Paul,
To add a little diversity to the discussion – I took the small leaves out of my
front beam and then added coil overs to both the front and the rear.
My car rides great – then again I am a bit of a widebody ( working on that )
so others my differ. It tracks great and rides smooth and does not bounce
around.
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Here’s that thread.

Mark,
Are you trying to get a Ford too.  I thought you just bought that one with the “rocket 283”. 
Montie

The more I look at it, the more I like it.
First I’ve heard about a calendar, but I agree that the first photo would look good on one.

I’ll let you know what the outcome is as soon as I know something. Just thought I’d see if anyone had run into the same problem.

There is some kind of harmonic, 40 mph, on Bridget. Very minor steering wheel wobble and was the same before and after new tie rods, beam, springs, tires, balance, shox, etc. Sounds like yours is way worse and hope they run it down easy.Real knock-off wires? Man that’s phat.

Are the rims true?
I suspect if the rims need spokes tightened/loosened/adjusted, you would feel a shimmy at any speed. But there could be something about the frequencies at 45 that are upsetting the car.PMOSSBERG40798.5936226852

Just my humble opinion…and I’m gonna sound redundant here…but the risk of being annoying never stopped me before.
The VW suspension works. And has for 60 years.
Stock oil-filled shocks.
Gas shocks, coil-overs and air shocks, all you’ll get is a harder ride.
If anything, our cars need to have the front suspension softened, by removing some or…[Read more]

 IMHO it sounds like a balance problem. The exact  placement of the weights can have considerable effect . Some times the weights are all placed on the inside of the wheel for appearance when they should be devided inside and outside to achieve proper balance side to side as well as simply compensating  for a light or heavy area of the tire.

How about air shocks? It could stiffen suspension some depending on how much air you have to put in them but it could be just enough to get the job done and not suffer any ride comfort or safety. Cheaper than an adjustable beam and a lot less work. Just a thought.
Just curious why you went with a taller tire?

Upper! right! Will correct in re-post.

I have it all real close,Just would like to have it set on an alignment rack.Also mine has the ecentric on the upper ball joint.

Ed nailed it. If you need to adjsut ride height, you need an adjustable beam.Shocks control control jounce and rebound. They do not control ride height.Do not put coil-overs on a VW suspension. Those German engineers had it right the way they designed it.

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My guess is the Duchess hoods would be the same for a VW and Front engine.

You’ll need to enlarge the hole. The MG hubcap medallion has about a half inch diamater post.

 You will be the rocket man ,good luck ,and hold on, my father had 283 in a 59 Chevy and he had it for 12 years there only car at that time , he sold the car it had over 100 K a lot of miles in 1970 the guy who bought it drove it to work also ,,,the car rotted away before the engine,, and was running when junked GREAT engines    Dan

I took mine to an alignment shop. You shouldn’t need to though if you have two flat pieces of something–yard sticks, say–’cause setting the toe-in is possible just with those, and that’s most of what you need.Get the sticks and a pencil, drive the car straight and slow to where you’re going to work, then crawl under and position the end of each…[Read more]

Are you running an adjustable beam yet? If not, it’s probably time to either buy a new beam with the adjusters in it already and pull most of the small leaves out when you reassemble, or buy the weld-in adjusters and have a competent shop install them for you, and do the same en re the springs.The adjustable beam gives you control of ride height.…[Read more]

That is a good point, Marc. I don’t know why it acted the way it did, but it bespeaks problems in the way she was wired. I’ll get a small in-line fuse for that lede, say 8-10 amps, for the next time that happens.And very right on the fire. It’s always a lucky thing these cars don’t burn up.

Yes I have a FF vw based.My engine cover to wich is supposed to reasemble the gas tank,(on the real 1’s)has a large hole in the center,To wich a fiberglass hat is supposed to fit in,to wich the spare bolts to.Well these items were missing when I bought the car.Look in my album and you will see my first design.
I have since,now taken just the…[Read more]