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Performance VW reviews the Mk5 Golf handling kit upgrade from SuperPro.

In its "Jack of All Trades" article, VW Performace follows the step by step fitting of the new kit in the tuning palace of JabbaSport. 

Performance VW - SuperPro Golf Mk5

 

SuperPro is always developing new products and needs your help for the final test.

Contact us if you are located in Brisbane and willing to be involved with our R&D team.

All we need is your car for up to 5 days in our R&D facilities in Moorooka (QLD), then we only ask you to provide feedback (you keep the products installed in your car)

 Top image - lift kit

This great new product from SuperPro is the ideal, cost effective way to obtain more ground clearance from a newer model 4WD utility. Designed to work only with standard suspension, these new kits have been carefully designed to meet all vehicle modification requirements set down in current legislation, in all states and territories. 

  • Easy to fit
  • Cost Effective
  • Comply with legislation

 

READ THE FULL ARTICLE

 

For more info on the compliance with the  current Australian legilation, check out this article

Extensive testing conducted by the Performance Racing & Tuning Council (PRTC) in the United States earned acceptance from Federal, State and Territory Governments for modifications made under the owner certified section of the National Code of Practice covering alterations to vehicle height.

The PRTC is a specialist section of the Australian Automotive Aftermarket Association (AAAA), the national body representing the automotive aftermarket, including manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, importers and retailers of automotive parts and accessories, tools and equipment.

Modifications to suspension are designed to improve safety and enhance dynamic performance of the vehicle. The successful test regime on two popular vehicles using suspension kits from Australian suppliers proved that lowering vehicle height by 50mm has no adverse impact on the operation of the Electronic Stability Control (ESC) unit.

The modified vehicles – 2013 Toyota Camry and 2015 Chevrolet SS (Commodore) – were benchmarked against identical non-modified units and no modifications were made to the vehicles’ original equipment ESC systems.

PRTC adopted the same test protocols used by all vehicle manufacturers and major component suppliers around the world to simulate vehicle dynamics for the development and testing of new chassis system components, engines, power trains, drivelines, suspension and vehicle electronic control systems.

Technical reports from the PRTC tests presented to Federal, State and Territory regulators showed the test vehicles all met Australian Design Rule (ADR) 35 requirements for ESC operation.

PRTC Chairman Graham Scudamore-Smith said the industry program to dispel the notion that small changes to the ride height of a vehicle have a negative impact on ESC operation is a win for common sense. “We worked closely with the regulators and thank the Federal, State and Territory authorities for their input to this successful project,” said Graham Scudamore-Smith.

Aftermarket displays due diligence

In all cases the test results were well within the normal operating capabilities of the vehicles’ ESC systems and ADR 35 requirements. All modified vehicles:

·         Easily passed the performance requirements of ADR 35.

·         Demonstrated compatibility with the control authority of the OEM electronic stability control system.

·         Worked in harmony with the OEM ESC system to prevent rollover potential in the extreme test conditions.

·         Did not demonstrate any “nuisance activations” of the ESC system during any test manoeuvres. 

We ensured complete transparency for the test regime by using the ADR as the standard, and using internationally recognised test procedures and testing facilities,” said Graham Scudamore-Smith.

“As a result of this PRTC initiative, the National Code of Practice has been amended to remove reference to ESC testing requirements from Section LS of Vehicle Standards Bulletin (VSB) 14. 

“Thus, we have eliminated the need for additional and redundant testing and cut red tape for Australian businesses and vehicle owners. This is a great outcome for private car owners who want to improve the on road capabilities of their vehicles.

“This successful modified vehicle ride height test program is a result of the AAAA’s commitment to due diligence in ensuring the engineering integrity of the products sold by membershe said.

TestJeep

 

 

A 2015 Jeep Wrangler with Australian made 50mm suspension left equipment
easily passed ADR 35 requirements for the vehicle’s original equipment electronic stability control system.
It is pictured here with test equipment fitted at Link Engineering in the USA.

