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I decided it was time for a little upgrade.

New knuckles:


Bushings to flip the tie rods: (Bump steer correction.)




Big groove in knuckle:

Gets big snap ring:

For new front bearing:


Shade tree engineered press:

Then the new hub:






A few other parts: (Control arms, bushings, ball joints, ball joint extenders, camber/caster mounts.)

Extender:

Mocked up:

Camber/caster mount:

Front coil over: (It is cleaner now)

OEM mount:

Everything above the spring is replaced by:

Before:


After:





Front is done, now the rear:

Something is missing?

Here it is.

A little persuasion required:

I win:

Now to fill this:

With this:

The urethane bushing has fingers that fill the voids in the OEM rubber bushing:



Everything is back together and corner weights are set. Alignment is on Wednesday; after that I can test it more aggressively.

Yay camber plates!

/jealous

GC coils i'm guessing by seeing the GC camber plates? Are those RE-01rs?

A few local MK3/MK4 guys have found their cars like some extra weight over the rear, full tanks of gas, and one even left his spare in, just to keep the rear in check at AutoX.

What sort of power does that put down? I'm guessing it's a 2.slow with the M45?

Coils are Bilstein PSS. I am using the camber plates for caster. The A3 and earlier have plenty of camber adjustment but barely 2 deg of caster. I will still be less than +5 degrees caster.

I run in full street trim, stock spare etc... Yes RE-01R's. This will be the last summer I get out of them, then some new RE-11's.

2.0 with M45. Puts down about the same as a 12v VR6 with less weight and a flatter torque curve. I am running an 02j with Eurospec 6 speed conversion; the 020 was just shrapnel waiting to happen.

I thought those plates looked funny, lol. Posting late FTL.

Tomorrow I'm codriving a 2008 MKV because my ECU froze during an APR reflash and had to be sent ro them.

An instructor who was in both cars said the 2008 was much more responsive, it sits lower from the factory than my 4x4 06. I've never been able to top a local in an 08, now I will be able to see why...

Won't matter as I will be STX once my car is up and running....

Looks great Mike.

I did some work on my Jeep too. New front springs and Bilstein shocks. Definite improvement.

More road noise with the camber/caster plates.

Looks just like it did last time you saw it Paul. (Unless you know what to look for.)

Alignment will be done Wednesday. Then I get get to see what it will do.

Front roll center is about 3" higher and there is near 1 degree more camber gain.


Update:
I have had some thime to play now the alignment is done.
Wow! The front just sticks. I have a "test" road near that I could run at the edge. (Starting to slip and slide.)
I can now run the same road at 5 to 10mph faster without reacing the slip and slide point.
This should shave 10's of seconds off my lap time at PIR.