Pros and cons to removing my arb ? Mk4

[Bennmk3]

Lowered my mk4 golf and my arb is hitting on my driveshaft
What are the pros and cons on removing the arb?

Ben

[tweed]

Pros?  cons a lot more body roll and less grip

However I've heard people removing front and fitting stiffer rear anti roll bars on the torsion bar rear end on saxo vts. Was meant to give better turn in on an already lift off oversteer car.

I never bothered trying that out when I had mine because I thought it was a stupid idea.

[GOLF-MK3-GTI]

Lowered my mk4 golf and my arb is hitting on my driveshaft
What are the pros and cons on removing the arb?

Ben

Either buy longer drop links, or buy an adjustable ARB. One of them will solve the issue 

Right some people say use longer & some say use shorter wtf??

Have a read: http://uk-mkivs.net/forums/p/289268/2995482.aspx

[Granta Gti]

A friend had the same problem so we removed the ARB and in theory it should be more unstable but cause it was really low on stiff coilovers it still held the road very well and hardly any body roll due to the stiff coilover set up

[LakerLover]

How low can you go before its's an issue?? mines gotta be 40mm and no trouble with arb! Thanks

[Granta Gti]

They say any more than 40mm I'm at 35mm over big dips in the road you can hear it catch occasionally

[LakerLover]

They say any more than 40mm I'm at 35mm over big dips in the road you can hear it catch occasionally

Thats ok then, aint heard no knocking and its been at 40mm for 8months Thanks!

[dom]

Lowered my mk4 golf and my arb is hitting on my driveshaft
What are the pros and cons on removing the arb?

Ben

You'd be better off swapping your arb for one that goes under the driveshaft. You could try adjustable droplinks but they don't always work, likewise aftermarket arb's that have bigger loops don't always work either

[Bennmk3]

Because the contact between the arb and the shaft is not constant and loud I'm swaying to go with longer drop links ?
Where's the best place to get them ?

Lowered my mk4 golf and my arb is hitting on my driveshaft
What are the pros and cons on removing the arb?

Ben

You'd be better off swapping your arb for one that goes under the driveshaft. You could try adjustable droplinks but they don't always work, likewise aftermarket arb's that have bigger loops don't always work either

[mcgee9t2]

Have no arb on mine and cant say i notice any difference.

gonna fit the vrs arb cause i can get them cheep off a mate and going to fit rarb and poly bush the whole car to see how much it improves. but old car standard arb and a few of the bushes polybushed = new car no arb and standard bushes so far.