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Atl Darrick
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Location: atlanta
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paints done
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advinnie
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Location: oxfordshire
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| Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 1:17 pm Post subject: |
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paints done
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Mate how wide are your front and rear wheels?
Are the wings stock width?
How narrowed is your beam?
Your ride look wicked mate  |
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dirtylawnchair
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Joined: January 26, 2004
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Location: Bradenton FL
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| Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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| advinnie wrote: |
Mate how wide are your front and rear wheels?
Are the wings stock width?
How narrowed is your beam?
Your ride look wicked mate |
adv - Look on page 90.
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advinnie
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Joined: November 18, 2011
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Location: oxfordshire
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| Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 2:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Cheers mate |
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bugzy'65
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Joined: April 30, 2014
Posts: 82
Location: Pakistan .
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| Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 9:31 am Post subject: Re: Pictures of tire, wheel, and suspension thread for FAQ's |
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| glandnut wrote: |
I stumbled onto this same thread topic in the Split bus forum, and thought it was an excellent way to consolidate the many suspension questions and examples that always pop up in the beetle forum. What tire front/back? How narrow? How many notches out back? What shocks when lowered? Spindles or adjustable beam? Wheel widths? Etc. I think this will be a great way to have a wholistic pictoral view of all the mods necessary to make these cars sit and handle how we deem fit. I personally feel every type specific forum should have these as stickies so we can clean up many of the common questions and requests while providing an ongoing research and resource thread. Plus it gives us a chance to pimp our rides to the other samba members so we can put a car with the face at shows, etc. Thanks again to Everett who gave us this killer site that I can't live without.
So.. without further ado:
(PLEASE STAY ON TOPIC SO THIS CAN BE A USER FRIENDY RESOURCE, NOT WHO IS LOWER OR COOLER OR WHATEVER)
Please post a side or angled picture of your lowered beetle and specs:
-Tire make and size.
-Wheel make, size or offset.
-Spindle drop, beam narrowed dimensions. Who's make?
-spring plate mods and extensions, number of splines down. Who's?
-Tubbed, cut torsion, short axle or long axle, swing to IRS, etc..
-Tie rod flip kits, caster shims, etc.
-Brakes- disc/drum, type 3 drums out back, etc. - what brand used?
-shocks/no shocks- what brand.
-If I ever do this again I would have...........
I'll start it out.
FRONT
Michelin XZX 145/15
Appliance "Pacers", powder-coated, 5.5"
Volksfab 4" narrowed beam with Berg adjusters, NOS needle bearings
CB drop spindles, rebuilt by me w/ NOS king and link kit
Caster shims- 1 set, no flip kit
Old NOS KYB heavy duty "reds"
Stock wide 5 drums brakes
REAR
Falken 205/65/15
Appliance"Pacer", 5" deep-dish.
Short axle 65' transaxle
Lowered using a protractor to set splines exactly where I wanted
NOS torsion bar bushings
Stock Cofap blacks
Stock wide 5 drum brakes
I loved this stance with the Pacers, I might have picked the rear up a hair as the camber was a little too much for my liking.
