
Originally Posted by
sambb
Can't recall what springs he had, definitely not soft/stock. It steadily morphed into a very focused track car and he'd have had decent track worthy springs in there because I found this pic pretty late in his build thread. I remember thinking the same thing because the before and after was pretty dramatic. If you're going to stick with 250's I don't know if I'd run bar-less. Thing is, once the inside rear is off the deck it doesn't matter anymore if you have a standard rear beam, rear beam with 24mm bar or a zero torsion beam - it is then up to the fronts to be able to support all the roll force being put through the car. You can see he's got a lot of rear roll stiffness. I can tell you polo rear beams are floppy things and usually there's a lot of droop in the inside rear before it lifts off even with say a 20mm rear bar. His inside rear has barely dropped at all suggesting that he's got a lot of rear roll stiffness. The amount of compression on his outside front would be pretty extreme probably nearly peeling the tyre off the rim and for sure it'd hit the stops if he went over an undulation mid corner like that and then probably spit you off the road.
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