was wondering, rather than doing an irs conversion to the back of a swing axle pan (beetle), is it possible to instead add a balljoint frontend to a super beetle pan?
Yes the americans were selling a bolt on kit, but I haven't seen or heard of it for several years now. The alternative would be to remove the hammerhead off the sbug pan and weld on the balljoint framehead
I think you can buy new frame heads cheap also.
My drag car has such a conversion.
yep there are a few cars getting around in Oz that have been converted that way. Keep in mind where the identity nuimber is on the pan 
http://www.clubvw.org.au/jurgo.htm
Jurgo's old car was a super with a beam cut onto it.
B-I-G job - but...............
After market decent pans are hard to find. And good original pans are worth their weight in gold
Unless your super pan is really brilliant - i would restore a 76 pan.
If this is for a road registered car, be careful that the serial number of the pan in on the rear part and the year of the pan and the modification might cause the dreaded ADRs to rear their ugly heads. If that's relevent, check that before you do anything.
South Africian 1303 Supers with curved windscreen had king pin front ends.... and wide 5 stud wheels....
I have never seen under the bonnet etc to see how it was done....
but its much easier when they are being made from new..
I take it You want a Ball joint torsion bar front end and IRS rear end...
My 1968 Semi Auto has both...
and was made in Western Germany ....
Lee
http://community.webshots.com/user/vw68autobug
its a much easy job to convert a bj sa to IRS
my 70 beetle has a sqaureback arse end grafted in
much safer to than welding in a whole new bulkhead as all u have to weld in is the trailing arm pivots instead of the entire front od the chassis
76 pans are pretty hard to come by these days
even semi autos arent as common as they once were
Lee theres a bloke i;ve met up in bris a few times that comes to alot of the events that has that green south african bug
there just like a standard bug under the hood cept for the Lbug freshair box under the windscreen
[ Edited on 22-12-2006 by DUB74L ]
I took some pics of it at Nambucca??
or the Nationals in Sydney....
but never saw who owned it, so i could take some pics of under the hood....
He'll be in trouble if He ever has a prang.... lol...
I would think that its the only South Africian 1303 in
Australia...
Lee
he was at the last drive in night we held as far as he knows its the only one in aus
but yeah if its damaged hes in trubble thats a one off bonnet that u;d never be able to replace
-Joel
Yep that south african belongs to my mate Marcus aka DUBB61, it's a unique dub.
Excuse the plug, but if balljoint IRS is what you want.... I have a factory one for desperate sale.