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As title nice & easy, i m in the market for uprated non squeeky reliable ARB's ! Majority wins !
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Neuspeed 22/19 on mine mate!
Are you on standard suspension? If so and it's the original and you don't intend on upgrading it in the near future I'd say stick with standard arbs. If you have updated suspension or new standard suspension I'd say go R32 as it'll be cheaper.
You have to remember that the arbs are normally the finishing touches to a suspension setup so it won't benefit you to have fancy arbs with standard suspension.
H&R on mine
Had the H&R's on mine.
Damian @ DPM Performance
Was about to write a big massive thread on how great my KW ones are on my A3...then saw you have an S3!.
22F/19R or R32 if on a budget (23F/19R)
my main aim is to lose the dreaded creaks / sqeeks which occur after a few years of running standard ARB's i dont intend to lower my car but would like to uprate and maintain some reliability also it would be nice to lose somebody roll, your thoughts are welcomed. Would installed H&R prove no benefit at all ?
That standard arbs are setup to compliment the standard suspension, you'll notice a change even if you just bought front and back brand new stanard arbs.
Some have said that uprated arbs on standard tired shocks and springs is dangerous but others have said not. I ent for a standard replacement when my rear one packed in because I knew I wouldn't be changing my shocks and springs for a while. I noticed a nice improvement to the handling just by having a brand new arb on as I was used to the boat like handling from my 8 year old components.
ive been told that i need new arbs by audi, not sure if they are fishing for work or whether they do actually need doing
in any case i have been pricing new ones up, bearing in mind i still have std suspension i am looking at std/r32 arbs, i tried my local motor factors for std arbs and they said they could only source them from audi, does anyone know where else i could get them from?
as for the r32's im guessing we are talking about std r32 arbs, if so are these the ones listed on awesome gti?
If your car is on its original ARBs then Audi probably aren't lying and they will need doing. ou might be able to get these ARBs from Euro Car Parts or somewhere similar but personally i'd stick with Audi.
The R32 ARBs are indeed standard Golf Mk4 R32 Arbs and they are the same that Awesome supply but it might be worth checking how much a VW garage sells them for as they might be slightly cheaper.
cheers matey, il pop along saturday then and see what they say
il post prices up as soon as i know for anyone else in the same boat as me!
I am planning on changing mine soon, I will be going down the R32 arb route and will be getting the Defocn bushes done at the same time.
i wish i had the extra cash to do bushes at the same time save me ripping it all apart again in the near future, but funds wont allow it, boooo!!
What are defcon bushes & where are you going to be using them ?
This link prob gives the best explanation about the Defcon 2 set up that I will be fitting, http://www.modshack.info/defcon.htm. It seems quite a popular upgrade with R32/MK1 TT owners. Mine will be fitted by APS who look after my car, I think they are the sole UK importer for them, but I may be wrong.
Let me know if you need/want any more info and I will try to help.
H&Rs man!
Neuspeed 22/19's... Sharpen the car up nicely
still dont quite understand what the defcon bushes actually do ?
So H&R owners when i purchase a front & rear kit do i get uprated bushes included ? really struggling to find the kit any cheaper than £350.00
Can anyone tell me roughly how much front & rear R32 ARBs will set me back?
H&R ARBs
KW V3 Coilovers
Forge rear tie bars
Powerflex front wishbone bushes
ive been looking around for arbs and found these:
whiteline 20mm front 18mm rear £235 for the pair, seems like a bit of a bargain to me
just thought id post it up
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One of the main reasons for building (or rebuilding) battery packs, other than the cost savings, is the ability to improve the connections between the cells so the current will flow more easily from one cell to the next with the least amount of resistance. Resistance causes the cells to overwork themselves and heat up. Heat is bad for battery life and performance. The hotter the pack is, the less runtime, current, and life it will give and have. And the hotter your battery runs, the more resistance there will be.
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There are two ways that the cells can be connected together. "In Series" is where the positive terminal of one cell is wired to the negative terminal of another cell. With this method, the total voltage of the pack is the sum of the individual cell voltages. For example, a 6-cell NiCd or NiMH pack is made up of cells rated at a nominal 1.2 volts each. When wired in series the total nominal voltage of the pack is the number of cells in the pack (6) multiplied by the voltage of each cell (1.2V in this case) to get the total pack nominal voltage (7.2 volts for this example). This is the most common cell connection method found in the RC hobby.
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CAUTION: it should take between 5 - 7 seconds to solder each joint. Any longer and you risk damaging or overheating the battery.
