Right insted of making the car faster i might aswell work on making the car be able to handle going faster first! Getting rear disks and pads (mintex) Ihave dodgey rattling and clonking noises comming from the front wheel arches, so thats going in to have a look. Once this is sorted im looking at getting........

rear arb- the white line one because im not planning to put my car round tracks, and the extra 100 or so quid can be better spent else where for me!!

Front strut brace- im gathering its going to stiffen up the steering at higher speeds?

Bushes- I know there are the seat ones but are there performance jobbers that can go straight on and oh yeah what the hell do they do! Also have noticed that the arb rear comes with bushes do i still need to get uprates rear ones?

Now i would like to get springs but there are so many speed ramps where i live, not sure its a great idea!

Right insted of making the car faster i might aswell work on making the car be able to handle going faster first! Getting rear disks and pads (mintex) Ihave dodgey rattling and clonking noises comming from the front wheel arches, so thats going in to have a look. Once this is sorted im looking at getting........

rear arb- the white line one because im not planning to put my car round tracks, and the extra 100 or so quid can be better spent else where for me!!

Front strut brace- im gathering its going to stiffen up the steering at higher speeds?

Bushes- I know there are the seat ones but are there performance jobbers that can go straight on and oh yeah what the hell do they do! Also have noticed that the arb rear comes with bushes do i still need to get uprates rear ones?

Now i would like to get springs but there are so many speed ramps where i live, not sure its a great idea!

Those mods are indeed a good idea and will deffo improve the handling. The Seat Cupra bushes help by being a solid unit (as apossed to the OEM ones that have lots of little gaps in the bush) they flex a lot less and provide more dircet streering and last longer to boot!

Also I personally would not bother with uprated rear disc/pads as the rear brakes do very little of the work - you would be better to upgrade the front brakes, a 312 Audi TT set-up is not that expensive and a nice upgrade

Edited 17 May, 201016 yr by Thirdtimeluck

im not really uprating the rear pads or disks they really need doing thats all, or otherwise i wouldnt bother!

Can someone please tell me what type of bushes i need, i.e front wishbone, rear beam mounts, rear arb front arb. or do i need them all?

Springs hardly lower a fabia since they are so high anyway, so if you wanted a small drop, you`ll still be ok with speed bumps.

Rattles from the front arches are quite possibly FARB droplinks; if so, change those and things will sharpen up straight off.

Strut braces on a shell that isn't straight or that have single bolts attaching the bar to the strut top brackets are snake oil! The best they can do is lock in the squintness!

Personally I wouldn't lower by more than 25mm. 35mm absolute tops!!

Even a 1 inch drop is enough to slow you right down over the speed humps if you also have a splitter fitted. :yes:

Can someone please tell me what type of bushes i need, i.e front wishbone, rear beam mounts, rear arb front arb. or do i need them all?

probably the best upgrade is replace all the bushes with powerflex ones...or use cupra console bushes and powerflex the rest....rear arb come with bushes that attached it to the rear beam....front strut brace is more cosmetic than purposefull...not many would know if a car was fitted with one if didnt know..

I had got that impression about the strut brace not doing a whole lot, i pressume if you are getting a rear arb then should go and get a front arb while im at it?

Nah, the standard arb is big enough, if you get coilovers and a rear arb/spacers the car will be fine.

I had coilovers, rear spacers, rear anti roll bar and a front strut brace on my Ibiza (same platform as Fabia) and sticky tyres and it was very fun

I had got that impression about the strut brace not doing a whole lot, i pressume if you are getting a rear arb then should go and get a front arb while im at it?

Stut brace does help cornering when driven hard FACT and also the vRS has a front ARB as standard - it can be replaced with a thicker stiffer one but I think it would be wize to invest your moneys elsewhere.

Cheers. ben

Ahh cheers i heard a lot about the rear arb and nothing about the front, so cheers for clearing this up guys!

So then looks like

rear arb

All front bushes replaced

Hopfully springs if money permits drop of 20-25mm

Ill wait on tyres as mine are newish!

Any other ideas?