First off, there's nothing wrong with being clueless -- as long as you know it (which you admitted) and you're researching your way out of it (which you stated in your last post). I'm sure a significant amount of my posts are research oriented. Heck, I didn't even buy my Super until a year and a half after my first post here.
Now, about your project.
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Originally Posted by hey its antman
this car is a 71 super Beetle ... I even know the wheels I want to put on this car
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By the way of coincidence, mine is a '71 Super and my first "known" was the wheels I wanted. I was willing to abondon ship on these wheels if their feasibility didn't exist. I don't think you will need to abandon ship either. But, a wheels-first approach is much more research intensive. Be prepared for that.
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Originally Posted by hey its antman
I want to lower this car without going broke ... I want to be able to lower the car and raise it whenever I need to ... How do I lower this car at all four corners? ... Who has the cheapest good set up for what I want? ... I will not pay $1000 for a set of coilovers for this car
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The only set-up I ever found which allows raising and lowering at will was Kerscher. But by the time you have them shipped from Europe, it will be $1000.
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Originally Posted by zen
first, you can't always have your cake and eat it to. if you want to adjust height at the drop of a hat, it will cost you. coilovers are the best way to allow that functionality on the super.
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Very true.
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Originally Posted by hey its antman
If I go with the "Topline Maxx Struts". Would I have to get all four corners? ... Give me some other ideas as to front struts and lowering it up front without going $400 plus?
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Originally Posted by NO_H2O
You can get adjust-s-struts and a tapered sport spring from TopLine ... but the MaxxStruts will give the most room of all your bolt on options.
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MaXX struts are $449, I believe. You may be able to go with Adjust-a-Struts and Sports+ springs from TopLine. I don't know.
NO_H2O's suggestions in his post are worth re-reading in their entirety. As he said, talk to Jon at TopLine. But if Adjust-a-Struts and Sports+ would work with the wheels you want, the cost would be less. The struts are for front only.
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Originally Posted by hey its antman
Anyone running "Wire wheels"?? I'm going for the Maxx struts set up and 4 drilled drums.
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I want to replace the bumpers and head light benzel ... I know I want a roof rack.
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Originally Posted by hey its antman
I want to have a company like CP1 to make me a set of drums in 4 x 100 lug pattern. That will cost me around $300 for all four
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Okay, here's where I'm going to come down hard on you. Don't take it personally. I mean it in a constructive sense.
Firstly, I hope your query is in reference to seeing if anyone has done the wire wheel route before rather than researching wheels. I know you said you didn't want to go the Porsche route because that course of action has been played. If you're researching wheels, we are all chasing our collective tails.
Secondly, it sounds like you decided on MaXX struts. That could make TopLine your one-stop shop. As stated in other posts, there are other sponsors of this site that could be as well.
Thirdly, TopLine has front disk brakes for $299 (I think). It is bolt-on enough my shop thinks I can help. TopLine can have them drilled for a 4x100 pattern. (They did mine in a 5x100 pattern). They can redrill your rear drums that way as well, but you may want to research some place locally for that.
I would abandon
ALL other modifications -- cosmetic, functional or performance -- before I would abandon converting the front brakes to disk.
In my opinion, Volkswagen making Beetles and Super Beetles with a 1600cc engine and not making the front brakes as disks as they did in the European arena was inexcusable.
The difference in price in re-drilling your four drums and going with TopLine's front disks in a 4x100 pattern with re-drilled rears can be offset by roofracks, bumpers and the like.
Those accessories can be had later when the budget allows.
That's my opinion.