Louis19's Build Thread

[louis19]

Don't fuss about with measuring wheelarch heights - you NEED to use corner weight scales.

It makes a huge difference!

For now it'll just get adjustments via height to the arches and a alignment. At some point in the near future I'd like to get it to a shop to have it properly set up and adjusted accordingly but is it still a daily driver so as much as I'd like to get it done, I'm also not in a huge rush. Even with it setup the way it is currently is a huge improvement over the previous setup.

[seangti]

great to hear they're in, now to go enjoy the set up in the hinterland. It's pretty complete now isn't it? Brake, tyres, wheels, suspension, all to support the go fast....

Karl has corner weights, may be worth a chat or drive to brisbanes northside for a mates rates corner weighing. I think my local shop is around $300 for corner weighting, though don't quote me as I had more done with a price to match

[louis19]

great to hear they're in, now to go enjoy the set up in the hinterland. It's pretty complete now isn't it? Brake, tyres, wheels, suspension, all to support the go fast....

Karl has corner weights, may be worth a chat or drive to brisbanes northside for a mates rates corner weighing. I think my local shop is around $300 for corner weighting, though don't quote me as I had more done with a price to match

Thanks mate, feels great to have them in finally. As you say I think I've covered most bases with the big ticket items now, just add ons now to complement whats already on the car.

As for the suspension, I will get in contact with Karl and find out what the costing is like. Perhaps Ill get it all done in one hit, alignment and corner weighting so I know the car is setup correctly and good to hit the track.

[seangti]

Karl had his car set-up at Accurate Suspension so he can probably give you a better indication on price. Accurate aren't far from me.

[louis19]

Another couple of additions to the polo today, some LCA bushes before the alignment this week. I went for the anti lift super pro's in the rear of the arms and Gav had some Powerflex black front bushes so we put them in too.

Thanks to Gavs speedy hands we knocked it out in a couple of hours. Sorry no photos this time, again due to Gavs speedy hands.

Could certainly feel the difference in the hour drive home but it was also raining for most of the trip so it will be easier to tell the true difference with some dry road and the alignment sorted.

[louis19]

Hey gang, heres a quick snippet of me and the polo lining up some of the cars on Saturday afternoon at QR. This is just some of the races, would've taken to long to edit them all.

https://youtu.be/Fq94Sxfn7-Y

[Eddy]

Hoyhoy.

So that's racing.

[louis19]

Hoyhoy.

So that's racing.

Not the usual way a polo races but it's another form of it at least

[HAR80N]

woot woot polo power goes awesome

[grandturismo]

Have u had the car on the dyno recently?

[louis19]

Have u had the car on the dyno recently?

I haven't had it on a dyno ever Al.

[grandturismo]

Louis19's Build Thread

I'm not sure what your plans are with power but you could get a baseline number and attend this with me for ****s and giggles. I'd be really interested to see what power you're producing.

https://www.facebook.com/events/682766691826617/

If that doesn't work, there's a dyno day on the March 19th and they are a few short for this to happen.

[louis19]

I'm not sure what your plans are with power but you could get a baseline number and attend this with me for ****s and giggles. I'd be really interested to see what power you're producing.

https://www.facebook.com/events/682766691826617/

If that doesn't work, there's a dyno day on the March 19th and they are a few short for this to happen.

Thanks mate, I did see that event the other day actually. Most the polos seem to float around that 155fwkw so based off that I'd be going in knowing roughly what I'm making. Would be nice to have an exact figure and a piece of paper to show it though.

[rgvlee]

My stage 2 made 142fwkw on a hot day recently. It was 52fwkw up on stock, there may be more with timing I don't know.
I would have thought easily 160-170 with a stage 3 and k04.

[vwthunder]

Thanks mate, I did see that event the other day actually. Most the polos seem to float around that 155fwkw so based off that I'd be going in knowing roughly what I'm making. Would be nice to have an exact figure and a piece of paper to show it though.

I think you are wrong with that figure, you need to go alone and see and show us what power the polos can make