Raising rear frame forks

[big d chop]

I'm thinking of raising the rear frame forks and torsion bars on a knew floor pan that I have laying about, has any one got any pictures of this being done . Im just not shore where the but the strengthfners bars to make shore it don't move.

[Neil Davies]

Darren, do you go on the Ultimate Air Cooled forum? There have been a few on there. I'll try to find some.

[Neil Davies]

Here you go, here's the best one
http://ultimateaircooled.com/simplemachinesforum/index.php/topic,13182.0.html
and this one has measurements for the plates you'll need
http://ultimateaircooled.com/simplemachinesforum/index.php/topic,7085.0.html

Hope these help!
Neil

[big d chop]

Cheers Neil ,this is exactly what I'm looking for.

[rene]

Some people here, how you did it ??

[fish]

I helped a mate cut, flip, brace and weld the frame horns without touching the torsion bars getting 3" tranny/engine rise, wish I had some pics of the modification.

[spanners]

The torsion tube only becomes trouble on very low cars, my circuit car bottoms the spring plate bolt heads on the back of the shock tower and the torsion bar retainer plates ground out, and it's still not low enough, I need to come down another inch, so there is the reason Porsche  had to set the t/tube higher in the car on the 911s  and the 944 series just to get them low enough.

[Fiatdude]

Doug at deluxe Iron (DxFe) is on the samba --- and sells all the right parts/plates to do the raise -- and the parts are top shelf!!!!

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1441170

[spanners]

The other advantage of raising the torsion tube, and I'd forgotten to mention it, is it gives a better spring plate angle for traction, don't matter for my adgenda so much, but it will for drag cars,  ideally you want the spring plate running downhill from the pivot pint, ie, the t/bar bushes, look at any Porsche, even low ones to see this feature, mine run uphill from the pivot, not so good for the launch, but I have time to recover from that with better cornering manners from the low ride height.