Questions about 4SPEEDs ride
 

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How much lower than stock is your Ghia?
 

I have a 1970 Ghia that I would like to lower and use Porsche style wheels on. Am I correct in understanding that you have the same offset wheel all around? The 52mm offset wheels?

Do you have any problems with wheels rubbing & such?

Thanks in advance.

Kevin J Hale

What method did you use to lower the car?
 

What methods and how much did you lower the car? How is the ride quality with the Konis up front and the Bilsteins out back.

Any difference in turning radius?

Thanks in advance.

Kevin J Hale

Nice to see a ghia on GL.com! Welcome!

how much did you narrow the front & rear suspension in order to get those wheels to fit?

Bump.... I figure you didnt see this.

4Speed, please reply.

Has anyone heard from 4 speed?

are you talking about this 4speed or the one from Miami with the Silver 67 Beetle?

Neither of them has been seen on the net in a while.
In fact this 4Speed has never even posted here on this forum.

I am sorry not to answer you but I do not speak English but that will come!!

alex the frenchy

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/

Poteau en français, nous pouvons utiliser ce traducteur.
Post in french, we can use this translator.

does anyone know what type of trans is being used with this flat six ghia?

What a Ghia.........

6 cilinder... that's something thats can't been done in holland :(

Greet car

thanks RACELOOK

Rodolfo : I use stock transmisssion (8x31)

I am currently working on Ghia Flat six but I am planning to install the complete 2.7 CIS, along with its 915 trans. The only thing that am working on is the Motor Mounts & decididing wether I wanto keep the stock trans mounts or not.


What type of reinforment did you use on the back for the motor?

Hey 4SPEED, you're back!
 

Can you check my earlier posts questioning your methods for developing the car and give me some clue as to what you did?

Thanks in advance.

Kevin J Hale

Now, I have rims in 18 inches on the ghia with holds of 25 mm in front of thus I direct without any concern bilsteins is a very good suspension in firmness and koni enables me to regulate has wish the dureter.

Alex

P.S. with the 17 inches, I did not direct much I touched the suspension arms

Did you narrow the front axle beam or the rear trailing arms?

Your new wheels are 18" in diameter. How wide are they?
You are saying that they have a 25mm offset?

How did you lower the car?

Thanks in advance.

I didn't narrow the front axle beam or the rear trailing arms

I have to cut the wings of the ghia and I put expanders on the body

bye
Alex

What are expanders? Do you have any pictures?

Oh, what size front and rear offset are you using?

Thanks for helping with my Ghia

Hai dorigtt

Expanders is what he used on his fenders... That's the way he has widers his fenders. (you can see them on his ride, click on the underlined (link) WORD in de first answer in this topic..

Greetings Wiebrand

picture of expanders

sorry for a quality

4speed, your car looks great!
where did you get the expanders from ?

Great looking Ghia !
 

4Speed,

VERY nice !

Vujade .. worthy of a Feature I must say :D

Sandeep

Thanks;)

the expanders come from a golf 2

bye

I thought so! The rear arches have the little nub that mates with the side trim of the Golf!

SLICK LOOK 4SPEED.

How does it handle now? Do you have any problems with rubbing when turning or anything?

911 engine support
 

4speed waht type of support you have for the back of that 911 engine?

To turn I have any problem.

For the driving support, I manufactured a bar as for type 4

:eek: :eek:
Did you see the video of him passing the car going approx. 110 MPH? He must have been doing 140-150.
What a BEAST!!
Amazing car 4SPEED.:D

To which DORIGTT replys...WHAT VIDEO!!!!

C'MON, SHOW ME!!!

Here...
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/german.spirit/videos.html
Its 4SPEEDS website. Just click on the pic of the tach.
WOW.

Just listen!! :goodness:

WOW!!!:tisktisk: That is definately deviant behavior!

Which powerplant was 4speed running at the time? Please say it wasn't the Porsche engine.

That was cool as can be.

max speed
 

I double has 120 mph and I rolled until A 140 :silly: mph I was not further bus the frame did not follow afterwards!!!!

Since I installed the rims into 18 I did not have the occasion to test maximum speed!

I seek an arch for the karmann!! Know manufacturers?

Heigo ??made it of the arch for Karmann??

Thanks

Alex

I think he's asking if there are any aerodynamic products available for the rear of his ghia to increase downforce. Any suggestions?

Jason

It's been said already, But.... GREAT CAR! :D a real insperation for other Karmann Ghia.

Were the expanders difficult to install? :confused:

Again, The car looks great. :cool:

Ohhh yeah baby, that is absolutely cool!!!

Only one reaction possible:

:bowdown:

In french: C'est tres magnifique! Un Karmann avec un moteur de Porsche est un creation superbe... Je suis envieux!!

Grtz. Robin

Very nice ...........
Even withe the 18's and the wheel arches it's very subtle.


How about an Audi TT rear spoiler? after all they were specifically designed
to aid rear end stablility at speed

Hey 4 speed, your video is down, have another link?

Sorry, but no :bawling:

What dimensions did you use for the front strut mount locations?

Did you shorten the framehead or leave it the stock length?

Thanks

For the engine, I saw that you have a 993 TT engine. I'm thinking about doing the same. How well does the engine fit? Did you have to cut any major structures out, or just the deck around the engine? The G50 you have, is it a six speed, or a five speed?


Thanks a lot.