheepishly retract some of my initial thoughts. Handling is nothing short of extreme. Completely flat around corners no matter what speed. Front nose diving on braking is all but eliminated and front nose lift up with rear squat on hard acceleration is also basically eliminated which seems to give a very noticable increase in straight line speed. Overall traction has gone off the charts. I was finding it very hard to get any wheel spin whatsoever under extreme conditions. This seems to have resulted in a dramatic reduction in the ESP coming on especially taking fast corners. I can now power out of corners without the ESP kicking in. Very nice.

So overall the handling is awesome and the ride comfort has not been compromised at all. Infact I'd go as far to say that its actually smoother than stock with lumps and bumps in the road being well absorbed. None of those back jaring 'wacks' you sometimes get with the stock suspension.

In regards to the ride height its still looks cool but not exactly how I would want it. Anyway the ride height has settled itself since I measured it yesterday and when I measured it today the front has lowered 20mm whilst the rear has come down 35mm. Is there any chance the springs give a different ride height with the Bilsteins rather than with the stock shocks?

Here are some pics. It doesn't look so bad in the photos due to the slope in the road but I could have sworn others who have these H&R springs have their cars sitting lower at the front? I am kinda thinking I am expecting way to much perhaps. The last pic is the car sitting in my driveway and the nose looks like its sitting up a lot but the the drive slopes down. So I am left kinda scratching my head. I wish you could see it in the "flesh". Looks a lot different than these photos suggest for some reason.

[mikepologti]

lmao by any chance did you use a sony camera?, you can see there is a lil differce but not much.maybe its my eyes playing tricks on me but i dont think it looks to bad at all.

[mozzzy_2000]

lmao by any chance did you use a sony camera?, you can see there is a lil differce but not much.maybe its my eyes playing tricks on me but i dont think it looks to bad at all.

Yeah it is a sony. How can you tell? date stamp?

Yeah the stance doesn't look like much in these pics. Not sure if its the surface either because it looks different again out on the street in the other pics. But having a look back in this thread where [-Polo GTI-] posted his pics on pg102, it looks a lot lower than mine. Perhaps its the 17" rims making the difference?
Oh well I can live with it. Handling is awesome so thats the important part.

[RhysQ]

yeah i'd say my 17's have a lot to do with it. i don't think it looks too bad at all.

[mikepologti]

yeah the date stamp, i also copyed and pasted it, photo shop can also tell which sensor took the shot what iso apeture setting etc
i wouldnt worry about it man, after you get your 17's shell look fine......looks fine now anyway imo.

[mozzzy_2000]

Yeah I'm not that fussed now. To be honest after a good drive it really seems to have levelled out somewhat. Its doesn't seem to be sitting so pronounced at the rear anymore. Either that or I have gotten used to it but measurements seem to confirm this.
I do agree it does look pretty cool sitting lower. It almost looks like it makes the car appear longer or that is the illusion its giving me.
Also another thing I have noticed is that road & tyre noise has increased but I have read that the dunlops are a noisey tyre anyway. I've never really noticed them until now. Because of the stiffer springs/shocks I'd guess.

[Blitzen]

More what I did over the weekend. I took the Pogo out and cleared out the cobwebs for a good old fashioned road trip...Friday night, I knock off from work, come home, pack, and head off to pick my mate from Mission Beach, that done, we refuel in Cairns, then head off to the Daintree National Park. Taking the twisty roads along the coast between Cairns and Port Douglas in the dark was amazing, and I got some great footage. Then up past Mossman to the Punt over the Daintree River...Missed the last ferry at midnight, so had to sleep in the car...(Got eaten alive by mozzies!!)
First thing in the morning, we cross the river, then onto some awesome twisty roads between the river and Cape Tribulation...Be very careful though, only one and a half lanes wide and dark wet patches make this tricky!!
We then Drove back to Cairns that afternoon after some activities, and crashed at a hostel for the night.
Today we headed off for some sightseeing. Turning off toward Atherton from Greenvale produced some of the best roads I have ever driven on. The Gillies Highway has about 30km of tight, twisty roads, with regular passing opportunites for slower drivers, hair pins, awesome drop in apex's, great combination's, and breath taking views. This had me grinning like a freak, and my friend getting some great footage...The speed limit through here is 80km/h, but is rarely reached...You don't need to hit it to have fun!!
Then drove to Milla Milla Falls, then, down to Parronella Park, then Back to Townsville...

All up did about 1200km, and got about 7.1km/100. Had a great weekend, and an awesome drive.



And me looking the usual figure of fitness and the textbook form of good looking...

[gjuu]

That section of road along the coast to Port Douglas is a nice bits of road - we go up there every year. I can't wait to get the polo onto it

[AusScare]

My auntie lives over the river there, we went to see her a few years back, nice area but I couldn't stand the semi-remoteness.

[Blitzen]

, nice area but I couldn't stand the semi-remoteness.

Yeah, and the bitey and stingy things that live in the water, air and on the ground up there arn't my cup of tea either!!

[jasn78]

My auntie lives over the river there, we went to see her a few years back, nice area but I couldn't stand the semi-remoteness.

yeah it is remote but my god its amazing up there, done work in cape tribulation b4 and a night walk through the rainforest is something else

[AusScare]

yeah it is remote but my god its amazing up there, done work in cape tribulation b4 and a night walk through the rainforest is something else

Funny you say that, my auntie is a tour guide in cape trib and does night walks

I went on one while I was there, pretty cool stuff.

[PeterHBne]

Cape Trib and the whole Far North is fantastic. I lived in Cairns back in the early 80's when the whole road blocking protest thing was going on at Cape Trib. It was a goat track then. I believe it is now all bitumen as is the road to Cooktown

[mikepologti]

well installed my forge tip and intercooler to throttle body hose, (well 99% of it anyway) i ran out of light yesterday, so ill finish it this morning. took me about 40 mins to remove the air box and air intake bout another 15 mins to remove the oem tip after that, 1hr to get the tip on the turbo (im a perfectionist and that thing was a pain in the a$$,.......and the bolt of doom, as ive come to affectionatly call it took 3 fricken hours to put back on, easily the hardest part of the entire procedure. ive got to work with my brother today so i may evan have to putthe rest back together this afternoon.