TestSteeringRobot

 

 

 

 To ensure precision for the electronic stability control testing of
the altered ride height vehicles, Link Engineering used a computer
driven steering robot to guide the vehicle through the test process.

 

 

 PRTC logo

About the Performance Racing and Tuning Council of Australia (PRTC): 

The PRTC is a non-competitive, specialist council of the Australian Automotive Aftermarket Association formed to promote professional and responsible activities within the performance racing and tuning sector, including facilitating growth in the industry through effective communication and education, providing regulatory advice and advocacy, identifying opportunities, future trends and technologies, creating networking opportunities among members, and promoting road safety and sanctioned off-street motorsport events, including drag racing and drifting. Visit:

http://www.prtc.com.au/

 

AAAA logo

About the Australian Automotive Aftermarket Association Limited (AAAA):

The AAAA is the national industry association representing manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, importers and retailers of automotive parts and accessories, tools and equipment in Australia.  The Association has over 1,900 member companies in all categories of the Australian automotive aftermarket and includes major national and multi-national corporations as well as a large number of independent small and medium size businesses.  Member companies are located in metropolitan, regional and rural Australia. The parts and maintenance sector of the $108 billion Australian automotive industry represents about $34 billion. AAAA member companies employ more than 40,000 people and export over $800 million worth of product a year. Visit http://www.aaaa.com.au/

 

Media Release PRTC 11 January 2016

 

Harding Performance brought a mildly fettled MkVII Golf R to Hot Tuner just to prove how good the new-gen platform is.

Check out all the Hot Tuner 2015 action here.Hot Tuner 2015: Harding Volkswagen Golf R

It was a brassy move considering the opposition, but Guy Harding admits the Volkswagen engineers had made it easier for his team having refined the Golf platform to a point of excellence for the seventh-generation model.

“Everything is new to us, so we have to start from scratch again,” he says. “It’s a complete fresh-sheet approach as the MkV and MkVI were very similar, we’ve had them since 2005. Everything we applied to the previous models over the last nine years no longer applies.

“We took the new cars out and tested them standard. It’s taken quite a while to get into the engine management and the new chassis; the suspension development has taken quite a lot of time as the new car is more stable and we can’t get the easy, quick gains we could on previous models, as Volkswagen has already taken care of those simple fixes.”

Harding volkswagen golf r rear

What Guy and his team delivered was a mild but devastatingly effective 2015 Golf R. APR supplied the tune for the motor, E85 conversion and (prototype) intercooler, while HP tuned the DSG trans for better shifts and Milltek again provided an exhaust for aural delight.

The R600 intake, Sports springs and monoblock front brakes are from Racingline, while the swaybars and alloy control arms come courtesy of HP and SuperPro. With a retina-pounding vinyl wrap, the angry R is finished off with Racingline 18-inch alloys shod in Yokohama AD08R rubber.

“This Stage 2 Pack is almost as fast as our older Stage 3,” Harding admits. “We’re not yet sure if the MkVII Stage 3 will easily surpass the old one, as the cylinder head has a restriction. It has an internal manifold so the runners out of the cylinder are no longer visible and that’s going to be our bottle-neck.”

That restriction is balanced out by newfound opportunities with the MkVII platform in the form of dual-valve lift control. And, in bigger news, it can now run alcohol-based ethanol fuels.

“E85 is new for us because, since the introduction of direct-injection to the VW Group in 2005, we just haven’t had enough fuel capacity,” Harding explains. “The aftermarket parts for DFI just don’t exist for us; things like five-volt injectors and the management to run them.

This car, with eight injectors standard, including the crucial port-injectors, we can now get the flow to run E85. It’s been a big step for us because we’re getting race fuel performance for $1.10/L instead of $8/L. I think it’s going to be big in VW tuning.”

So, with such a good base car does Harding see the trend for VW tuning slowing down? Far from it.

“We have a lot of young professionals buying these types of cars, and we have to include the Audi S3 on this as it’s the same car with a different skin. The new S3 is the biggest resurgence of Audi tuning that we’ve seen in a long time, like the old WRX and Evo thing.”