Acid Core Solder: Solder with an acid flux in the center. It is used for soldering more difficult metals, such as galvanized iron. Soldered surfaces should be washed after each soldering to remove the corrosive effect of the acid.
Ampere: A unit of measure of the rate of electron flow or current in an electrical conductor. One ampere of current represents one coulomb of electrical charge (6.24 x 1018 charge carriers) moving past a specific point in one second.
AWG: American wire gauge (AWG) is a standardized wire gauge system used since 1857 predominantly in the United States for the diameters of round, solid, nonferrous (not iron based), electrically conducting wire.
Battery Bar: Strips of solid metal and some times braided wire strands that are used to connect and carry the current between cells in a battery pack.
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Current: Essentially how fast electrons are moving in a circuit. It is measured in amperes (amps). Current (Amps) = Potential (Volts) / Resistance (Ohms)
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LiPo: Short for lithium polymer, a lithium based rechargeable battery that uses a polymer case allowing it to be lighter and specifically shaped for its application and offer a very high capacity for its weight. They need to be carefully monitored during charging as overcharging or charging a physically damaged or over discharged cell can be a potential fire hazard.
Nicad, NiCd: Short for Nickel Cadmium, a type of rechargeable battery used for RC products. They are relatively inexpensive. They need to be fully discharged after each and every use. If not, they will not discharge to their full potential on subsequent discharge cycles.
NiMH, NI-MH: Short for Nickel-Metal Hydride, a type of rechargeable battery used for RC products. They have a significantly higher energy potential (capacity) in cells approximately the same size and weight of comparable NiCd cells and they don't require complete discharge between charging. They were developed as an alternative to Nickel Cadmium cells.
Milliampere-hour: Designated as mAh. It is one-thousandth of an ampere and used to describe how much electrical charge a particular battery will hold, especially for small batteries.
Multi-Meter: An electronic measuring instrument that combines several measurement functions in one unit. A typical multi-meter may include the ability to measure voltage, current and resistance. Also known as a volt/ohm meter or VOM.
Parallel: A configuration for connecting cells in a battery pack where the positive terminal of one cell is connected to the positive terminal of another, and negative terminal of one cell to the negative of another. Polarity: Refers to the direction of electron flow. The polarity in cells is indicated by a positive (+) end (terminal) and a negative (-) end. Electrons move from negative to positive.
Resistance: Describes how easily electricity flows through a material. Where resistance is high more effort is needed. A smaller-diameter electrical wire has more resistance to electrical flow than a larger-diameter wire. It's measured in units called ohms.
Rosin Core Solder: Solder with a rosin flux in the center. Used for soldering electrical wiring.
Series: A configuration for connecting cells in a battery pack where the positive terminal of one cell is wired to the negative terminal of the next cell, which is wired to the positive terminal of the next cell, and so forth.
Soldering Wick: Usually found as a roll of fine, braided 18 to 42 AWG wire of high conductivity electrical copper, which has been treated with a rosin solder flux. In RC it is an option used to connect cells in a pack. It is also used for removing solder from any solder joint. Also called desoldering wick or desoldering braid.
Stick Pack: When cells in a battery pack are connected in a line, positive to negative like batteries in a flashlight. Also called shotgun packs.
Tinning: The process of coating a metal with a thin layer of solder. Tinning is often done to make attaching components and wires easier and quicker.
Voltage: The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit; the measurement of electrical pressure.
Watts: Watts is a measure of the amount of electricity being used; a rate of electrical power consumption. The formula for determining how many watts an electrical circuit can carry or how many watts an electrical device will require is Watts = Volts x Amps.
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Stephen Shore, from Financial Review DealBook, blogged live from the AVCJ conference in Sydney on Friday. His dispatches are below. (Click here for Thursday's blog entries.)
That's it for DealBook's coverage of AVCJ. It's back to the office for us to finalise our Saturday Inside the Deal column in the Weekend Financial Review and on DealBook, which looks inside a recent PE deal, CHAMP's oOh!media transaction. Thanks for joining us over the past two days.
We've heard a lot about China over the past couple of days but now the room is eager to get the perspective of three panellists based in India. And so the next panel is focused on this giant emerging economy, moderated by Jason Breeman from Everstone Capital Asia, with Sean Sovak at Lighthouse Advisers India and Anil Ahuja from 3i Group in Asia.
Breeman asks the panelists to talk about the opportunities for private equity in India.
Ahuja says "Jason made us put our hands on the bible and promise to tell the truth but I'm not a Christian so we should be OK". He says 3i Asia is a $1.2 billion fund – the largest PE fund in Asia.
