mk1 VW Lower Ball Joint Extender

Okay guys for all you guys with serious racers and track day mk1 i have sort of orginsed a group buy on club GTi for some VW Lower Ball Joint Extender



Here is the info from the site

"VOLKSWAGEN LOWER BALL JOINT EXTENDER:
FOR ALL MODELS USING THE 17MM BALL JOINT
Fits pinch clamp on stock VW upright, and stock ball joint shank. Returns lower control arm to proper angle to improve front suspension geometry on cars that have been lowered. Machined from 4140/4142 steel and heat treated to a tensile strength of 150,000 PSI. Standard extender drops ball joint 1.5 inches. Can be machined to special lengths."

There site http://www.pmwltd.com/catalog.html

They normally cost  295 dollers which works out as ?152.677 With the group buy i have secured a price of 197.00 per set which works out at ?100 each if we get ten sets.

Your thoughts mk1 guys?

Please head over to this thread here if your intested.

http://www.clubgti.com…m/showthread.php?t=116057

I sorry if i upset the mods but for a serious mk1 track/hillclimb/racer this are a must!

Just wanna share a good offer to everyone toying with idea of getting there mk1 properly sorted!

Regards

Charlie

This sounds like a really good idea, worth it on my Daily driver?  

So roughly ?10 each?

misread...so its ?100 a pair?

Looks good. Think I might go for a pair of these. Have signed up on the cgti forum…

Just need to find somewhere selling a ground control setup over here now…

Cheers
Alex

100 a set, not sure if that was mis read or me doing a typo!

I'll change it now!  :dontknow:

bump, quite a few on the list now.

few more to go to get the number we need!

Wouldn't it be alot cheaper and easier to bolt a block measuring the hight you want to the top of the wishbone then bolt the ball joint to the top of that ???? Thats what I'm planning on doing. It deffo aint gonna cost me 100 notes.

cabby18t said

Wouldn't it be alot cheaper and easier to bolt a block measuring the hight you want to the top of the wishbone then bolt the ball joint to the top of that ???? Thats what I'm planning on doing. It deffo aint gonna cost me 100 notes.

There are very high forces acting on the joint so I don't think it is just a case of bolting a block on else it would have been done by now… Go ahead and give it a go and if it works let us all know but after a few potholes I feel it could be a whole lot more than ?100 notes you need to spend :dontknow:

woZa said

cabby18t said

Wouldn't it be alot cheaper and easier to bolt a block measuring the hight you want to the top of the wishbone then bolt the ball joint to the top of that ???? Thats what I'm planning on doing. It deffo aint gonna cost me 100 notes.

There are very high forces acting on the joint so I don't think it is just a case of bolting a block on else it would have been done by now… Go ahead and give it a go and if it works let us all know but after a few potholes I feel it could be a whole lot more than ?100 notes you need to spend :dontknow:

Woza are you buying for a race car, if not and your worried about a few pot holes then you need to read this, taken from the GTI thread

A note of caution; these parts are designed for racing applications, and have been satisfactorily tested in
SCCA road racing and solo events. They have not been tested in street conditions such as dropping a wheel into a pot hole, or running into a curb. These are the type of events that we have no way of predicting, and therefore can give no warranty or accept any liability for these types of events.

Yes I saw that. It will be for a road car used on the track. If they can stand up to the stresses of racing I think they should be ok on the road too… We'll see!

The idea of this mod is to lower the ball joint to give near standard suspension angles. If you move the ball joint back up to it's original position at the bottom of the strut, you are back where you started. You want it to be nearer the road so that the suspension is working as it would on a standard ride height car.

yeha said

The idea of this mod is to lower the ball joint to give near standard suspension angles. If you move the ball joint back up to it's original position at the bottom of the strut, you are back where you started. You want it to be nearer the road so that the suspension is working as it would on a standard ride height car.

good point

I'll get my coat, and shut up.

Plus with the group but were making a nice saving over the amount they normally cost.  :wink:

End of the day cabby18t its about having suspenion that works well and not bodged    

mk1g60turbo said

End of the day cabby18t its about having suspenion that works well and not bodged    

Yeh yeh, I feel stupid enough already, no need to make me feel worse ops:

Tensile strength in PSI BEHAVE