I had the SRS springs, bilstein HD's and SRS rear bar on my '91 GLI for a long time and it was a _fantastic_ setup. Smooth riding as stock, better handling than the H&R/Bilstein+Neuspeed bars I had on my '88 GTI. However, things got even better when I added a big front bar to the shine setup. With the big rear bar, I could get the car to oversteer by lifting throttle, and turn-in was fantastic, but the car understeered badly in a constant radius corner. With the big front bar, the car was neutral around a constant radius. Very nice.
IMHO, the shine stuff is well made, but they're just flat WRONG about the front bar. The car was way faster around corners with the big autotech hollow front bar. So go ahead and get all the SRS stuff, but definitely throw on a big front bar while you're down there. On 2 Jul 2002 at 23:53, Chris Franson wrote: > on 7/2/2002 10:51 PM, R Blake wrote: > > Also, digging around on the net today revealed a H&H bar set up from Rapid > > Parts that looked interesting. Anyone have experience with this? > The H&H rear bar is a clone of the Shine and Carrera bars. I can't remember > whose is the original and whose is the copy. > Personally, I've always favored the big front swaybar, which, contrary to > common wisdom, really does reduce understeer by improving the front tires' > contact patches. If you're willing to use sufficiently stiff springs, less > bar is necessary, on either end. > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > A2-16v mailing list > [email protected] > http://maillist.myip.org/mailman/listinfo/a2-16v
