I know IM offered VW torsion bar, 914 and 911 front suspension. Didn’t they offer another more modern VW front suspension? Jetta maybe?
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Not that I'm aware of, Phil. Doesn't mean they couldn't have done it , though. What makes you think they may have?
There was a guy on the sight years ago that had a fourth kind of front suspension used on his IM. It was a more modern suspension. And I think it was VW based. This guy lived in Georgia and had a blue car.
There is the Mendeola as well as a couple other custom A arm front suspensions built for VW's over the years, but I couldn't tell you if Henry at IM ever used any of them. Anybody shed any more light on the subject???
There is also the Red9 but according to a highly-respected replica builder(who I'll not out) it has problems with bump steer.
@ALB posted:There is the Mendeola as well as a couple other custom A arm front suspensions built for VW's over the years, but I couldn't tell you if Henry at IM ever used any of them. Anybody shed any more light on the subject???
He didn't and he wouldn't have.
The absolute best suspension setup on the Vancouver IMs was the 911 longitudinally oriented torsion bars. They opened up enormous amounts of real-state in the front of the car, and provided a modern-feeling front end. It required that everything in front of the bulkhead be completely different that a beam -- so the frame for a beam car cannot be adapted to a 911 suspension (the frame is glassed into the car).
The A-arm setups for beams are all compromised to one degree or another. The main problem is that the arms themselves are often pretty close to equal length, so there are issues with that.
If your car has a beam, there are things you can do to make it better. Start there.
"The absolute best suspension setup on the Vancouver IMs was the 911 longitudinally oriented torsion bars. They opened up enormous amounts of real-state in the front of the car, and provided a modern-feeling front end."
Yes.