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Excellent work!

John Connolly once told me that there is no "perfect" in the VW world-- everything is a compromise between absolute performance and fitting within the confines of an existing envelope. The balance is everywhere-- comfort v performance, cost v improvement, etc. I've heard various people (over on TheSamba) express concerns about some aspects of Kevin's design, but people who frequent The Samba would gripe about stubbing their toe on a gold brick.

From this distance it looks like a major improvement over the stock set-up. The back runs narrower than stock trailing arms, etc. and would solve a lot of the fitment issues guys have running IRS and disc brakes in a narrow body car. Unequal length A-arm is a huge upgrade over the front end of a car with a VW beam.

I want to drive one of these cars with the conversion. @Rich Drewek is getting this done on his Ghia hardtop, which I suppose is as close as I'm going to get to having a chance. I'll drive up to Milwaukee to sample the fruit if I'm given the opportunity.

Keep us in the loop, Scott!

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