Ahuja says anyone who has been to India knows the economy has grown despite the government. The infrastructure is woeful but the next five-year plan is "talking about" a trillion dollars of infrastructure spend. As India has limited capital, about 60 per cent of that spend will have to come from the private sector. "This is the one part of the market that is skewed heavily in the favour of people who have the capital."
Sovak says Lighthouse focus on the lower mid-market. He believes India presents a great opportunity from a human capital perspective,with world-class entrepreneurs. He's convinced there will be global companies coming out of India, backed by private equity.
Ahuja describes gaining entry to the market as "a huge problem". He says for most deals in India you have to pay twice the multiple you would in other markets and blames limited partners for giving too much money indiscriminately to too many mangers.
Sovak says Lighthouse's average entry multiple is in the high single digits. He wonders if that expensive: "If you have a business growing 20 per cent you're not going to get it for a three or four-times multiple."
Breeman then asks about the challenges with corporate governance and PE firms monitoring investments in India.
Sovak says the same rules apply to India as applies with anywhere: you have to be involved and know what's going on with the business and gain the trust of the entrepreneur. He maintains that India is a fantastic opportunity, but it's still emerging so you have to be careful with it.
Ahuja believes governance is the single biggest value a PE firm can bring to an Indian business. "We bring best-in-class ideas about how to run a good business."
Breeman asks "what about exits? We have a little bit of china envy when it comes to exits".
Sovak says there is a lot of noise and some reality that too much money came into India too quickly. He says Lighthouse put its largest investment to an initial public offering, but India is notorious for fads. "There's an internet boom and a finance boom, you're not going to get your money back on those."
Ahuja says you don't buy in India unless you know how you're going to get out and you should have multiple options available.
Breeman asks about corruption, and wants to know how you make sure your businesses are clean.
Sovak says a lot of corruption Westerns read about is due to a freedom of information act and corruption is being uncovered in India. "There's a long way to go but the bar is being raised. It's similar to New York and Chicago in the 1930s. It's an evolution, but it's heading in the right direction."
The next session begins, moderated by Les Fallick from Principle Advisory Services. The panel includes Tim Sims from Pacific Equity Partners and Archer Capital's Greg Minton – two of the industry's heavyweights.
Les Fallick promises to ask the tough questions and kicks off by asking if there are too many private equity firms in the Australian market?
Tim Sims says PEP is the only player with scope to do deals of more than $500 million value. He says private equity is a mixed up market with different layers but there is evidence the Australian market is imbalanced to fund supply.
Greg Minton says in the "space" that Archer plays in there's only Archer, Ironbridge and CHAMP Private Equity. In reference to Sims comment, he says "I don't think there's going to be a big wipeout".
Sims challenges Minton on the "bizarre notion" that it's easier to add value in smaller businesses.
Sims argues there are very few businesses (with a value of $300 million or less) that are in a strong position. "Let's set aside the notion that smaller businesses offer higher returns. It's an embarrassing proposition," he retorts.
Minton says Archer's been working at this level for years and argues that its returns are evidence enough.
And so the audience applauds.
Fallick asks: why have private equity fees not come down?
Sims says there are constant rumours around fees and that remuneration is a difficult thing. The starting point for investors, when considering remuneration, should be what skill set are you buying? "The people in the PE firms are being paid market values. PEP has had to revise its cost base radically when US players came into the market to avoid losing people."
He says there seems to be more people seeking capital than there is available capital, and naturally the limited partners have more power and want to cut a better deal. "But you have to look at the cost base of the peculiar things you're asking us to do. You could argue the market value is too high, but we have to compete in the market for the best people."
Minton agrees: "If you can get a poor performing manger who is willing to do it at 1 per cent, that's not the answer."
Fallick tells Minton: "I didn't bring you up here to say I agree with Tim [Sims] to every question."
Fallick then asks if people are worried about exits, and investors worry about secondary sales and that PE firms are playing pass-the-parcel?
Minton says Archer bought four businesses and sold four last year and most of its exits were to trade buyers. He says there are strong balance sheets and natural owners out there. "On one of our investments the next phase required Asian growth. Assets get traded on the listed market all the time among people who have different views on value."
Today exit multiples are lower and there's a tension between carrying value and realisation value, Sims says, adding that people should have natural suspicion against secondary trade in an over-capitalised market. "But here, where the market isn't over-capitalised, there's often a natural buyer who can add incremental value."
Fallick says "you're never provocative Tim…"
He replies: "We want 3 and 30…"
Audience laughs.
