What did you do to your Polo today?

[kaanage]

greg, i dont by any means drive a ''hard core'' car, and yet im actually struggling to think when my car was actually pleasant to drive....

I'll give you a drive of mine next time we meet. It's nice and comfy with the tall skinny tyres.

[Buller_Scott]

oh man, im still not digging it - bumps that have my wallet freaking out in my polo, the little nissan micra goes "harrup!".

lol. i wouldnt do too much differently other than the fact that i've driven my car, and now im driving a plush a-b car, and knowing car critics, the micra is probably HARSH on their scale, haha!

i wont lie... the fk/koni set up that i've got going on is more SOFT on the soft side, yet more matched when you wick up the strut rebound stiffness.... interesting.

i've been playing gran turismo for 13 years, and you're supposed to go harder on back than front... this setup has educated me otherwise.

[csimpson]

Did you manage to measure them? Sorry I didn't postback last night.
Why didn't you get the SEAT style solid bushes for the rear

Here you go mate, measurements. Let me know if you need any others.

I changed out my front anti-roll bar links today for new ones, car rides a bit better and quieter over bumps. Can't wait to change my LCA rear bushes though, I can see daylight through them. Also fitted my Whiteline RSB again and hooked in an auxiliary 3.5mm adapter, this one.

Amazing how a few minor changes can make the car fun to drive again.

Edit: Pictures of my new LCA rear bushes. I don't think they're the SEAT model but they're more solid than the ones in my car at the moment, that's for sure.

[kaanage]

Thanks for that - it looks like the MkIV Golf front LCA bushes are compatible!
I still think you'd be better going for the SEAT rear LCA bushes as I'm betting your front ones are currently in much better condition than the rears.

As for my Polo, it got washed , the engine torque arm swapped from standard to one with the polyureathane bush, rear seats removed and loaded with tools and track tyres

Getting the car up to swap the torque arms was a pain as I found that the stupid front valence is too low to use car ramps directly , even at stock non-GTi height so I had to muck about and jerry rig a couple of ramp extenders

[csimpson]

Thanks for that - it looks like the MkIV Golf front LCA bushes are compatible!
I still think you'd be better going for the SEAT rear LCA bushes as I'm betting your front ones are currently in much better condition than the rears.

As for my Polo, it got washed , the engine torque arm swapped from standard to one with the polyureathane bush, rear seats removed and loaded with tools and track tyres

Getting the car up to swap the torque arms was a pain as I found that the stupid front valence is too low to use car ramps directly , even at stock non-GTi height so I had to muck about and jerry rig a couple of ramp extenders

No problems. I'm going to see if I can find a picture of the SEAT bushes to compare -- can anyone help me out? -- and if they're significantly better built I'll pick them up instead.

Do you only put the poly bush torque arm on for track? I know it's a pretty quick swap-over, but I already like the stiffness of mine for day-to-day driving.

I just use a couple of blocks of 2x4 wood at the end of my car ramps, it extends the distance enough that there's (almost) no scraping.

[noone]

Have a look on the Awesome GTI site, I also have a set of the Whiteline ones in the for sale section, for comparison reasons, or you can buy them pretty cheap.

[csimpson]

Looks like VW decided the original bushing was too weak, and redesigned it. I can recognise the original as what's in my car at the moment, and I have the redesign to put in:

Fitting instructions control arm bushing to VW Polo 9N

New ones look much much stronger. Obviously not entirely solid like the Whiteline poly ones, though.

[VWindahouse]

Pretty much gutted the entire rear end from the front seats back

Plus selling a heap of gear for the polo here

http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/foru...tml#post775559

[vwthunder]

Pretty much gutted the entire rear end from the front seats back

Plus selling a heap of gear for the polo here

http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/foru...tml#post775559

Seat Sport intercooler upgrade ??

[kaanage]

No problems. I'm going to see if I can find a picture of the SEAT bushes to compare -- can anyone help me out? -- and if they're significantly better built I'll pick them up instead.

Just imagine the new ones you have with no voids at all - that's the only difference.

Do you only put the poly bush torque arm on for track? I know it's a pretty quick swap-over, but I already like the stiffness of mine for day-to-day driving.

Not an option with a diesel - the vibrations were driving me mental on the way to the track and back plus dropping my kid off to school today. It's getting changed back tonight.

Looks like VW decided the original bushing was too weak, and redesigned it. I can recognise the original as what's in my car at the moment, and I have the redesign to put in:

Fitting instructions control arm bushing to VW Polo 9N

New ones look much much stronger. Obviously not entirely solid like the Whiteline poly ones, though.

It looks like the new front LCA bushes a half way to the SEAT ones. Any idea of when the new ones were introduced?



Managed to up my fuel consumption to 13.5l/100km yesterday plus did a bit of autocrossing at the end of Phillip Island's main straight.