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Old January 27th 2010, 08:41
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Old January 27th 2010, 09:56
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Old January 31st 2010, 21:02
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not sure on that one.... I've been meaning to scale the alu arms compared to the VW/944 steel ones. I'll try and do that and get back with some hard numbers.

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not sure on that one.... I've been meaning to scale the alu arms compared to the VW/944 steel ones. I'll try and do that and get back with some hard numbers.

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The VW steel arms are a lot lighter than the Porsche steel arms though.
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The VW steel arms are a lot lighter than the Porsche steel arms though.
Add in 30-40 yrs of rust and they are even lighter still! i would not have trusted our 1303 trailing arms not to collapse when pushed hard.

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