Aircooled VW South Africa

Found the following site: http://www.eyeball-engineering.net/ they make, amongst other things, a Double A Arm Coil Over Front Suspension for the VW to replace the normal front suspension. A question to the fabricators on the forum, what would a similar setup cost locally? They ask $3000

Full set of wishbones, 8 -10 grand, Rose joints R500 a pop (ten of them), steering rack a couple of grand, Shocks at 2 grand a pop, other plates and fabrication time ( probably 10-15 grand), School fees (0-20 grand).

This is if you use a good fabricator. AND you will still need uprights...

Import is cheaper...and that price seems good! an inboard conversion for my race car is about 16 grand and that is only mounting points, wishbones, rockers and conversion of existing parts to fit. So i still use my shocks and uprights...just saying.

Why couldn't you take a scrap front end off a modern car and adapt it to your purposes?

your school fees will cost far far more than importing one...

Hey guys

Been pondering on this as well... Here is another site it's Uk based.

Sorry cant load pics from iPad.

http://www.red9design.co.uk/type1.htm

Red9 Design
Our framehead kit bolts on to the front of your chassis, replacing the beam. Comes complete to the spindles and includes rack and pinion steering. Adjustable for height, stiffness, camber, caster and toe! Price is £1325.00



So how about a Chinese type operation? Buy one as a group buy and reverse engineer it?

The Red 9 one is so much cheaper because they dont use rose joints. Our fabricators can knock up those pretty quickly. If you gave them one to copy then no problems. I still dont know if you will get one made to a good enough quality for cheaper than 20 grand...

Well... If u calculate 200£ courier plus 30% import fee plus 14% vat... It comes to around R30000
So if someone can build a full one like that properly is actually worth it.... No?

For race purpose yes! It will improve road holding quite a bit if set up properly. But i doubt if its worth the money for a road car.
A trailing arm suspension offer better ride qaulity than a double wishbone or mc pherson strut suspension.
(trailing arms gives a softer ride)