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As already said, it's worth doing, as you car with irs will be transformed.  The ride will be nicer as well as handling improved, and the only extra maintenance is repacking cv's every 30,000 miles (or is it kms? I forget).  Going to the extra trouble to narrow the trailing arms to fit wider tires is also worthwhile; as well as the rear of the car sticking better to the road, it will also look just that much more bad@ss! 

If you can weld it'll be a great winter project.  The June '94 Hot VW's magazine has a "how to narrow the trailing arms" article by my friend Bruce.  He put 8" Fuchs alloys with 225/50-15's under stock fenders on his Beetle.  If you're interested, I've scanned the pages and can post them here (I posted them a number of years ago).

Hope this helps.  Al

PS- @LI-Rick- nicely done! (and that is 1 sharp Ghia!)  A friend of mine built a similar jig and has converted a number of dune buggies to irs.   The Bus reduction boxes were breaking (the new modern offroad tires are just too much for them) and Gerry has converted 4? 5? 6? buggies to bus irs transaxles and reliability has gone way up.

Another PS- @Former Member- What tires and rims are on it now? can you post a pic of your car?

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