Workshop

Car: 2015 MkVII VW Golf R
Who: Harding PerformanceHarding volkswagen golf r dyno
Where: 11 Castlemaine Street, Coorparoo, Queensland
How long: Since 1998
Contact: 1300 730 949
Email: info@hp.net.au
Website: hp.net.au

Specifications 

Drive: all-wheel 
Engine: 1984cc inline-4, DOHC,
16v, turbo
Gearbox: 6-speed dual-clutch
Suspension: coil-overs, A-arms, anti-roll bar (f); multi-links, coil-overs, anti-roll bar (r)
Brakes: 370mm ventilated discs, 6-piston calipers (f); 310mm ventilated discs, single-piston calipers (r)
Wheels: 18 x 8.0-inch (f/r)
Tyres: 235/35 ZR18 (f/r); Yokohama Advan AO50

Parts and Prices

APR Stage 2   $3,990
Intercooler   $1,995
Transmission Tune   $1,495
Exhaust   $5,775
Intake   $750
Suspension   $2,599
Brakes   $3,995
Wheels/Tyres   $3,283
Fitting Costs   $1,090
Total Mods Cost   $24,972
Vehicle Cost (mSrp)   $55,240

Total Cost

 

$80,212

Another win for Guy Harding and his steroid-fed Golfs

The whole is more than the sum of its parts” is an old saying, and boy, oh boy, did the Harding Performance crew prove that at Hot Tuner. While its spec sheet looked far too tame to take on the big guns in the garage, the reality is the MkVII is as close to an off-the-shelf sleeper as you could find. And it blew everyone who drove it away.

Okay, so the vinyl wrap is proper lairy, but in more traditional garb the APR Stage 2 R could pass as any other five-door hatch on a metropolitan street. It’s just that it’s also capable of mid-12-second quarter-miles, was fourth on the circuit by a super-slim margin and did repeated 4.31 second 0-100km/h runs as easy as pie, while other more fancied machines struggled with wheelspin.

Harding volkswagen golf r take offDriving the R was a no-mess, no-fuss experience in speed. Get in, put it in the drive mode you want and you’d either go fast or go really, really fast – adjusted via the aggressiveness you took to the throttle. While the springs felt a bit too stiff, it cornered and braked well, and was generally a big ball of fun on the tight, demanding Sydney Motorsport Park South Circuit.

It’s a credit to Harding Performance that they’ve created a comfortable, quiet street car that becomes a rapid, exhilarating turbo monster with a stab of happy pedal. Yet it retains all the factory niceties modern turbo Golfs are famous (and well-loved) for.

After topping the list for 0-100km/h times and coming second on the 0-400m times (by 0.15 seconds, to a car with more than double its horsepower at the wheels), it placed fourth in the 100-0km/h braking test with a 35.85m and fifth at the dyno after running a peak of 246.9kW. And this was enough to give it the win at Hot Tuner 2015.

After reeling off a 62.80sec for the fourth fastest time around the South Circuit, Luffy was beaming. “It’s a testament to the HP guys because they’ve taken the base Golf R and really brought it to life with the modifications they’ve done,” he enthused.

While it was cracking hot on the short track, everyone agreed that the faster full circuit would have suited it even more as the suspension could get real load fed into it and the heavy-hitting motor could stretch its legs.

Punters experienced with turbo Japanese cars of the past are used to swapping weedy stock turbochargers out for bigger aftermarket offerings, but they’re in for a rude shock with the APR Golf. On the dyno it ran back-to-back passes, making between 240.4kW and 246.9kW at all four wheels on the stock turbocharger!

Harding volkswagen golf r turning

Interestingly, while it still has the addictive top-end rush typical of a traditional tuned turbo car, you’re not left with a laggy, unresponsive dunger at part-throttle or down low. The R was never left wanting for grunt or boost as there is 500Nm on tap from 2000rpm. And Guy Harding reckons they’ll have plenty more available soon.

