944 turbo spindles, steering geometry

[super vw]

The length issue on tierods for a non-rack and pinion Super beetle can be cured by simply useing the longer rack and pinion tierods, then put your normal tierod ends on. This eliminates any "to short" tierod assemblies that you will come up with (having only 4 or so threads is not safe).

[yetibone]

I used one '77 Transporter tie rod to make the lengths correct on my 1303.

[super vw]

Nice, the late R&P super beetle tie rods are about 2" longer than the earlier setup if I remember right.

[punchbuggyracer]

I had no intention of bending the tie rod. I had heard that the spindle arms needed to be bent to the same angle as the 1303 to improve the ackerman angle, which I'm led to believe makes the steering more responsive.

Thanks 2443TT but I dont know that I can make the car 100mm wider per side.

[Wally]

Originally Posted by punchbuggyracer

I had no intention of bending the tie rod. I had heard that the spindle arms needed to be bent to the same angle as the 1303 to improve the ackerman angle, which I'm led to believe makes the steering more responsive.

That would be weird as the spindle material is cast iron. Bending this is a no-no with regard to safety afaik.

More commonly practice is to reverse mount the steering joint to get a better (ie less) angle. The spindle needs to be machined for this.
Maybe this was meant?

[punchbuggyracer]

You mean like a flip it kit? I have one to fit to it from vdubengineering.