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what setting for fat h+r arbs

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:33 pm
by EDDY,G
as title says with the thick h+rs arbs.. what setting is best for fast road ?..i dont do much track work just the odd trip to the ring ! any advice would be appresiated !!

chears !

RE: what setting for fat h+r arbs

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:51 pm
by PhilT
I set mine on the hardest setting.

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:55 pm
by Jarv
Agree with Phil, hardest setting for me too. In fact, if you don't set the rears to their hardest setting the droplinks rub.

http://www.rs246.com/index.php?name=PNp ... hlight=arb

HTH

Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 6:12 am
by don
hardest on rear and I think middle/softer setting on front for me

Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 12:47 pm
by RSpimp
got mine set "middle" front and back

Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 11:10 am
by derdle
I thought there were only two settings - hard and harder? Anyway, mine on hardest both ends. As jarv says, the rears need to be on hardest to prevent the droplinks rubbing on the driveshafts.

Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 12:26 pm
by tolga
hard on the front, but definetely go with soft on the rear. Otherwise you'll get oversteer.
The car is natural with the above settings, and reacts so nicely... imho

Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 12:29 pm
by derdle
but definetely go with soft on the rear
But then then drop links rub on the driveshafts!

Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 1:06 pm
by DavidT
tolga wrote:hard on the front, but definetely go with soft on the rear. Otherwise you'll get oversteer.
The car is natural with the above settings, and reacts so nicely... imho
Very difficult to get oversteer, best you can hope for is to balance it up a bit. I would do soft front, hard rear but I know people set the front hard too. That makes for too much understeer for me.

Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 2:02 pm
by RSpimp
gonna deffo go hard on the back dont like the sound of things rubbin on drivshafts ! do they rub on all cars ? or do they only rub on lowerd cars ? seem daft that they didnt realise this at the design stage !! :bash: cheers for the advice though guys !! :beerchug:

Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 2:22 pm
by derdle
or do they only rub on lowerd cars ?
Good point - mine is slightly lowered on H&R's...anybody else?

Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 2:22 pm
by jimbo1234567
mines std height and the drive shafts rubbed into the droplinks. the more weight in the back or the lower the car the more they push together so when its jacked up theres loads of clearance.

Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 2:56 pm
by Nige_RS4
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or do they only rub on lowerd cars ?


Good point - mine is slightly lowered on H&R's...anybody else?
All cars unless you fit Dougs top secret rear ARB mod!

Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 3:09 pm
by DavidT
True Nige, although they don't seem to rub on my B5 S4.

It depends on how stiff you want the car. I think you need Doug's attachments if you want the front bar set to stiff, otherwise there is too much understeer. That said, it makes it more of track car than a country road weapon IMO as they don't ride the bumps & uneven surfaces that well.

Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 3:32 pm
by MarkB
Nige_RS4 wrote:
Quote:

or do they only rub on lowerd cars ?


Good point - mine is slightly lowered on H&R's...anybody else?
All cars unless you fit Dougs top secret rear ARB mod!
Not so top secret now. I've seen it with my own 2 eyes :sekret: