Flat 6 in the bus Split

[volkdent]

Originally Posted by skywalker

Just like this:

Not so sure that's a sound replacement for hacking out the middle of the torsion tube. The top square tube is welded to thin sheetmetal with no additional plate to spread the stress. That will fatigue in no time IMO.

Jason

Originally Posted by volkdent

Not so sure that's a sound replacement for hacking out the middle of the torsion tube. The top square tube is welded to thin sheetmetal with no additional plate to spread the stress. That will fatigue in no time IMO.

Jason

You are right Jason, but this picture was taken half way the modification. The modification was made by The Bug Box in Germany and they do know how to finish it too:



Just have a look at the whole project here (in German, but the pics will tell the story).

This is how I did mount my 914 gearbox in my splitbus, with parts of Martin from bugat5speed.



My complete project is now also available in English, here

[Hebster52]

What did you do to the torsionbars? Lose them and make some other spring system, Coilovers or what?

In my case I try to not cut into the torsiontube though...