Handling and some other ramblings.

[marc_scirocco at sympatico.ca (marc_scirocco)]

 Tires make a huge difference.

What is on his, and what is on yours?

Get ultra performance sticky tires, and you will improve your handling. My
next tires will be something like the Goodyear Eagle F1.

Cheers.

Marc
'83 Scirocco

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org 
> [mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org] De la part de 
> Anthony Pelletier
> Envoy? : 7 septembre 2004 15:17
> ? : scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Objet : Handling and some other ramblings.
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I have a 1980 scirocco that has some pretty extensive 
> suspension mods and have some questions about getting MKI's 
> to hanlde better.  
> 
> What started this is over the weekend my friend needed a 
> truck so I loaned him my 4runner and he in turn loanded me 
> his 1985 gti with a vr-6.  (what a deal
> eh?)  Its pretty much gutted and he has bilstein w ground 
> control (eibach) springs 400# front 300# rears with the MKIII 
> "plus" suspension, and stock vr-6 15x6.5" wheels.  I was very 
> impressed with the suspension despite what everyone says 
> about vr6's being understeering pigs, I did not find this to 
> be true at all.  I am actually kind of embarassed by how 
> badly my mki handles in comparison. 
> 
> I have h&r coil overs (no idea what the spring rate is on 
> these.) suspension techniques rear swaybar, no front bar, 
> poly bushings up front 16x7" rims with toyo proxies t1s and 
> find the handling just medoicre.  Am I doing something wrong 
> here, or is the MKII suspension just that much better?  I 
> found I was able to take corners faster with far less drama 
> than I do in my rocco.  (I am not talking about all out acceleration
> here.)  Maybe I can't drive, or I've been driving a bloated 
> SUV for too long, please don't flame me, I am just looking 
> for info/opinions about what I am doing wrong here.  In the 
> rocco's defense the coilovers are probably set a little too 
> low, but I didn't think it would make that big of a difference. 
> 
> Tony
> 
> 
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