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Adrian, I am going to tell you a widely unknown fact. The early steel trailing arms for the 944 and the bug have exactly the same dimensions. Identical units except for one thing, the 944 units are internally braced and weigh several pounds more than the bugs. The 944 arms would be great for off road, massive horsepower, or a split bus to irs conversion. They work fine on a bug, I am just trying to lighen the unsprung weight of the assembly.
The adj spring plates from the 944 should also work fine if the rubber bushing match up to the bug torsion housing. Swayaway makes an adj spring plate for the bug which looks exactly like the 944 one or close enough to be clones. The adj plates are used to weight balance the four corners of the car so it handles both left and right the same. They can also be used to adjust the ride height in the rear somewhat without having to reset the rear torsion bars. They may change the camber when adjusted.
The front weight balance on a super beetle can probably be adj using shims under the springs or between the strut and body mounts. On a beam bug it doesn't look like you can. A dual adjuster could probably be make using two beam adjusters side by side and cutting the spring pack in to and drilling new grub screw holes. If would not be much use unless you are racing or trying to balance my 325lbs to with the side with no passenger. Hope some of this helps.
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