Which coil-over shocks do I use?
 

I want to upgrade my front and rear suspension to use coil-over shocks in the hopes of gaining better stability at speed and while under braking. The car currently has K+L + Swing axel suspension (not the best for cornering, but it is a straight line car anyway).

I was hoping that people could let me know what brands and types (spring weights etc) of coil-overs they've used to convert their suspension to coil-over only.

Also, how does one go about removing the rear torsion bars, for a coil-over conversion. Is it as simple as pulling out the torsion bars and putting it back together? Thats about the only part of a VW i've never disassembled... :)

As for the front suspension.. Whats the best approach to removing the front torsions while still maintaining independant suspension? Using a thru-bar of sorts like the red-9-design kit?

Suggetsions,, thoughts....


Cheers,

Ian Swinkels.

Check out Spax for their raceline series. They came recommended to me by a gentleman who races in the Kafer Cup series...

These are excerpts from two e-mails between he and I.

"For SPAX racing suspension you can look here:
http://www.spax.co.uk/SPAX-competition-page.html
To use them in a beetle you have to remove the torsion bars and replace them
by a axle with ball bearings (hard to explain - especially in english)."


"I only used SPAX G616 for the front - for the rear I used Bilstein shocks
and Porsche 944 turbo torsions bars (more due to evolution than any other
reason).
Clearance is not a problem - lots of space left...
The 1st and 2nd place of the German Boxerpokal 2004 (www.boxerpokal.de) went
to 1200, not 1303 Beetles :-)
But it's easier to adjust the front suspension of a 1303 - takes quite some
time to find a good setup for the 1200 front shocks."

Good luck