In my quest for handling (now that my quest for power's temporarily been satisfied!), I have begun the painstaking search for a good suspension setup for my beloved GTi.
Having pretty much decided against coilovers, I'm now looking into matched spring/shock sets like the H&R cup kit, and Weitec's similar setups.
Particularly, I'm looking for someone who makes a set up * specifically for our 1.8T (or just our chassis?...) cars.
If I'm not mistaken the HR cup kit for the 1.8T Golf/GTis are matched for our specific corner weights (or something like that)... right? Sort of like a properly tuned set of coilovers, only they're not coilovers per se.
(someone correct me if I'm wrong! -- I'm still ignorant about suspension components etc.)
Anyway, that said, I'm (duh) looking for suggestions, recommendations, and critical analysis of your matched spring/shock set.
Oh yeah, and if anyone knows of a good web site explaining (in relative detail) the basic workings of suspension in our (or in fact, any) cars, do link it up!
Any help is much appreciated... as the folk in the suspension tuning page don't seem to be too knowledgable or willing to help.
AD
[Modified by AD, 10:34 AM 11-29-2001]
Having pretty much decided against coilovers, I'm now looking into matched spring/shock sets like the H&R cup kit, and Weitec's similar setups.
Particularly, I'm looking for someone who makes a set up * specifically for our 1.8T (or just our chassis?...) cars.
If I'm not mistaken the HR cup kit for the 1.8T Golf/GTis are matched for our specific corner weights (or something like that)... right? Sort of like a properly tuned set of coilovers, only they're not coilovers per se.
(someone correct me if I'm wrong! -- I'm still ignorant about suspension components etc.)
Anyway, that said, I'm (duh) looking for suggestions, recommendations, and critical analysis of your matched spring/shock set.
Oh yeah, and if anyone knows of a good web site explaining (in relative detail) the basic workings of suspension in our (or in fact, any) cars, do link it up!
Any help is much appreciated... as the folk in the suspension tuning page don't seem to be too knowledgable or willing to help.

AD
[Modified by AD, 10:34 AM 11-29-2001]