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 greeno72
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| posted on May 2nd, 2010 at 07:34 PM |
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swapping 58 onto?????pan
i have a beaut 58 shell and want to put an irs pan under it . I know superbug's are no good but up until what year can i use for this.
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| posted on May 3rd, 2010 at 07:36 AM |
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For a manual gearbox IRS pan with torsion bar front, your only option is the 1976 Beetle - and not many of them left.
The '68-70 1500 Beetle semi-auto is another option, but you'll have to convert to manual if you don't want semi-auto. The manual Beetles of those
years were swing-axle.
Your only other option is to replace the Superbug pan's frame-head with a torsion bar frame head and beam. A good VW workshop could do this for you.
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| posted on May 3rd, 2010 at 07:49 PM |
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if the IRS is all your after it would be much easier just to do a gearbox swap and do an IRS conversion.... we've done a couple and they work great!
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| posted on May 4th, 2010 at 10:19 AM |
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hey greeno72.... consider yourself very lucky, those two responses above have pretty well defined all your options. Not a bad effort for this
website.
So, give or take a couple of routine fiddly details, those are your choices.
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| posted on May 4th, 2010 at 11:47 AM |
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Agree with Adam,
i would much sooner trust a pair of welded on trailing arm pivots than an entire rewelded frame head
its also a much smaller job to weld in a pair of pivots than the whole front frame head
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greeno72
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| posted on May 4th, 2010 at 03:38 PM |
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thanks very much for your advice on this matter will start looking into the three options
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| posted on May 4th, 2010 at 05:01 PM |
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If you use a 76 pan and the vehicle is registered using the original 76 chassis number.......then your car must comply with the ADR's for
1976.................this includes emissions, and anti burst doors, and a 58 shell does'nt have anti burst door looks !!
Best to use a semi auto pan or convert.
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