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Re: Ways of reducing the weight of our cars
« Reply #105 on: January 12, 2013, 11:04:31 pm »
Clubsport is now available.  I can do them.  Trying to get a set for the vRS.
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Re: Ways of reducing the weight of our cars
« Reply #106 on: January 13, 2013, 12:45:16 am »
Any price estimation as compared to B16 ? How would it stack against KW Clubsport wich is older on the market ?
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Re: Ways of reducing the weight of our cars
« Reply #108 on: January 13, 2013, 09:20:47 am »
Wow, double the price of the B16/Pss10 and seriously more than KW clubsport. I'd love to see a track test against one of the other 2 :)
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Re: Ways of reducing the weight of our cars
« Reply #109 on: January 13, 2013, 02:43:02 pm »
Yup, me too!

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Re: Ways of reducing the weight of our cars
« Reply #110 on: January 13, 2013, 04:35:27 pm »
The retail of the normal PSS10 is 1500 quid.  I think the Clubsport is around 500 quid more.

I will find out next week.

Going to be miles better than the KW offerings.  Better company to deal with too.
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Re: Ways of reducing the weight of our cars
« Reply #111 on: January 13, 2013, 05:28:09 pm »

PSS10  :drool:

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Re: Ways of reducing the weight of our cars
« Reply #112 on: January 14, 2013, 08:16:25 am »

PSS10  :drool:

Nah, ASTs. I've got the Golf R again and they are amazing

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Re: Ways of reducing the weight of our cars
« Reply #113 on: January 14, 2013, 08:24:40 am »

Indeed, alas I fail to see when they will be in my budget  :sad1:

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Re: Ways of reducing the weight of our cars
« Reply #114 on: January 14, 2013, 12:44:38 pm »
KW also sell a more refined version of it's Clubsport for the Mk.V platform now, the "Clubsport 3-way"
with separately adjustable low and high speed bump. This one is similarly priced to the Bilstein.  :driver:

On a side note: Contrary to the marketing text rear dampers are't "upside down" as you can clearly see
on the pictures above. Both Bistein B16 PSS10 and Sachs Performance do come with true upside down
dampers all round. This is just a negligible detail though.

ASTs are fine, too. At least in Germany ASTs are hard to legalize cos they lack of any TÜV approval.  :ashamed:

Nonetheless I strongly believe KW will still sell many more "Clubsport" suspensions in the near future
than Bilstein as KW sell a huge variety for all kind of cars and at reasonable prices. But, to be honest at
a similar price personally I'd prefer this Bilstein.
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Re: Ways of reducing the weight of our cars
« Reply #115 on: January 14, 2013, 01:43:08 pm »
PSS10 Clubsport retails at £1978 plus vat.  I get bugger all off TBH.
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Re: Ways of reducing the weight of our cars
« Reply #116 on: January 14, 2013, 01:54:57 pm »
How much is the VAT or do you know the full price in EURO?

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Re: Ways of reducing the weight of our cars
« Reply #117 on: January 14, 2013, 02:20:23 pm »
You know the funny thing is alot of the people that go this route and strip the cars right down to save weight when you see them or a photo of them it often makes me PMSL.
Because they never look at themselfs and think, hey i could do with loosing quite a few KG myself that may help  :grin:

Haha, this is very accurate.  I got up to a fat b@stard 17 stone last year... I'm 14 stone now (~20KG less) - probably a couple of grand worth of weight saving mods. :laugh:

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Re: Ways of reducing the weight of our cars
« Reply #118 on: January 14, 2013, 02:21:18 pm »

Im only 75 Kilos so might treat myself to a carbon tailgate this christmas  :innocent:

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Re: Ways of reducing the weight of our cars
« Reply #119 on: January 14, 2013, 02:23:30 pm »
Has anyone considered that removing loads of weight means the springs on their suspension will no longer be correct for the new lighter axle weights?