Installing JVABS on VW MK2

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Robert Culbertson
Chill Winston...

The subi too mounts drop the upper shock mount about an inch right? Won't that decrease the amount of bump travel that the strut will have? There's not a lot of room on the top of a VW insert to drop the top that much and not reduce available bump travel. The solution to this is to raise the vehicle the same amount so overall bump travel is the same as if it had a mount in the stock location.

Or am I completely missing something here?
Cheers.

Yes.

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Ozgur, Sounds good. As always, Thank you for the help and offer.


Josh, What is the sort of ride height you look for on gravel? Honestly the car doesn't appear that tall to me. Not that I've measured it yet.

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Robert Culbertson
Chill Winston...

The subi too mounts drop the upper shock mount about an inch right? Won't that decrease the amount of bump travel that the strut will have? There's not a lot of room on the top of a VW insert to drop the top that much and not reduce available bump travel. The solution to this is to raise the vehicle the same amount so overall bump travel is the same as if it had a mount in the stock location.

Or am I completely missing something here?
Cheers.

Yes.

Since John is being obtuse.

Robert,
The insert can be moved up or down relative to the upright (i.e. inside the tube) so long as the bottom doesn't interfere with the axle

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Josh, What is the sort of ride height you look for on gravel? Honestly the car doesn't appear that tall to me. Not that I've measured it yet.

I suppose that depends on how rough the event is.

We usually run with the suspension close to stock height -- probably not more than 1.25" higher than stock except for at Sandblast.

Note that too high in the rear, and it will be a handful in high-speed corners.

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Josh Wimpey

Since John is being obtuse.

Robert,
The insert can be moved up or down relative to the upright (i.e. inside the tube) so long as the bottom doesn't interfere with the axle

Derpitty-do-dah, totally got it now. I was stuck thinking about a stock strut with the mounting ears not moving. The ears were just raised on the outer tubes to make up for the difference with the top mount being lower.

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Robert Culbertson
Chill Winston...

The subi too mounts drop the upper shock mount about an inch right? Won't that decrease the amount of bump travel that the strut will have? There's not a lot of room on the top of a VW insert to drop the top that much and not reduce available bump travel. The solution to this is to raise the vehicle the same amount so overall bump travel is the same as if it had a mount in the stock location.

Or am I completely missing something here?
Cheers.

Yes.

Since John is being obtuse.

Robert,
The insert can be moved up or down relative to the upright (i.e. inside the tube) so long as the bottom doesn't interfere with the axle

Yeah I'm tired of second guessing from folks that haven't really looked at the basic parts and see how they are...The stock stuff everybody has like Bob and so many others I've re-done ---and it must be at least 20 Golves/Jettas bu now I've re-done----have about 160mm travel, a real long bottom tube and enormous overlap topped off with space wasting top pin so the overall stock package is yay long for piddly travel..

I ditch the stock lower tube, we remove internal spacers so the travel goes to about 190mm, then remachine the top pin and use my own (copy of Group N Ford) upper spring seat saving a whole bunch of length.... so the insert is +30, the top is redone be around -20 min so overall length comes out barely longer..

It works fine as plenty of guys know and use to pretty good effect..
But what advantage to I get from explaining everything to Culbertson?
None.

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So, got to hammer out the studs and install bolts on Monday. Fits nice, both plates are in place. Good enough for now

Anyone want to come navigate @ WMWR? The one I had lined up had to drop out.

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I'd love to come out and navigate, sadly other commitments get in the way! Good luck finding someone to codrive

I love teams that come from this kind of setting. It is great for the sport.
Keep it up!

This is exactly what we did on my jetta....bill plated the tops to reinforce and jesse cut the volcano tops and drilled the holes for the bolts and bam! done!

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I love teams that come from this kind of setting. It is great for the sport.
Keep it up!

Whatchu mean, 'setting'? Do you mean my (compared to some) automotive
Squalor?

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Bingo!!!

True grassroots stuff!

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Josh Wimpey
Tein makes (or made) a subaru top mount that had a 'dome' to bring the bearing up almost 1". Not sure if they were for lowering cars and retaining bump or for getting more bump out of gravel cars...

Got a better photo for this....

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I think I'm going to raise my towers up an 1" and fab my own sheet metal parts. How thick of a plate should I use for the top?

FYI: I use a jumbo zip tie between the bolts on the shock body to hold the brake line in place since the OEM bracket is no longer there.

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I think I'm going to raise my towers up an 1" and fab my own sheet metal parts. How thick of a plate should I use for the top?

FYI: I use a jumbo zip tie between the bolts on the shock body to hold the brake line in place since the OEM bracket is no longer there.

.088-.093 should be fine.

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

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www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.