FRONT
Same tire and suspension as above except wheels
Rostyle- "South African Sprintstar", 4.5"
REAR
Same as above except wheel and tire
Sigma? 165/15
Rostyle- "South African Sprintstar", 4.5"
If I was to change anything: I will widen the rear Rostyles to 6" so I can run the 205/65/15 out back to fill out that rear fender. I will be chroming the SA Sprints very soon. I'm too apprehensive to try and stuff a 205/65 on that 4.5" wheel. The car rides a little more bouncy than stock as I am almost sitting on the rear snubbers, but this is typical of lowered swing axle cars. Back of the headlight buckets slightly rub when a big bump hits during a sharp turn, I picked up the bottom Berg adjuster one tooth and it doesn't scrub the buckets any more. Having the adjusters set so they fight each other a bit makes a HUGE difference in ride quality. The Volksfab beam is second to none in quality. |
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Hello bro ! Will these 205/65/15 fit stock beetle smoothies on my 66' ?? I want to get the same figment with the rear fender in the second picture ! ? |
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jaconty
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Joined: June 19, 2014
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Location: Poland
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2014 7:11 am Post subject: Re: Wheels |
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wheels custom empi lemmerz sprinstar 5"x17" 6"x17" 165/40/17 195/40/17
suspension airride system
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Where did the 17" Sprintstars come from? I've never seen those before |
This alloy own production based on Lemmerz steel, and 17 " OZ , I built it with a friend |
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jays58s
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Joined: August 23, 2004
Posts: 2133
Location: Nor-Cal
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| I've already looked all over the site trying to find info on drop spindle offsets. I have a 1964 bug, link pin front end, obviously. I put on some drum brake drop spindles, but I have no idea on the brand and they are NOT welded. I have a CB Performance 2" narrowed beam and Empi Rader wheels. I measured the distance from the flat part of my 135 tires, to the outside edge of the fender before installing the spindles and the tire sat in 2-1/2". Now with the drop spindles, the tire only sits in just shy of 1-1/2". Has anyone ever done any actual measuring between before and after adding drop spindles? |
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Krmnnghia
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Joined: March 28, 2005
Posts: 797
Location: Michigan, Land of salty roads!
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| For all you guys driving static in the weeds...are your front apron bottoms just torn all to hell? I love the look and have driven lowered vehicles for years but when that apron is about 2-3" off the ground and it has nice paint on it. oof! |
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advinnie
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Joined: November 18, 2011
Posts: 1389
Location: oxfordshire
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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| If you drive a low static bug expect to lose some paint that's why I've fitted air shocks. |
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beetleporsche1967
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Joined: June 24, 2011
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Location: Middleboro Ma.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2014 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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Rebuilt my car and went with the airshocks. 4" narrowed beam drop spindles. 3 outer splines in the rear. Air shocks all around with airlift compressors. 16" x 6.5" in the front. 16" x 8" in the rear
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bugandxbandme
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Joined: November 09, 2009
Posts: 162
Location: Richmond, VA
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| Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2014 6:16 am Post subject: |
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| @beetleporshe67 Wow, interesting wheels on a bug. I'm used to seeing those on xB's from the Scion forum. |
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beetleporsche1967
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Location: Middleboro Ma.
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| I like to be different. It wasnt fun getting the rite offset. Had to build them a few times. |
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j-dub
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Joined: November 09, 2003
Posts: 865
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Having trouble searching through this thread, can somebody post some pictures of a 175/65/15 on a 4.5' wheel? Is it to bulgy? I am trying to keep the height of the 145r15 and there is not many choices.
Thanks in advance,
Jeremy
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Mayor Marion Berry
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Joined: August 30, 2014
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Location: Fredericksbug VA
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Not exact, but my 59 has 175/55 in the back, 145/65 tires up front. All on 15x4 smoothies.
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62RagAZ
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Location: Peoria, Arizona
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My 62 with a 2" narrowed front beam, all the way down, 2.5" rear drop plates with a 1" tranny raise. 145 tires upfront and 165 in the rear, front wheels are 4.5" and rear is 5".
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bobleo873
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Location: la puente
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| Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2014 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Im going to be lowering my bug pretty soon and I've been trying to do the most research I can. I plan to be on the floor (: question tho. .. why flip the tie rods?? |
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j-dub
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Location: Phoenix, AZ
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1957 Type 1
Front - 3.5' narrowed beam, 2.5" dropped spindles, adjusters
Rear - adjusted many times, not sure of current angle, camber comp
Front - 175/65/15's on 4.5" sprint stars
Rear - 205/65/15's on 5.5 sprint stars
Just swapped out 145s up front for these and man what an improvement in turning/handling.
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Sahall
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Location: Texas
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| Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2014 4:39 pm Post subject: |
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Does anybody know the biggest tire size you can fit on stock width smoothies?
Would 205/70 be safe? |
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Stock66
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Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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| Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2014 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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| I have 195/65s all the way around on the stock wheels. I bought it that way. I wouldn't go any wider |
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goualon69
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Location: Quebec, Canada
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| Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2014 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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Do you have to grease rear wheels bearing or what?
when lowered a swing axle? |
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