Swing axle to irs

[ellobo]

No, It doesn't stiffen up the chassis. I would recommend the stiffening brace from eyeballengineering.
http://www.eyeball-engineering.net/F...stiffners.html

Or, you could fabricate your own. Here's one I did from 1 1/4 " square tubing...





The clips I got were from Vee Dub Parts Unlimited in Huntington Beach, Ca.
https://www.vwparts.net/Merchant2/me...y_Code=CHASSIS

Good Luck.

[Bad bug]

Does the area where the clip sits see any loading on the chasis.

[ellobo]

It shouldn't affect "loading". The clip is welded onto the torsion tube and fills the cut away in the frame horns.

But, When this breaks. The entire chassis will twist. That's the reason for the additional gussett and square tubing.

[Bad bug]

Do you have any documented proof of any chasis twisting after this conversion. I intend to put a 2.0l t4 in my bug then maybe a 2.8l in the future .

[ellobo]

Nope, nothing documented.....Just plenty of rewelding after good weekend of thrashing. So, go ahead and toss in a 2.0l t4 or a 2.8l or for that matter a V8....

Just do something like this first.....

[Bad bug]

I was thinking of running a kafer cup brace. I bought keith seume's book on vw beetle performance and it was stating that the kafer cup racers convert their swing axle cars to irs for racing. It wasn't sugested that their would be a problem.