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Offline DOA

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Re: Please help me spend my money wisely!
« Reply #10 on: 18 November 2009, 18:11 »
Induction kit - £140 - Not worth the gains/cost if you even get any gains.
Panel filter - £28.00 - As above and others recomendations, you wont notice the difference if any.
Front engine mount - £120.00 - Bloody expensive that and not really needed for a first track car, save it for when you need the last tenths during gear changes.
Rear engine mount - £110.00
Gearbox mount - £65.00
Silicone hose kit - £100.00 - Not worth it at the moment but a sound reliability addition once you have decided you will be keeping at it.
Oil Pan windage tray - £82.50 - These are 20 quid on ebay from veedubmachine (seller id lesbray or lesbrey) and a good addition.
Baffled sump - £251.90 - Not really worth it until you fit trackday rubber and get the suspension fully sorted.
Braded brake lines (set) - £97.90 - Again sounds expensive but worth it with some good quality fluid (which you havent costed in).
Tarox front discs - £133.20 - As mentioned above, get a 280mm brake setup with new OEM discs and pads. Well worth it!
Tarox front pads - £56.70
AP Coilovers - £318.00 - Unless you can drive a similarly equiped car on track, dont skimp on cheep coilovers, the damping can be pretty shocking and may ruin the experience although they do give you the option to set the cornerweights,,,,, which you probably wouldnt notice at this stage.
Weitec coilovers - £339.47 - As above but heard much better things about these than the AP units and they are at least manufactured by KW so should be reasonably well damped.
Powerflex bushes (front set) - £100.00 - You can get much cheeper sets from GSF's ebay site under the bugpak banner. Ive used them on 2 golfs now and cant complain about the quality and defo wont complain about the improvements to the cars handling. Good addition.

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For my money then, Id say Full front brake upgrade (dont forget the master cylinder), braided hoses and decent fluid, windage tray (since you will be taking the sump off and will want/need a new sump gasket which is built in), full bush kit (including the rear, you may as well!) and canvass opinions on forums as to the best low price coilover compromise for track use. I suspect you will be told Koni adjustable dampers and eibach springs though which I have on my own car and seems pretty good on the road but I suspect the springs arent really stiff enough for track use. Add in a set of roll bars next time though and they should be fine and you will be ready to start looking at improving the cooling and modding/replacing the engine.

Out of interest, have you thought about adding some camber at the front and maybe a tad of toe out at all as you should really set the front end up again after changing the front suspension, certainly with the mods you have planned anyway, and they can be done when you put it all together. I found a very cheep (£30 tops) little camber gauge on ebay a while back thats as accurate as some proper kit I have used before for setting the camber and you can make toe gauges for very little money which are very effective if used carefully.

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Re: Please help me spend my money wisely!
« Reply #11 on: 19 November 2009, 19:28 »
do you need bargain bucket seats? some in the for sale section  :wink:

Offline JonLeeper

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Re: Please help me spend my money wisely!
« Reply #12 on: 20 November 2009, 09:11 »
Nice plug but unfortunatly I've just bought my drivers one.  I also really need the XL, as I am a "large" chap! ;) 

Horney just buy them, they are what you want and look good for the price, you only live once and when your time is up, it's up.