Does anyone on the board fabricate front trailing arms they are big $$ out west. I have a set of 2 1/2 by 1 that I built.

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If you have a light car and do not drive your buggy hard then the Tweeds are ok. If you have a heavy car and drive it hard then I highly recommend you buy Foddrill or Woods. I have had both Tweeds and Woods arms and there is no comparision. I have also had Tweeds and Foddrill Combo Spindles and there is no comparison. This is definatly a place where you get what you pay for! Buy the best and cry once, buy the cheap and cry forever,

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Water cooled Dry Sumped Subaru Powered Turbo Charged Fuel Injected 2500CC Tank. Oh Rah! He who dies with the most Toys not only wins, He also wears them out!

X2!!! glad im not the only one crying!

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Maybe you should chug on over to mamby pamby land....

I will most likely go with the woods arms or fabricate my own. The spindles I plan to run are Fodril. Many can't believe that I have been running stock front spindles with beef up kit for almost 20 years. The secret is to weld a cold rolled dowel through the hollow spindles.

I have a Sacco HD rack and I want to go Power steering. I was hoping to go ram assist or go with the Howe beam mount. What are your thoughts?

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yeah i been wanting to do that myself, i once run across the specs of each step/size for turning down a solid rod to drive in the hollow spindle or maybe it was somewhere to buy them already done, its been a few year ago and i have looked recently but cant seem to find it anymore

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Chris

okay i found this on the samba but it wasnt the one i remember from a while back but it will give the general idea

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewto ... ht=spindle

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Chris

Chris, that is very similar to my modification. I used a detail from a book published in the mid 1970's Building buggies and Baha's. It is amazing how relevant much of the old school stuff works. When you have less than a beer budget you find was to make parts last.

Are you going to the hill climb at Wind Rock next weekend? I think I have seen your car in some of the videos

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i would like to make it but at this point i dont see it happening

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Well thats to bad I guess there is always next year.

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