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Eurowise Project 500hp turbo awd 1984 rabbit GTI
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A few of you know me and for those that don't a a brief history of me and my car. I bought my 84 gti back in the late 90's and within a year the car was fitted with the typical mods of the time. Built high compression 2L 16valve, built 4k with LSD, suspension upgrades, some exterior and...
thanks for the props guys. We will keep the thread updated!
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On to the rear end. Measuring from hub to hub the r32 is 2.5 inches wider than the rabbit suspension. The plan of attack will be to shorten the control arms, the axles, and narrow the r32 floor pan so everything will bolt up and fit just like an oem r32 suspension. even the rear spring seats will fit in the OEM pockets.
shot of the rear upper control arm before modification

shot after shortening to show how much will be removed from each side

the inner control arm was cut offset so the caster was back to spec

top angle showing the control arm installed with the offset modified. notice the axle sits straight now

shot of the adjustable lower control arm

machined and sectioned 2.5 shorter and will be tig welded back together.


For mockup we modified the factory axles until proper length was achieved. After we're happy we'll have custom axles built to withstand the horsepower goals the customer wants.
passenger side axle shortened.

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