My wife and I want to restore a 1963 beetle I've had for years and so in doing this retoration, we are going for function over form for a lot of things. I've got a collection of old chrome bumpers to choose from and we're not gonna get all fancy about year-correct items and so forth.
I want to try building a beetle that is low maintenance. I'm leaning toward a stock 1600DP with fuel injection. I'm reading a lot about it and slowly learning about what I need to do. I'm investigating hydraulic lifters, rhino liner on the pan, full flow oiling, and host of other options to give a 40+ year old car some modern anemnities. The whole idea is that we plan to slowly, over time, convert to nothing but air-cooled VWs for our daily transportation needs. I'm wanting to do an IRS rear end, disc brakes all the way around with ebrake cable, and still use the wide 5 rims. I'm going to use a ball joint axle beam on the front. Is there any way to convert the beetle to IRS suspension but still use the wide 5 bolt pattern with disc brakes? The reason I want disc brakes is they are also - low maintenance. If I plan on having a fleet of VWs to drive, I don't want to be under them all the time doing all the maintenance. I want to lessen how much time I work on them but ponying up the extra bucks now for the upgrades. I guess the basic question is can you put wide 5 disc brakes on an IRS pan? NQ _______________________________________________ vintagvw site list [email protected] http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw
