Club G40 Forum
Technical => Chassis & Braking => Topic started by: djtez on December 27, 2009, 07:23:39 pm
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I was wndering if anyone made a short throw steering rack?
as i'd much prefer my steering to be more snappy.!
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300 mm steering wheel is much cheaper
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300 mm steering wheel is much cheaper
Probably not much cheaper if you factor in a decent momo or similar wheel and a fitting boss. Circa £150 new. I dont know if any one has ever produced a quick rack but a smaller steering wheel will only give you sligthly quicker steering in terms of hand movement, it wont get your vehicle in any tighter than a standard wheel.
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Thts a shame because i think the polo suffers from a lot of steering rotations..
my friends manta has quick rack and is simply far better...
i wonder if any of the genius's on here could fabricate one ;)
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got ppp setup :)
wishbone converson.. with kw's
polybushd arm's..
the polo holds well in the front end.
the back not so much..
if a had a quicker rack then i could catch lift off oversteer , whch g40's suffer badly from, alot easier..
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Might be worthwhile investing in an LSD or ATB diff then to compliment those other mods ;D
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or stop full on lifting off...
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is there any way to modify the original?
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Has no one ever looked into making some sort of inderpendant rear suspention to replace the rear beam on g40's??
I know of a chap who makes a setup for the fwd escorts much like the maxi escorts used to run?
If i could find the pics ive got somewere id show what i mean!
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seen pictures of it many moons ago, on a berg cup car
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yer its a big thing to do if ur serious on the fwd escort thing as they suffer from lift of understeer with big hp and track sorted suspention!
Trying to find the pics i have of it but struggling!
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i have cup gear box with lsd :)
polo is just so rear end happy and sometimes it just snakes up the road till it straightens its self
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Triangulate and turret the rear axle. Can also sort a better rear arb setup similar to nick wilson's setup.
Also look into spring rates at the rear if your suffering lift off oversteer... that or read the road ahead so you shouldn't have to. Being fast is being progressive - learnt that on a high performance course many moons ago, lol.
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yup, progressive driving combined with right car = quickest from A to B ;)
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triangulate ..? ftom rear hub to roughly middle of beam . . i'msure a long time ago isaw that on club polo
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(http://i562.photobucket.com/albums/ss70/mk2sp/Rearaxle5.jpg)
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hmm! whose car is that?
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^^^^ Thats a dude thats over on ClubGTI.com who's building a mk2 berg cup 'style' motor.... Sure its fine iirc hes got a build thread over on cgti anyway..
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i was thinkin summat like on this arosa for mine,
(http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii119/lalben/fully-fitted.jpg)
(http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii119/lalben/droplink2.jpg)
(http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii119/lalben/droplink1.jpg)
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Not a bad idea that lance, do you know if there are any roll bars that would be near the correct size in terms of fitment to a polo axel?
The triangular set up that is shown would still be superior in my opinion and give much better control over axel stiffness due to such fine tuning of the tension, however it would be harder to engineer than the arosa set up and probably only something that a true track car would gain any real benefit from!
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so a triangular setup would help! is there any reason why no one has done it yet on a polo as it cant be that hard i quess????
http://www.clubgti.com/forum/showthread.php?t=191964
and that's the link to mk2sp mk2 golf build on clubgti.
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pictures from (goof mk2 race car build on clubgti) http://www.clubgti.com/forum/showthread.php?t=187561 (http://www.clubgti.com/forum/showthread.php?t=187561)
(http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j276/goofVW/P1010039-1.jpg)
(http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j276/goofVW/P1010001-1.jpg)
(http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j276/goofVW/P1010003.jpg)
(http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j276/goofVW/P10100282.jpg)
(http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j276/goofVW/IMGP0031.jpg)
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is there any reason why no one has done it yet on a polo as it cant be that hard i quess????
Im sure one of the old timers could tell you it probably has been done in the past but i guess its not a main stream modification due to the fact its quite a lot of hassel for what might only be a tiny improvment on an everyday car, if you are preparing your polo for the track then it might be something to look into though..
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I know of a polo with a triangulate rear axle ;) :P
Main pain in the arse on the Polo is you need a centre exit exhaust... which means getting rid of the spare wheel well. If there's demand Polo PP could do it as a kit/exchange axle basis. But due to the other changes needed, I guess 99% of people don't want it.
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that design on the rolf is the official vag rally/race upgrade. I have an etka schematic one one of the comps/laptops/hard drives so I can stick it up if needed.
I know heg123 triangulated his rally car. His blog thing on club polo has the pics.
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Shit did not think about the exhaust kinda annoying as my G40 is a track car and ill have no problem with removing the spare wheel well but i just brought a full ppp system!
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I also paid for ppp exhaust system and dont wanna go back.
could thre be made a strut brace to fit from hub to hub on the rear with ppp exhaust in mind..
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I have an etka schematic one one of the comps/laptops/hard drives so I can stick it up if needed.
Would be interested in seeing that if you can find it....
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Shit did not think about the exhaust kinda annoying as my G40 is a track car and ill have no problem with removing the spare wheel well but i just brought a full ppp system!
I'll have a measure up once I get my car back then if a few people want them...
Not sure how to sell it, as an axle exchange (very expensive to post) and all axles would need to be straight, aquablasted, and then welded, then coated/painted.
Or the easier option, sell it as a kit of parts- but would require somone competent to weld them on.
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Sounds interesting ;)