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vwkafer
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 Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 12:40 pm Post subject: Long travel and other sorts |
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I Know jack about Super beetles. I have A 71 super beetle and I would like any info about long travel suspensions. or at least how to lift it.
I have built sand rails and a 1968 standard baja bug. I love vw inspired cars and they off road better than my truck. any help would be appreciated |
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67bajabug
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| Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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| you could cut and crank the front. |
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vicsvw
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| Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2004 7:32 am Post subject: Lift ? |
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Not much you can do with the SB
There are special spindels that will lift it a little. Vic.
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HamburgerBrad
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as far as i know, there are no raised spindles for the SB. youre pretty much limited to stock height or lower
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HamburgerBrad
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| 67bajabug wrote: | | you could cut and crank the front. |
definitely cant do this. SB uses coil springs and struts instead of torsion leaves in a beam front end
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if you have the time and skill, you can fab spacer blocks to mount between the struts and upper mounts which will provide a little lift to the front end, but you are pretty limited by the narrow travel of the control arms.
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| I wouldn't try off-roading with a SB. A couple of good bumps and the whole front end will be junk. |
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HamburgerBrad
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actually, i've seen photos of this guy who took an early SB off roading and wound up a few feet in the air. on multiple occasions. the car wound up lasting less than a month
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vwkafer
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My friend has a 71 standard beetle.  I took his standatd beetles pan and put my super body on it. (It's already got a baja kit on it.) I also put a 3 inch body lift on it. Now I don't have to worry about the super suspension. Oh they do make lifted spindles but whats the point you will still loose the suspension. |
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vwkafer
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| bljones wrote: | | if you have the time and skill, you can fab spacer blocks to mount between the struts and upper mounts which will provide a little lift to the front end, but you are pretty limited by the narrow travel of the control arms. |
If I wated to I'm pretty sure I could fab a new front suspension. I've noticed that if I can fab a spacer block from the pan head to the controll arms and that spacer block between the strut and upper mount I can get really high but again no matter how high I get it i will still be limited by the travel of the struts. + the struts will break if you apply to much pressure to them. not to mension the tie rods. I would have to extend them to be able to controll the car. Neat idea but doing this would be mostly for show. |
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lifting a sb, although possible, would be good for looks only. strut spacer increase height but not travel. Hack off the front end and either swap in a bj or lp front end or go full custom with coil-overs (probably easier depending on skill and material at hand). the IRS in the rear can be set up in some pretty trick ways.
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