My car has the beam front suspension Alex.
According to a guy I spoke/had an email dialoge with, some of the fastest cars in the racing series found at
www.boxerpokal.de are the the beam suspension cars. I've been having a serious internal battle with myself as to which way to go. Keeping the beam suspension is obviously easier, but for what I'm going to be using it for will it be best?
Here is a quote from the e-mail that I got from this gentleman.
"Hi Kevin,
of course it's easier to turn a 02 or 03 into race car but the 1200 just
looks better ;-)
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 used one 19mm anti roll bar in the front and a 14mm one (Porsche 944) in
the rear for hill races and added a second one for track racing
(
http://www.csp-shop.de/cgi-bin/shop2...&wkid=69585125
440)."
"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.
But the big advantage of the 1200 is the weight - as soon as you know how to
setup your front, a 1200 should be faster than a 1303..."
This goes against alot of what people think is the hot set-up for the VW aircooled cars. But the record speaks for itself I guess.