Help, new wheels scraping on '85 Coupe GT addendum:

[edkellock at juno.com]

Forgot to mention that my car is not lowered.  It has the
stock original springs with Boge TurboGas..  These shocks
caused the car to sit higher, which is exactly what I was going
for in the rear.  With the stock original shocks the rear end
sagged which exacerbated the wheel rub with the 205-50-15s.
I can still rub the left rear but only when I get the suspension
compressed enough which happens much less often now with
a higher static heighth and a firmer shock.  The 205's are on
TSW Evo 15x7 et40.  With the stock Ronal 14x6 et45 and
a 195-60 I have never experienced rubbing.

Years ago, I installed an Addco rear sway bar.  This upset the
handling more than any improvement I could notice.  I believe
it would have worked much better had I matched it with a thicker
front bar.  In the same vein, I really enjoy the feel of the car when
I take off the TSWs with 205s and go back to the smaller, lighter
stock wheels and tires.  Go figure.

Ed
Colorado Springs, CO

On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 17:29:53 -0800 "Fisher, Scott"
<Scott_Fisher at intuit.com> writes:
> 
> Also, to chime in further on the subject of tweaking ride height with
> shocks: some brands of shock *are* known to change a car's ride height.
> This was well documented in the early '90s about Tokico Illuminas; I
ran a
> set on my autocross GTI and the car was slightly taller than a friend
and
> codriver's GTI with Boge shocks.  Both cars were on stock springs and
the
> same tires/wheels, so the only difference was the shock choice.  The
main
> advantage that the Illuminas gave, however, was that I could tune the
rears
> stiffer than the fronts, which changed the car's corner-entry
> characteristics to make it feel as though it had more (or at least
some)
> oversteer in the early part of the corner.  Just the change you want to
make
> in a noseheavy autocrosser, where getting the car to "point" quickly in
a
> corner is half the battle.
> 
> One thing I enjoy about the CGT is that, for a FWD car, there's far
less
> understeer than I'd expect from that looooong 5-cylinder engine hanging
off
> the front.  Kudos to Audi for getting the rear suspension as good as it
is;
> it's a joy to pitch this car into a corner hard, get on the gas, have
the
> weight transfer to the rear and feel the car yaw outward into something
that
> feels very much like a RWD car's drift.  That's the main reason I'm not
> planning on putting in shorter springs -- since this will probably
never be
> a track car, I don't want to upset the rear-end geometry.  
> 
> --Scott Fisher
>   1983 CGT
>   1993 100CSQ
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