newbie_here...Suspension Upgrade Q's?

[Hella-Buggin']

I skimmed through the article and noticed that it's dealing with a ball joint front end. I have a 3" narrowed King & Link Front end on my car. I'll take the suggestions from the aircooled site for my rear end but what about the front end?

[rip]

yea, the narrowed front beam may be difficult to locate a "high" performance sway bar but I beleive there was an article in a vw mag about a narrow sway bar, i'll see if I can find it.

I think it was a 3/4 which should be good enough.

But there is one important thing about that article the author welded all the seams on his bug so this made the chassis and the car a lot stiffer. this is why he had understeer. You and me and most others havn't or can't do this, unless your willing to pull the body and do the time.

So becarefully of what you do based off that article. I wouldn't go that large in the rear, as far as sways bars goes.

There is a tech article on the home page. It trys to use measurement similar to a porsche with similar wieghts, i'd model after that more than the aircooled.net, but the aircooled.net thing does illustrate that you need to tune, not a one size fits all.

[rip]

it was the jan 2004 issuse of hot vw page 76.

they make a 2 and 3" narrowed sway bar in 3/4 this will make a good improvement.

http://www.airspeedparts.com/catalog...09c4e8786811b7

they want 140 bucks for it.

but what sort of shocks are you using a good set of koni will help, but these suggestions along with the articles i've been talking about imply a race attitude. good for cruising don't get me wrong but may be over kill.