Beetle 1303 Turbo circuit racer build thread

[4agedub]

Quite a lot has happened this last couple of months... but we are no where close to finish yet. Absolutely everything needs to be fabricated which takes time.

[FJCamper]

Hard. unforgiving aluminum seat. No cover or cushion. Keeps the lads awake.

Hey,

That's not a racing seat you guys have -- that's a bed!

FJC

[4agedub]

Ride quality = crap
Road noise level = crap
AC = crap
At least I can sit comfortably.

[volksbugly]

subscribed! Hey are you planing on gusseting the bottom coilover mount point on the rear trailing arm or do you think they will be strong enough? I'm worried about breaking out the bottom on mine, so I might have some custom longer bolts made and weld a piece from the trailing arm to the other side of the coil mount point.

[4agedub]

The bolts are made from en24 steel I think... so hopefully they will be strong enough. Unfortunately the only way to make them stronger would be to weld on the trailing arms.

[4agedub]

[Piledriver]

subscribed! Hey are you planing on gusseting the bottom coilover mount point on the rear trailing arm or do you think they will be strong enough? I'm worried about breaking out the bottom on mine, so I might have some custom longer bolts made and weld a piece from the trailing arm to the other side of the coil mount point.

I'm looking at putting high grade 5/8" bolts in my alloy arms, you can get the std 1" OD uniballs with a 5/8" ID from Ridetech, at least.
For now I settled on offsetting the lower eye a bit so it could attach close as possible to the arm and the shock clears.
(using converted Ridetech/Fox 2.0 truck shocks, ~.165" wall 55mm OD)

[4agedub]

We have a sway bar

[4agedub]

[4agedub]

Quite a lot has happened lately, the body was prepped and painted inside and outside by my dad. Now assembly can begin...

[FJCamper]

All Right!

Racy red. Now we're getting serious.

FJC

[ALYKAT III]

Hmmm...all I see are little red x ?

[4agedub]

We are reaching the final stages of this built. Holding thumbs to get it done in time for Sunday's test and tune

[H2OSB]

I wouldn't mind a few details about your front suspension, specifically the LCAs. Also, does the location of your track arm effect the location of your brake MC, assuming you're still going to use the factory location.

Car looks awesome, BTW.

H2OSB

[4agedub]

Most of the parts are once of manufactured items.

I had some plates lasercut that make up the main structure of the control arm. These plates are 16mm thick and also has a hole for the clevis joint to locate and fit snug.


We then took a set of CSP 944 ball joints, measured them up and made a sleeve that welds into the plate. On the other side of the plate tubular tubing was used with an insert and 14mm heim joint.


The new arms are about 15mm longer than the old stock control arm


The control arm ties up to the car with a clevis joint. Thus the sway bar is no longer part of the suspension design and can purely be used as a sway bar only