TheSamba.com :: View topic - Non VW Parts (disc brakes, steering, etc)2 use on VW

Mon Aug 03, 2009 7:06 am

thats um.... quite a shock

Fri Aug 07, 2009 10:42 am

Keep it coming guys, I know you have the ideas out there... there is no need to keep it a secret. lol. Let's not let this threat die, this info is too important.

Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:39 pm

great thread! great pics!

Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:17 pm

vwlownslo69@hotmail.com wrote: great thread! great pics!

Thank you, this post has slowed to a crawl for now, hopefully some of our brothers will share some more info with us and help the cause. I feel like Sally Struthers begging for money. Sheesh.. lol

Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:55 am

HAHA I haven't forgotten about pics of the Chevy stuff. My friend is working hard to get them done for Labor Day. He just got done with a GM Ecotec motor swap into his buggy but he's been making progress on the arms. He was able to get a pair of sealed bearing hubs with the drive flanges and a pair of axles for less than $100 from a local U-Pull-It. This is shaping up to be a strong, cheap upgrade for buggies.

Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:39 pm

Wow... I wish I had a shop capable of doing all of that machining and stuff you guys do.

Fri Aug 28, 2009 8:22 am

Not quite as awesome as that rail front end, but the middle seat out of a mid-90s to early 2000 Caravan is the perfect width for a fat chick back seat. A little tweaking of the factory Chrysler brackets and you can even make it easily removable with a couple of bolts.

Fri Aug 28, 2009 12:21 pm

Freak182 wrote: Not quite as awesome as that rail front end, but the middle seat out of a mid-90s to early 2000 Caravan is the perfect width for a fat chick back seat. A little tweaking of the factory Chrysler brackets and you can even make it easily removable with a couple of bolts.

how does the headroom compare to a stock bug back seat? that thing seems like it's up a bit higher than the bug seat.

Fri Aug 28, 2009 5:09 pm

It almost balances out, it looks like it sits a lot higher than stock because of the space under it but the seat itself is about 1/2 the thickness of the stock bottom and is less hard. Without modification to the base, you probably lose about 1-1.5" of head room but my 5'11" son can sit back there and not touch his head on the roof. The nice thing is the metal plates on the bottom have room for about a 3" drop if so desired. I didn't do that because the way it sits now, when folded down, it is level with the rear package tray. Unlike the stock seat, this one does fold completely flat.

Mon Aug 31, 2009 7:59 pm

That's sweet. Is there much benefit of it folding down? OH wait.... You can carry your tools to work and not get the seat all goobered up.

Tue Sep 01, 2009 10:47 am

Yup, that too. The best part is with mine being a baja, it is a great place to put a couple of big Coleman coolers side-by-side:)

Wed Sep 02, 2009 8:40 am

Cip1 sells a bolt on drilled rotor for the front spindle (chevy/porshe bolt pattern for link pin) that a willwood or clone caliper works on (a kit includes some stock type Ghia calipers and mounts). I added a micro stub alum wheel flange from dunebuggy.com that has a 5 bolt chevy pattern in the center and a wide five on the outside. Cip1 also sells very beefy forged chromoly spindles for a reasonable price but stock should work. On the rear I bought 31 spline micro stub carrier bearings attached them to trailing arms I built, used a inexpensive off the shelve chevy s10 rotors and calipers (up grade is the vette calipers and drilled/slotted rotors). No parts machining involved.

Fri Sep 04, 2009 5:22 pm

Freak182 wrote: Not quite as awesome as that rail front end, but the middle seat out of a mid-90s to early 2000 Caravan is the perfect width for a fat chick back seat. A little tweaking of the factory Chrysler brackets and you can even make it easily removable with a couple of bolts.

OK, thats sweet. I'm definately gonna do that one. i hat my old torn up, bent framed stock seat, lol.

Fri Oct 16, 2009 10:52 am

94 s10 calipers $14 each @auto zone
94 jeep wangler rotors $18 each @ checker auto
94 s10 pads $10 checker auto
late model bus has two peace small five bolt pattern hub that jeep and ford wheels and rotors slip over the inner hub. slide it all on and fab up a bracket for the caliper and you have 10 x the brakes.

This also works for cars also but you have to cut and drill the brake drums to fit in the rotor . not hard but not everyone has a lathe.

I have pictures but cant figure out how to post.

Mon Jul 05, 2010 5:16 pm

joenut wrote: 94 s10 calipers $14 each @auto zone
94 jeep wangler rotors $18 each @ checker auto
94 s10 pads $10 checker auto
late model bus has two peace small five bolt pattern hub that jeep and ford wheels and rotors slip over the inner hub. slide it all on and fab up a bracket for the caliper and you have 10 x the brakes.

This also works for cars also but you have to cut and drill the brake drums to fit in the rotor . not hard but not everyone has a lathe.

I have pictures but cant figure out how to post.

I know this is a very late reply, but have you figured out how to post pics yet? I would love to see them. Do you have any links to some forum topics on this? Give us more on this bro. It really sounds great.

Tue Jul 06, 2010 9:23 am

Funny thing is, related to this thread.
My son autocrosses a Honda.
He wanted to do an upgrade on his brakes.
The brake upgrade on a Honda Civic, is to put VW brakes on it.
Corrado brakes.