i got weitec coilovers, i have removed them now because with it did not handle as well with them on. there was not enough height adjustment(too low) and the dampers were too soft which made it bouncy at higher speeds. i just swapped back to my eibach 30mm springs and bilstein dampers, IMO they are the perfect choice for "street". if you lower the front anymore than 30mm the wishbones are pointing up which is bad, it stresses the cv joints and track rods etc. and causes more understeer (unless you put the front setup from a TT/R32 which has cast wishbones/and bearing carriers with lower roll centres) . not to mention lack of bump travel from the firmer springs which just throw you about the road when you encounter some potholes or rough bits. also i could not get the rear end up high enough with the coils to promote any rake and keep the front pinned down so at high speeds it felt twitchy, and often the front end was lifting more often on accellertion, especially if i had anything in the boot because that would just give me reverse rake straight away and transfer alot of weight to the rear of the car.
and the only reason i even decided to go for coils was so i could set the ride height perfectly and have the car sitting level, just a bit lower so it looked better (i know
) but now i have realised good looks come at a price, and i'd take handling over looks anyday. i went out on an airstrip with the coilovers fitted and it really did corner flat and turn in really sharp, but brittish roads are not perfectly flat, infact far from it! there is millions of potholes now from the harsh winter that we are not used to and they are not getting filled in fast enough.
the spacers were just to widen the stance a bit, purely for looks. it brings the wheels flush with the arches. stance is all the rage nowadays, tuck is so last year, poke is for the low and slow gang and i am "flush"
thanks for the compliment! i am happy with how the car looks now. can't beat the anniversary look IMO
plans to re dyno, since the intake manifold? it has already been done on the uk-tdi-dyno day, it made less power than previously but so did all the other cars. overall mine was the most powerful out of the 4 cars there with the same setup (hybrid 17, FMIC, PD130, mapping) i don't know wether the intake is down to that or not
here are he 2 graphs i got from the other weekend:
i'm not sure what the dyno operator was doing here, and why the power come in like that. it didn't on a few other runs but they were 1-2 hp less top end so they gave me this printout as it's the highest bhp.
and from another dyno on the same day:
i do want to get it re-dynoed somewhere else soon though, perhaps on a "known" dyno so i can compare what the intake manifold has done.