On a nice sunny morning in Sydney – though a few delegates who were enjoying the late-night social scene seem a little shy of the sunlight – the second day of the AVCJ conference kicks off with a round table of economists moderated by Matthew Peter from QIC and consisting of Macquarie Group's Richard Gibbs, HSBC's Paul Bloxham and Justin Smirk from Westpac.
Matthew Peter asks the panel for views on China.
Paul Bloxham says he expects China to grow solidly, noting that of Australia's total exports only 4 per cent got to Europe and 70 per cent to Asia – 30 per cent to China alone.
He says Australia and the world has a two-speed economy. The key risk facing the world is what happens in Europe. And he does not see the structural problems of a union based on one currency being fixed yet. Europe has very high debt levels and countries in the union are tracking in different directions.
Another global risk is that oil prices stay high, driven by political unrest in Israel and Iran, and emerging economies driving up demand, which could result in slower global growth.
Justin Smirk says China is moving towards a more balanced view of growth, becoming less export focused. But it's not going to be a smooth path, as has happened with other countries, he says there will be periods of rapid and slower growth.
He notes that Australia's terms of trade has peaked. As China becomes more consumer orientated the cost of goods will go up and he believes we will head back to a situation similar to the 1970s and 1980s, but that is still probably a decade away.
Bloxham adds that China still has a lot more investment to do – for every person in China there is less than one tenth the capital stock compared to a developed economy. It has 80 cities larger than Sydney that need a subway system to be built.
Richard Gibbs says that China has a policy commitment to shift towards "the consumer" and target a lower growth rate. At the end of the day, he notes, this is a highly managed economy.
Peter asks if we have to rely on China only to save the world economy? What about other emerging economies?
Bloxham says India is about 10 to 15 years behind China. It has much less infrastructure but it will get there. He adds that emerging economies are exporting to one another.
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On Wednesday, Optus announced it had beat Telstra to win a $60 million contract with
Optus business managing director John Paitaridis said the deal was negotiated over six months, worth $60 million over five years and had originally been serviced by Telstra.
Both companies have been duelling for dominance in the cloud computing and technology service market.
Telstra's Network Applications and Storage (NAS) business provides corporate and government customers with cloud computing and video conferencing services. It's one of Telstra's fastest growing units, with revenue rising 17.7 per cent to hit $1.49 billion in the year ending June 30.
The company plans to use the NAS division to grow its cash flow as income from its fixed line phone call and Yellow Pages ads shrink.
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When asked about Telstra's increasingly frequent wins and expansion into the Asian region, Mr Paitaridis said Optus was the most trusted partner of choice for customers going into Asia.
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Ovum research director Kevin Noonan said both companies were reaping revenue increases by offering services at a price that was driving smaller technology service providers out of business. "Both of them have been pushing this hard [and] the smaller boutique service providers are feeling the pinch," he said. "There are commodity areas of technology where price and size of offering will just win through.
"The money right now is with the big players that can offer big discounts."
RBS Morgans senior analyst Nick Harris agreed but warned the revenue growth would sharply slow as major customers locked in contracts.
"The big driver is refresh cycles when existing contracts with overseas providers like your IBMs. . . expire," he said. "So the party stops to some extent when you've gotten through most of those contracts.
"A lot of five and 10-year managed service contracts for hundreds of millions of dollars are now being retendered, so there's a five-year window where all of that stuff will come through."
Separately, Telstra announced on Wednesday it had won a $71 million contract with Australia Post to supply 26,000 hand-held scanners that will be used to improve parcel tracking.
The contract will include access to Telstra's mobile network so that customers can see exactly where their packages are.
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TRAVELLERS camping illegally in Dorset can now be directed to a new council-run site near Dorchester.
Dorset County Council's summer-only transit site is now ready to use at Piddlehinton.
Work has been going on over the last few weeks to get it ready including installing CCTV cameras in the area to reassure firms at the enterprise park opposite, a planning condition requirement.
DCC is arranging to put a portable building on the land for management plus portable toilets.
All facilities will be temporary and removed when the site is not in use.
It will cater for up to 25 caravans between March and August until 2016, and will offer police somewhere to move visiting groups who come to Dorset and camp illegally. Having such a facility also allows authorities to act more swiftly to evict travellers if they refuse to leave unauthorised sites.
Planning permission was given at a heated meeting in May which was attended by local residents who spoke against the proposal.
Later, the Gypsy Council likened the site to a 'concentration camp', criticising the planned security measures.
Enterprise park traders have also spoke of their concerns.
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