“We achieved 350kW out of a MkVI on a legal, street-driven kit, and we’re hoping to hit at least that,” he says. “We do have a huge advantage of increased fuel potential and dual valve lift on this car, which are our big advantages straight up. It’s why this car is making so much power out of the box.”

“A lot of people are buying these because they’re a quality, all ’round good car in a great package they can make very fast very easily. It’s something new for us to have something here with so few mods, but it’s early in the MkVII’s cycle so next year we should be considerably faster.”

We can’t wait. Congratulations Harding Performance and APR, winners of MOTOR’s Hot Tuner 2015.

Luffy Says

“It’s a testament to these guys. They’ve taken the base of the Golf R and really brought it to life with the modifications. Probably a little bit stiff for this tight little circuit, but it would be really well suited to the full circuit here where you can really start to load the car up. It’s still nice and lively through all the tight and twisty stuff. And the engine upgrades bring that fantastic engine to life.”

Source: Motormag.com.au, 01/12/2015, article by Lain Kelly

VW Racing Cup 2014

The Volkswagen Racing Cup has gained another top-flight sponsor for the coming season, with leading motorsport and road-car suspension component supplier SuperPro signing on to support the championship.

Like the championship’s new title sponsor Milltek Sport, SuperPro has been a key supplier of parts to competitors for several seasons and is looking to raise awareness of its class-leading products through association with the UK’s best-supported one-make race series.


“Being involved with motorsport gives us the background evidence to prove our product is different to, and better than, those of our rivals,” said Richard Fearn, General Manager of SuperPro Europe Ltd, the European distributor of the Australian-made SuperPro bushes.

“Volkswagen group models are a significant part of our business and a market sector which is growing in importance, so the Volkswagen Racing Cup is a perfect marketing fit for us, and of course we have supplying suspension components to competitors for around five years.”

Ross Wylie’s SlideSports Scirocco was among the SuperPro-equipped machines to win in the Volkswagen Racing Cup during 2013.

Welcoming SuperPro to the series, championship manager Matt Walker said: “Volkswagen Racing UK has used SuperPro components in many road and race-car builds and can wholeheartedly recommend them, as we know can many of the championship’s competitors. We are very pleased to be strengthening our links and that SuperPro will be supporting the series.”

The opening rounds of the Milltek Sport Volkswagen Racing Cup are set to take place at Oulton Park on Easter Monday, 21 April. The 14-race, seven-meeting series supports the British GT Championship and is set to be televised across Europe via Motors TV.

 

Source: Nick Carter

Max Communications

SuperPro BMW 1 & 3 series alloy arm upgrade


As part of its ever-expanding range of alignment and suspension products, Australian chassis authority SuperPro has released details of its all-new alloy arm upgrades for many 1 and 3 Series BMW models.

Thanks to BMW’s parts sharing philosophy, these new parts will fit all E81, E82, E87, E88, E90, E91 and E92 models. SuperPro has designed these parts in response to significant demand from the tuning fraternity for a set of uprated front arms to cope with the stresses and forces placed upon these cars when driven enthusiastically, and of course, when subjected to tuning. Both the 1 and 3 series ranges have become well-proven tuner platforms, and these new products not only offer a greater level of performance and durability ‘out of the box’, but also the ability to adjust geometry far outside the factory’s relatively timid parameters.

Where the OEM parts use traditional rubber around a ball joint, the SuperPro parts use a vastly superior polyurethane formulation that balances greater precision with equivalent levels of comfort. This formulation is really clever, as it’s not only used by many race teams and reigning motorsport champions, but it’s also approved at dealer level by Subaru UK’s accessory division, Pro-R . Clearly a compound that can be all things to all people! By removing any unwanted movement, or ‘slop’ in the suspension action, the SuperPro arms ensure that chassis geometry is kept consistent and maintained even when the car is driven on the limit.

Both the Front Lower Control Arm and the Radius Arm offer a complete arm replacement and come ready mounted with all bushes for a simple and easy fit. The Control Arm is “on car” camber adjustable and allows up to a degree of extra camber. The radius arms can also be adjusted in situ and allows tuners to obtain an additional increase or decrease of caster. In both cases, this fine adjustment is achieved by the simple rotation of a turnbuckle – and the kit even includes a spanner for this very purpose.

