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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: jayc on 17 July 2009, 01:31

Title: mk3 roll bar on a mk2?
Post by: jayc on 17 July 2009, 01:31

may be a stupid question, but does the mk3 arb fit the mk2 subframe? more so the wishbones?

how about the rear?

thanks chaps.
jay :laugh:

Title: Re: mk3 roll bar on a mk2?
Post by: danny_p on 17 July 2009, 01:45

subframe yes  wishbones no

Title: Re: mk3 roll bar on a mk2?
Post by: rubjonny on 17 July 2009, 10:51

MK3 arb fits as do wishbones, however the mk3 5 stud arb wont fit mk2/mk3 4 stud wishbones and vice versa
a MK3 4 stud arb will fit the subby and MK2 wishbones, bit chunkier than stock MK2 as well

Title: Re: mk3 roll bar on a mk2?
Post by: jayc on 24 July 2009, 01:00

thankyou :)

Title: Re: mk3 roll bar on a mk2?
Post by: danny_p on 24 July 2009, 01:25

get isues with wheel ocation within the arch if you run mk3 wishbones with mk2 hubs dont you ?  wel with gti stuff anyway

Title: Re: mk3 roll bar on a mk2?
Post by: rubjonny on 24 July 2009, 10:02

Yeah with 5 stud wishbones + 4 stud bearing carriers the wheel ends up further forward or back in the wheel arch, as the balljoint is offset different.
4 stud MK3 wishbones are fine to use though, but this will give you widetrack so track rods + shafts would also be needed.  Passat 4 stud wishbones work too, but the roll bar may not fit though. It seems it depends who you ask! Was a recent argument about it on CGTI, Andy947 recons it fits and some other guys say it wont. I'd trust Andy as he knows his stuff, but I'm not going to say either way unless I have tried it myself.  bIts a good upgrade if it does fit as the Passat bar is proper chunky :)

As a side note if you use Passat 5 stud wishbones you can use a 4 stud shape roll bar, so if you wanted 5 stud but already have an uprated eibach/h&r roll bar you can do it that way.  Oh and if you want 5 stud narrow track, the early Passat VR6 used 4 stud bearing carrier with a 5 stud hub pressed in, and different 280mm discs to suit. Just need to fit 5 stud outer C/Vs to your old shafts.