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Okay chaps, time to sort out steering on the GTi. Who's knows what about quick racks. Has any body fitted one? Where can I em? and how much?

Basically, for road use, don't.

I have a feeling the GTi has less turns lock to lock, compared to the normal Mk5 anyway.

Redline wrote:I have a feeling the GTi has less turns lock to lock, compared to the normal Mk5 anyway.

really! do you have any figures?

I don't have figures with me at the minute, but going off memory from the original Autocar road test I have a gut feeling it mentions quicker steering.

I had a mk4 polo a few years ago and it did seem a lot less responsive, ie. you had to turn the wheel more to get the wheels to turn.

I'd be surprised if anyone even makes a close rack for the polo, it's normally the sort of thing that only goes on rally/race cars.

The nearest you'll experience to short rack in a road car is in a Mini Cooper S (proper mini, not the BMW ones). A short rack is fun when you're doing city driving speeds, feels really responsive and you feel everything but when your doing 50mph+ it starts to get a bit hairy. Honda Integras also have a quite a short rack, fine machines that they are.

Yeah your right, maybe a quick rack would be overkill. Its just my Brothers 6N 1.4 16v steerings feels a litttle more positive.

My previous car a 2002 Punto Sporting, the steering was impressively direct. There are a couple of roundabouts which I could negotiate effortlessly. The GTi however requires a little more work

Rally Spec Polo = 2 turns lock to lock
Punto Sporting = 2.5 turns lock to lock
Polo Gti = 2.9 turns lock to lock
BMW Mini Cooper S = 2.5 turns lock to lock