 

Source: Easier Cars

http://www.easier.com/120357-superpro-bmw-1-3-series-alloy-arm-upgrade.html

 

 

ALOY0005K

Christmas is just a couple of weeks away and if you’re like us, you probably have lots of shopping left to do. In case you need some gift ideas or are just looking for some cool new goodies for your own car, here’s the December Product Showcase from our official suppliers.

Who wouldn’t want to find some of these cool parts and accessories under the old tree this year?

SuperPro have developed and released the front arms for the BMW in response to the need for an upgrade to the standard OEM style rubber bushings and ball joint. The 1 Series shares its platform with the larger 3 Series and both have become popular as a tuner car, particularly the bigger horsepower cars. This has uncovered a few issues with what is a very good chassis. 

The front cross member/cradle assembly and control arms are made of rigid aluminium and provide a solid platform to build a well-handling car. Both of these vehicles run fairly aggressive caster from the factory, but with no adjustability. The new SuperPro arms allow for adjustment to achieve caster ‘split’ and allow for tunability to really make this chassis perform. The OEM bushings are fairly soft and the SuperPro bushings minimise the dynamic caster change and increase stability under braking.

The SuperPro Alloy Lower Control Arm is fitted with a camber adjustable SuperPro bushing to complete the package. All the SuperPro bushings are cotton reel style, which allows full articulation and movement without binding and with no increase in noise, vibration or harshness.

ALOY0005K Complete Alloy Control Arm Kit – includes radius and front lower control arms.

• Both the front lower control arm and the radius arm are a complete arm replacement and include SuperPro bushings and a ball joint.
• The control arm is ‘on car’ camber adjustable.
• The control arm allows for up to 1 degree camber change.
• The radius arm is ‘on car’ adjustable.
• The radius arms allow for up 0.8 degrees caster increase or decrease.
• Kit includes a spanner to adjust both lower control arms and radius arms.

To find out more information on this and other SuperPro products for your car and where you can purchase these, visit www.superpro.com.au or www.superpro.eu.com.

 

Source: Speedhunters.com

http://www.speedhunters.com/2013/12/december-product-showcase/

 

I’m known as the hot rod guy around these parts, so I’m guessing a lot of our readers will be surprised to learn that my daily driver is a modded ZN6. I built the car for my employer, Airaid Filter Company, to display in our booth at last year’s SEMA show. I loved it so much that when my company put it up for sale I was the first in line to buy it.

SuperPro

Of course, since it was built as a SEMA car it was designed to grab attention, hence the graphics and logos. The next phase of this fun little car’s life will be as a daily driver and Speedhunters project car, so it will be changing quite a lot over the coming months.

Superpro

The first project I’ll be doing is installing this SuperPro Master Kit for the ZN6 which includes every bushing you can change out on the chassis.

Superpro

SuperPro is an Australian manufacturer of performance suspension components like these bushings. I’ve had my reservations about polyurethane bushings, but they use a proprietary blend that not only improves handling and stability, but does so with no increase in noise or harshness. You can read more about this here.

Superpro

SuperPro also prides itself on precision engineering – something I started to notice as I opened each package. The steel sleeves are machined to tight tolerances and the bushings are knurled and grooved to retain grease and reduce friction at pivot points. The ability to hold grease means you don’t have to keep taking your suspension apart to re-lubricate the bushings.

Superpro

They also sent sway bars – front and rear.

Superpro

I had already mounted a set of KW V3s and honestly was plenty satisfied with the set-up as it was. Not only do the V3s handle well, they are by far the nicest riding lowered suspension I’ve owned – a good quality in a daily driver.

Superpro

The first bushings I set my sights on were those that held the rear crossmember to the unibody. The crossmember supports the rear differential and suspension, so taking up the slop here should make the car feel tighter.

Superpro

I was pleased to see that this was an insert and not a complete bushing because I knew this would make the installation much easier.

