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@dlearl476 posted:

I found this online. Looks pretty simple. So simple, in fact, that I'm going to buy the spring plate caps to heim joint bits and some cro-moly tubing and take them to a pro welder I know and see what we can come up with.

Thanks for posting your shock info, I was going to pm you for it. Next time you have your clamshell up, can you take a few pictures for me?  

Dave, I have an extra set of Vintage trailing arms, would you be interested? Removes at least some of the fabrication work. Then you'd just need to re-engineer the Beck chassis to carry weight from the upper shock mounts. The lower end of the shocks are slightly repositioned from stock VW and Beck.

The heim joints make it easy to adjust rear toe-in.

The shocks are QA1 Proma-Star DS-402, and a DS-401. One comes with busings both ends, the other has heim joints. You simply swap them so the bushings are on top and the heims are on the trailing arm end. I run them with the adjustable spring perch up, makes scaling easy.

The DS shocks have one knob which adjusts compression and rebound at the same time. They sell a DD version with two separate knobs for about $50-60 more per shock. I've found the single knob to be perfect, the shocks are set right around the middle of their range.

I'll post some pictures later today.

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