Todays Suspension upgrade courtesy of E-Bay and Fiddly bits.

[Oneofthegreats]

A good setting for a street driven mk1 is standard toe setting & around 0.8-1 degree of negative camber.

Good turn in & not harse on the tyre's. I've set all of my mk1's like this & have never had any problem's.

I've got to say that, I don't think the back will settle as much as you think. From all of my spring's & spring's I've fitted to all sort's of cars it's normally about 15mm.

Excellent write up too!!

[Peter Jones]

Yeah, I'm not sure about the ride height. My other golf has the same shocks and springs and it's sitting level.

The springs are King springs - 30mm lowered but these are from a new batch using a different steel (according to the packaging.)

The front seems to be a bit lower than the other golf too.

I'll just wait and see how it goes for now.

What is the standard toe in for a golf BTW?

Pete

[Jarred]

nice little write up pete. This will come in handy the next time I put new suspension in! haha.

I will be insterested to see how you go fitting the new booster and rear brakes.

[gldgti]

standard toe setting is a teeny bit of toe out. just barely a little.

[Peter Jones]

Figured out the rear ride height. I'd reused the lower spring seats from the old shocks and installed the the same way they were installed on the original shocks - Upside down!

I'm not sure why they were upside down on the originals, the front always rode very high, perhaps the back had sagged and this was a cheap way to raise the back to match?

I realised when I discovered new spring seats in the bottom of the boxes that the shocks came in. A silly mistake, but easily fixed.

Here's a shot of the difference. Correct on the left and upside down on the right.





And a shot of the car with the shocks fixed up.

[ontarv]

looks much bettera
must drive like a new car
ride hight looks good too