Superpro

There are four mounting points so I removed one bolt at a time and used a large pry bar to sneak the upper bushing into place.

Superpro

Here you can see how the inserts are molded to fill in the gaps in the factory bushings.

Superpro

Moving to the front mounting points I did the same with my pry bar…

Superpro

… and loosened this bracket to slide the lowers into position.

Superpro

Here’s the finished installation of the rear crossmember inserts.

Superpro

While I was under the rear of the car I turned my attention to the sway bar.

Superpro

The spindly stock unit is apparently 14mm.

Superpro

I used a ratcheting wrench to turn the end link nuts off. This is helpful in case they spin, as you can use a hex key through the open end of the wrench.

Superpro

The SuperPro sway bar was in place in minutes. I used the furthest end link mounting position since the instructions recommend you start at the softest setting.

Superpro

The calipers show the new bar is 19mm in diameter, but it’s actually 18mm plus the thickness of the powdercoat.

Superpro

SuperPro also has its own aftermarket end link coming, so we’ll touch on those in the next installment.

Superpro

Moving to the front of the car I pulled down all of the skid plates that cover the belly of the car.

Superpro

I removed the steering rack bolts and let it hang down a bit so I could get to the bushings. There’s no need to unhook the tie rod ends to swap the rack bushings.

Superpro

I used a large socket that fit over the bushing on one side, with a long bolt that would draw the stock bushing out as I tightened it.

Superpro

This worked well and the bushings came right out.

Superpro

Once the bushing was most of the way out I was able to grab the socket and wiggle it the rest of the way.

Superpro

The SuperPro bushings are two-piece with a machined steel sleeve, so you just pop one half in each side, grease the sleeve, and slide it in.

Superpro

While I was under the front of the car I pulled out the front sway bar…

Superpro

…which measured 18mm…

Superpro

… as compared to the 20mm SuperPro version.

Superpro

I applied plenty of the supplied grease to the frame-mounted bushings and again attached the end links in the furthest mounting position.

Superpro

Here’s the finished product with sway bar and steering rack bushings installed.

Superpro

There are a lot of bushings left to install on all the control arms, but I thought to finish this story I would give a quick demo using parts that I’ve already removed from the car in favor of more adjustable aftermarket parts.

Superpro

I have a little five-ton bench top press which I attempted to use to press out the rear toe arm bushing. No dice.

Superpro

The instructions call for a torch to heat the rubber part of the bushing.

Superpro

With the press maintaining a stretch on the bushing I applied heat with a propane torch.

Superpro

Soon I heard some cracking sounds and the rubber part separated from the outer sleeve.

Superpro

Next I clamped the toe arm to my work bench and used an air chisel to carefully cut away the remaining sleeve.

Superpro

Now I had the bare arm into which I could install the SuperPro bushing.

Superpro

Each pack is clearly marked and comes with its own pack of grease.

Superpro

After applying grease to the inside of the bushing and the outside of the sleeve I slid the sleeve into place.

Superpro

Another part I had already removed from the car was the stock rear lower control arm (LCA).

Superpro

Again I put pressure on the bushing…

Superpro

… and applied heat…

Superpro

… until the bushing popped out. By the way, it would be wise to clean the factory goop off the arm before doing this. It does make a mess.

Superpro

Here’s the SuperPro bushing and sleeve installed in the rear LCA. Notice the ridged edge of the bushing – this is the knurling that is designed to retain grease and reduce friction.

Superpro

So how does it drive? I have to say I thought the car was tight before, but the addition of these SuperPro parts has made me realize there was more to be had. The car corners even flatter, and there is less slop in the chassis while launching and shifting too. Steering feel is definitely more precise and responsive, with no NVH penalty that I’ve felt in the last week of driving with these parts installed. I’m off to buy a bigger press now, so stay tuned for the next story where I’ll install the rest of the suspension bushings.

In the meantime, what would you do if you got your hands on a former SEMA show car? We would love to hear your thoughts in the comments section.

 

Words and photos by Keith Charvonia

Source: Speedhunters.com

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