I don't mind the stock ride height, just wish the stock shocks weren't Sachs. I have one that's already shit the bed at 36k miles and my old car felt like both fronts were gone at 20k miles. The Bilsteins seem incorrectly valved for our cars with fragile shafts, so it's really just the Koni reds that seem to be suited to our stock height.
This is R springs (from a DSG car) on my manual GTI. I think the weight difference negated the slight drop the R has vs the GTI, but no matter, it was a fun experiment and I am enjoying the set-up both on the road and on the track. I have them on Koni yellows. No complaints (ok, other than wheel gap I guess). Need to get my Apex wheels mounted!
Wait, manual cars have softer springs than dsg? I can't imagine that's going to hold with the Mk8, where we're the only market to get the manual R, they're just gonna throw whatever they have laying around on there.
No, I get it. I'm just saying that we can kiss that variability good bye for the manual NA Mk8 R's, they're not going to make different spring rates for such a rare car.
Ha, wouldn't surprise me. The Mk8 gets significantly stiffer springs, but they'll probably find many ways to short the manual cars, aside from the obvious. I really am leaning more towards just tuning the daylights out of this car rather than moving to a Mk8, I like everything about it, aside from the ability to slide it around turns and melt rear tires.
Well I'd have to strap that rear one to the bumper. I've got a GTIYou could alway do the Wavetrac front and rear diffs. Sure it'll probably cost you ~$10k but that's cheaper than an MK8.
. But I know what you mean.I assume you've seen the rumors that it might go the MItsu route and end up being a cute ute? That sure would play into all things Subaru.
But it will still have an EJ making the same power it has since 2003.
