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I'm deep into the restoration of my 74 standard beetle. I'm building it with the goal of eventually participating in SCCA, Autocross, Hillclimbs, etc. My goal is to have the rolling chassis complete in a few months.

The new rear suspension is finally installed! Highlights include:

Sway-Away Adjustable Spring Plates
Whiteline 18mm Rear Anti-Sway bar
Koni "RED SPECIAL" 5 Way Adjustable Shocks
Urethane Torsion Bar Bushings
Urethane IRS Diagonal Arm Bushings
New German Rear Axle Bearings and Seals
New Stainless steel and/or grade 8.8 hardware
Eastwood Rust Encapsulator Chassis Basecoat
Rustoleum Gloss Black Chassis Topcoat

http://bugthebuilder2.blogspot.com/

Your work looks very good. Nice & clean.

Looks too clean to abuse! great job. Are those rear shocks the adjustable ones?

Yeah I'm installing the KONI "RED SPECIAL" 5-setting Adjustable shocks front and rear.

I had to special order the KONI's and they took 3 months!

Thanks for the nice comments....I'm very SLOW but I try to do it right!

Where did you order them from?

I ordered them from DonsSport.com and the shocks had to be special ordered from KONI in Holland. Don's Sport was helpful providing updates. The simple truth is that there aren't very many new sets of KONI RED shocks for Type 1's laying around anymore!

Thanks,
Shane

Whiteline 18mm Rear Anti-Sway bar

I think for Autocrossing you need 23-25 mm.

But where can you get a bigger bar? I can't find anything over 7/8, Europe?

volkswagen50 wrote:But where can you get a bigger bar? I can't find anything over 7/8, Europe?

I think 7/8" is ok (22,2 mm ?)

I take it from a old Peugeot 405 (front) 23 mm

Whiteline dealer - order by discription
http://www.aircooled.net/new-bin/viewpr ... 05&cartid=
NA Whiteline dealer - order by part #
http://www.globalperformanceparts.com/i ... Path=31_42
Whiteline Cat - Go here to find part #
http://www.whiteline.com.au/docs/catalogues/WL_0321.pdf