Hi Guys,

 

I hope you can help me and point me in the right direction. I'm saving some money at the moment to make some mods to my Fabia and would lime some advice from peeps who already made similar ones.

 

The list of Mods I was thinking of adding are:

 

4 x 17mm Spacers (Sparco Ones - whole set found for £130.00)

Front and Rear ARB (Found H&R ones - Rear £170.00 or whole set for £356.00)

Set of Coilovers (AP made by KW - whole set found for £400.00)

i'll probably need to also upgrade the bushes but not sure which ones...

All parts are brand new

 

My car is remapped and lowered on the springs by 35mm at the moment. My qestions are...

 

• Should I buy front and rear ARB or one of these will do and if so which one should I go with...?
• If my car is already lowered on the springs and I'm planning to buy ARB should I leave it as it is or Coilovers is a good idea and investment
• Not sure if spacers give you better handling and guess this is only the mod to change the look of the car.

As you can see the parts on it's own if I buy all of these will costs me circa £900.00 which is a lot but if all worth it I'll consider adding all of these. the second reason is we have orderded a CitiGo Sport for my Wifey and Money are bit tight at the moment but I'm sure I can save this sort of money by May this year. I won't have to pay lots for fitting these as I have a mate who works at the garage and will fit these for me while servicing the car and replacing the cambelt etc in May this year while I'm on Holiday.

 

Any advice and help on these mods will be much appreciated.

 

Thanks and Happy New Year, Slotty

Hi Slotty, I have looked at all of these and done some of them.

 

The ARB's have to be the best pound for pound investment on these cars for my money alongside lowering springs, the positive of the ARB's is they have little to no impact on ride comfort.  If you look at mine and Sharkrider's threads we are both big advocates of the RARB (he lead the way and did his first) vRSy also had front and rear.  The car understeers a lot so stiffening up the rear not only dials out body roll but makes the rear end friskier and reduces understeer, my guess is a FARB as well as RARB would give you a nice neutral setup but for me if you only do one it has to be the rear, the rear H&R is a very simple fit and forget install too.

 

Superpro polybushes are in the pipe line for me, all the reading on these and talking to other forum member suggests this to be the best mod to sharpen up the cars responses.

 

Spacers I have wanted for looks mostly to get the wheels more flush with the body and improve the cars lines, negligible benefit handlingwise from widening the track and sadly they open you up to a host of potential issues (just use the search button on this)

 

On coilovers for £400.00 I can't think that you will get anything of quality at this price, I would expect to spend double that at least to get good coilies, a better direction would be to mate your lowering springs to some high quality dampers/shocks, I am also hopig to have some Bilstein B8's by spring.

 

Happy New Year to you too sir

Hi Sparkly,

 

Thanks a lot for your reply... That's the reason I asked because I know there are peeps here who did similar and can give me the best advice and save me some money on the uneccesary mods...!

 

 Re the Superpro polybushes...Which ones are the best to replace...??? How do you know which ones to buy...?

 

The coilovers I want to buy are these ones:

http://allegro.pl/zawieszenie-gwintowane-skoda-fabia-ap-by-kw-i3772451329.html

 

These costs £400.00 extacly and are made by KW in Germany. I know there are sets worth over £800.00 but can't afford these I'm afraid.

 

I'll check the dumpers/shocks...Are there any other high quality brands apart from Bilstein...? I have found some Bilstein ones but these are B3 or B4 and not too expensive...Around £100.00 for the set or around £30.00 per one

 

Slotty

on the Superpro Bushes I was talking to Alex @ AKS Tuning, a really nice bloke and knows the car well from working on vRSy's at points.  I would suggest giving him a call a full chassis set installed would be around £400.00 and Alex felt that was the way to go.  I think the biggest gains would be in the upper and lower steering arm bushes, I'll find you the link though. EDIT: found it front control arm kit http://www.superpro.eu.com/catalogue/74/skoda-fabia-mkii-2006-_to-current/kit5229cak/front-control-arm-bush-kit/

 

On suspension, it's as simple as you get's what you pay for, have seen the AP's, Awesome GTI have them on for £450.00 http://www.awesomegti.com/car/skoda/fabia2/ap-coilovers-skoda-fabia-vrs-mk2 - all I can say is that I wouldn't put them on mine.

 

Fredde (Confide) has Weitec suspension kit on his which is £481 and he rates that as a big improvement over stock http://www.awesomegti.com/car/skoda/fabia2/ultra-gt-35-35-skoda-fabia-ii-typ-5j you could then sell your lowering springs on here to reduce the cost a fraction.

 

It's the B8's that you want with lowering springs, the other Bilstein's you mention are for stock height springs.  I don't know of another damper which is readily available for the MKII to mate with springs.

You are top man...!!!!!!!!!!! Helping me a lot as I won;t be wasting my money on the things I don't really need...

DPM Performance did a group buy on Superpro, gives you an idea on pricing.

 

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/289039-superpro-bushes-group-buy/

 

Speaking to Alex though they listed at least one of the kits incorrectly.  I'd check with AKS if you plan to purchase, and if you do call them have patience, he usually seems flat out.