In super beetle world, when you talk of lowering, spindles dont count anymore.
www.toplineparts.com <===visit here to view all your options. There are several ways to lower your super:
1)cut the springs:
ghetto superstar! Cut a few coils out the spring, very bad idea, totally kills the ride, and is bad for the suspension
2)lowering springs:
here's a start. Check out topline. Top of the line products for supers. they offer regular springs, and tapered sport springs, which tapper in the center, to allow a larger offset wheel to be used, but it still limited to how much clearance you are allowed.
3)adjust-a-strut the first adjustable strut for supers. started by topline, copied to hell. 3-bolt allows up to 5 inch drop, 2-bolt later style allows up to around 3.5-4 maybe. Very safe, effective way to lower your super. Once this came around, topline discovered ways to rearrange the suspension geometry with little tricks here and there...ie caster-fix bushings for the swaybar, off-center hole in bushings forces swaybar more forward, making up for the natural pull rearwards the suspension causes when lowered.
4)MAXX struts, skinny coil-over style setup, allows use of large + offset wheels (ie prosche) more tricks in perfecting suspension geo, bumpsteer kit, toplines caster+ kit, etc.
Main rule:
do everything right the first time. And do not try and setup a suspension with new coil-overs, etc until everything else is inspected, repair/replaced/upgraded. This goes for tie rod ends, ball joints(tears in rubbber boots=bad), bent/damaged tie rods, bushings (meaning ALL the bushings, especially that idler arm bushing, this is the main cause of the shimmies! Replace everything!!!
Again, check out
www.toplineparts.com....