1. say your name

Hey my name is Sven but everyone calls me spekkie

2. where your from

I come from Weelde a village in Belgium

3. how'd you find us?

saw a video about u guys on another forum and liked your style

4. what you drive

i drive a 82 ford granada as a daily
an have a 73 beetle thats my fun car

5. post a pic of your car


my fun car the hillbilly hellride

6. a little bio if you like
not much to say but that i love static drop !!

Welcome spekkie. Glad to see we have followers all the way over in belgium

Welcome!

yay more air cooleds!!! good stuff man and welcome!

welcome! the VWs are growing here

Yay mas aircoolers

I like slammed aircooleds. Welcome

early fenders and bumpers?

How did you fit those eye lids in there looks good.

cool vw, welcome

@ louis this is the europian economy model called a "spaarkever "
it has the upright lights but the oldstyle blade bumpers ( fenders arent correct should have horngrilles ) and are 6 volt original .
@ dubhavoc eyelids are just slip in but these are real oldschool ones are much smaller then the new repro ones
i have a real oldschool roofrack too not a shinny new empi repro

good stuff man, so what are the details? 4" beam, spindles, adjusters, and 2 rear clicks?

5 inch beam with cb performance dropped spindles ( twice as expensive as others but much better quality ) adjusters an no shocktowers .
rear has 2 klicks
front tyres are 175/55/15"
rear tyres are 195/65/15"
rear wheels are widened to 5.5" ( original are 4.5" )
changes are coming as in new beam ( 4" with shocktowers )
wider wheels for the rear ( 6.5 " and use the 5.5" ones at the front )
other tyres 165/55 front and 185/65 or 195/55 on the rear
wheels will be john deere green too
also i'm making another engine with a friend who is a mechanic .
car will be used for a very big roadtrip in 2013 summer so i'm working toward a very low but drivable car .
Trip will be 2600 to 3000 miles on very bad roads

nice! I'll be pickin up a '56 oval soon and am debating on the set up. prolly gonna go 6" beam, no towers, and 3 clicks. Car looks good man, keep us posted!

nice hope to see some pics of that oval .
its drives more comfortable low because its a different frontaxle than bug from after 65

Good stuff dude, I had a '73 standard too.

king pin>ball joint

Thanks Spekkie.
On my bug im probably going 2in narrowed beam for now.Ima go 4in later on, Puma adjusters, lower the rear end 1 click or 2 clicks. We'll see.
What motor you going with.

I wonder how that John Deere green would look like.

bitchen

Sorry for the late reply
But please just go for a 4 inch at once and buy yourself a set of good quality dropped spindles ; for the rear go 2 clicks and notch the springplates
if you put a 2 inch beam you will want to go lower in a matter of weeks and will need too modify beam again or search an other one .
drove my beetle daily for 4 months at this rideheight and it goes very well ! ( and you should see the roads and speedbumps over here )

I'm going to build a simple 1600 only riechert carb kit other rockers ( i think thats the english name ? ) and a home modified exhaust .
All parts will be balanced and weighted not aiming for high performace but reliability .

good plan/advice!

picked up a new front beam this monday .
i'm spraying it black now
also took the woods slats out of the roofrack and made them to fit good

nice! Hurry up and install that beam, I want pics! I'm picking up a '56 oval rag-top on sunday so I need inspiration lol

lol i'm a litlle bit lazyer then you think louis

lol its ok

Soo the lazy boy from belguim did some work on the beetle again !

the new beam !

on the car


on the car with all new suspension and brake stuff on it


new height and a litlle less tuck . MUCh better imo !
and in between the hard work drinking beer and smokin .... i made a new gearlever

hell ya man! Lookin good! I did end up picking up that 56 oval rag. Check out the build thread "2 slammed air-cooleds" some fun tricks in there. Shortened pan head, pie cut, 10" narrowed beam.... Post up a pic outside the garage?

Still need to do the rear brakes louis
outside pics will follow soon....ish
I will check your topic nothing better then heavely modified vw's

fo sho!

I like this

Bought myself a early christmass present today

4 lug sprintstars 5.5 wide set of 4

fitted one little bit too chunky tire for me

tight gap !

The wheels stick out 1.5 inches more than the front wheels of the car !
This will be too much to drive it nice and low .
Going to get the front ones narrowed 1 inch and put on the tires that are already on the car .
I think it will be exactly how i wanted it to look .

The new wheels stick out 0.8 more then the rear wheels allready on the car.
I think this will work perfect !
If this doesnt work i will roll the wheelarches with some steel pipe
Also going to us the same tires that are on the car .
all wheels will be sandblasted and a funky color applied

I like sprints.

Coolest affordable 4lug beetle wheel for me !
Wasnt going to pay big bucks just to cut up the fronts
Will be powdercoated a nice and funky green color think it will look superb with a black car .

Exactly what i was thinking.

Good to see another European member on here

where in europe are u from g535 ?
I come from belguim

edit :
Fitted the rear wheels yesterday .
They will never fit with this tires not even if i use the steel pipe to roll the arches !
I will order some 175/65 15 tires for the rear this will just work an gives me another half inch of lowness

I'm after a set of 4.5 sprints now . Hope that Leslie still has them so i can pic em up later this week
So i will have two staggered sets . Sell one set and not spend money on narrowing a pair .
Looked up some pictures of slammed bugs on a staggered set of sprints really cool !!

Nice. I picked these up for my '56. 6" wide rears, and then the faces were cut out of another set of 6" wides and welded into a stock bus wheel (4.5" wide) for the front. And off road center caps for fun lol. Hope they fit! But I am not afraid to cut the hell out of the body at this point lol. 145/65/15 front and probably gonna do 185/60/15 rear.

Germany, son. Cologne area, so Belgium isnt far away at all I used to go to Maasmechelen for shopping with the GF quite a lot!

Nice wheels louis
use 165/45 tires up front they are lower then the 145/65's

update on the second set of wheels ! Leslie mailed me back today i told him to hold the wheels for me

Ya, my debate was between those two. I went with the skinnier because of the 10" narrowed beam but I'm having second thoughts now. I'm keeping my eye out for the 165/45's but I already have the 145/65's......

its only 20 mm wider but also 20 mm less sidewall Louis
165 fits on 4.5 perfectly mine are even 175/55 .

picked up the second set of sprints this morning .
Decided how i'm painting them also .
the pieces that are silver original on the wheels will be shiny black .
the pieces that are black original will be john deere green .
Will work nice and is a little bit different

hope to find the parts i still need on the beetle winter fest tomorrow so i can rebuild the rear in the evening and get the car on its wheels again !

Still not got the parts to rebuild the rear suspension must drive to bbt not found anything decent on the winterfest .
Today picked up some coorect taillights

Will look twice as nice !