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Double A arm IFS on a VW?
pete wood - August 29th, 2005 at 04:12 PM

Been thinking about this on and off for a while. Figured it might be a good. Has anyone else thought about it or considered it? Better still has anyone done it?

Be good for the drags and circuit racing as well as offroad.

I figured the best thing might be to get the whole front end out of a late model jap thingo and then weld in parts of a beam front end so that you could bolt it up to the front of the pan. You could extend your wheel base by a few inches in the process if you wanted. Any ideas for a good front end doner?

Have to be similar track and brake size otherwise it would be too exy to change other stuff over.

wibble - August 29th, 2005 at 08:01 PM

check out US sites they've been doing it for years.

speedster356 - August 29th, 2005 at 08:23 PM

Ricola on this site has some CAD drawings of a front end he was developing.
http://www.ricola.co.uknn[ Edited on 29-8-2005 by speedster356 ]

Anthiron - August 29th, 2005 at 11:23 PM

heres one.

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/2048/aarmbaja1tw.jpgnn[ Edited on 29-8-2005 by Anthiron ]

WABaja - August 30th, 2005 at 02:48 AM

That just looks wrong... Why is the motor hanging so far back....???

Doug Sweetman - August 30th, 2005 at 10:40 AM

It looks like it crapped itself......

Or a bit like a spider. Nice front suspension though....

pete wood - August 30th, 2005 at 11:49 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by speedster356
Ricola on this site has some CAD drawings of a front end he was developing.
http://www.ricola.co.uknn[ Edited on 29-8-2005 by speedster356 ]


Yeah I saw rich's setup ages ago. What I was thinking was using a Jap front end not a custom made one. That way getting it engineered for rego will be so much easier. I wouldn't even start with anything the yanks do. It's all so high dollar and custom it's way too exy and breaks most of our ADRs.

fastnuf - August 30th, 2005 at 01:22 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by WABaja
That just looks wrong... Why is the motor hanging so far back....???



Probably because the Yanks lengthen the wheelbase of their race and pre-runner cars.

malcolm - August 30th, 2005 at 09:21 PM

mitsubishi L300 thats whats going in my oval and will pass vicroads adr $100 complete with disc brakes 82 model .

VWCOOL - August 30th, 2005 at 09:34 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by WABaja
That just looks wrong... Why is the motor hanging so far back....???


Um, looks like the motor is in the right place to me... just has alot of stuff hanging behind it

pete wood - August 31st, 2005 at 11:05 AM

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Originally posted by malcolm
mitsubishi L300 thats whats going in my oval and will pass vicroads adr $100 complete with disc brakes 82 model .


what's the difference in track width and stuff?
Have you changed the springs? I would had thought they be a bit too stiff for a bug.

malcolm - September 8th, 2005 at 02:42 AM

narrow 70mm to 90mm,using hammer head pan mount front end 35 to 50mm above seam and the front will be lowered to give around 130mm ground clearence and will also give you full suspension travel.Haven,t work out the spring rate yet need the car almost completed to work out where the angle of the wishbones will be at the correct height then you measure the height between the lower and upper wishbone inside to give you a compression height and compair this to the uncompressed spring and woek out the weight of the front of the car . I,ll do the measurments then go to King springs and let them work out the spring rates they will be different to a super bug spring rates due to macpherson strut to double wishbone .I hope this helps and good luck.Hot rods use the same front end.