Aircooled VW South Africa

Well,i have started a thread a while ago but all my pics r missing,so ill start fresh,the project is gonna be a 72 beetle with a 6inch narrowed beem,and get it as low as i can.disc brakes in front with 2.1 w/c motor,,,front beam has been removed,shortened and s/drops been welded in,im gonna shorten the tower shocks,so that i dont have to cut on the body to much,,, ill post pics as i progress

I can't wait to see the progress on this! Phillip is a master of the bodywork - he did loads of work on the front end of my beetle and it looks amazing!

Ok,so ive shortened the beam,just finished sandblasting it,looks nice and clean,now to shorten those shock towers

Hey Phillip, looks good! If you dont mind me asking, how much did you take off each side? Cause your beam, for some reason looks longer than my 6" beam. Maybe its just the shock towers that make it look longer.

ive started the thread before i cut the beam,must say,if u havnt done a beam before,to cut of that ammount looks scary,i took of 13cm in total,so thats about 5 inches .'do u have any problems with turning and would u mind posting a pic of ur towers,thanx

As far as ive heard there is no problem with turning, but it all depends on how low you go. Did you cut from the middle or from the outside?
My beam doesnt have shock towers.

ive cut it behind the mounts,,but removed everything today,,since u got a 6 inch without any problems,im willing to go more,ive done some research on the samba and those guys go as much as 8inch and more,so i took out an extra 2 cm each side,so thats 8cm a side(screw the inch thing,just making myself confused),ill weld everything back together next week,and do a test fit,only the bodywork will be a bit more.

The inch thing becomes easier and easier as you start to do more reasearch into narrowed beams. For me the cutting of the beam was the easy part..the hard part will come when you have to shorten torsion leafs and tie rod assemblies.

If you get the time, go have a look at the Kustom Coach Werks site they have allot of usefull info on easy mods that can help allot.

1972 wrote:As far as ive heard there is no problem with turning, but it all depends on how low you go. Did you cut from the middle or from the outside?
My beam doesnt have shock towers.

Must say the first part was easy,,,ill def check out that site,,thanx man

Hloni dont start...we know its a delicate subject lol. Dont want to start another debate on how awesum shockless is

So if u dont have towers,r u using drop spindels.

Nope, im running with stock spindles and disk brakes and I have adjusters welded in.

Nice job so far , im also running a 6inch beam with dropped spindles and adjusters , i cut off my towers and made custom brackets to run shocks without cutting the body. The ride is er "interesting" specialy with the 2.7 pushing it from behind , as far as a turning circle its not to bad but some parking spaces need a bit of "work".I'l see if i have a pick of my beam somewhere .

Hey spiltfan ,that'll be cool if u can post a pic of ur beam,ive got an idea what im gonna do with mine,but its better to have more than one option,thanx