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 VWFOOL
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| posted on September 18th, 2002 at 10:04 PM |
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beetle: Narrowing the beam
hi guys
does anyone hav any experience with narrowing the front or rear beams on a beetle?
does anyone suggest someone who can carry out this kind of work?
thanks for your help..
sam
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 vw54
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| posted on September 19th, 2002 at 08:10 AM |
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Sam
I can understand narrowing the front end for tyre clearence etc etc
but why would you want to narrow the rear ???
Talk with Michael at VVDS he had just done one for his car and he has set of components to build another one. 9789-1777
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no slow 63
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| posted on September 19th, 2002 at 09:58 AM |
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I've narrowed and raised the rear end of my 63 , and it's a pretty big job , especially when the body is still on.
Narrowing the front beam is quite easy.
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| posted on September 22nd, 2002 at 10:40 PM |
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you can narrow the rear beam to accomodate much larger rear tyres if you're not using the torsion bars. Just cut it and move spring plate
attachment on the traling arm to suit and then you can stuff some 295...330 whatever under there. Anyone know a creative engineer? |
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