Re: Rear swaybar mk1 Scirocco

[Mark Peele <type53@yahoo.com>]

--- Brian Dettling <aa821@acorn.net> wrote:
> Read your post on Scirocco list.  You probably know
> all this, but 16V 
> rear bar works great partly because its 24 mm.  OEM
> was something like 19-20 
> mm.  Roll bar stiffness varies with the 4th power of
> the bar diameter.  
> MOF, long time ago I wrote VW&Porsche magazine about
> their pandering 
> recommendation to 16V Scirocco guys to replace rear
> bar with 25mm 
> Neuspeed.  Never published, of course.
> 
> Another data point:  Drilling through the rear axle
> beam is a JOB.

==yeah, sure is - I did it on my 1980 Scirocco S.

  BTDT 
> with my 78 for GMP OEM work alikes.

==hehe, finally junked my old GMP swaybars last year .
. .

  Need good drill
> bit and I used lotsa 
> oil.  I don't know for sure, but the 16V rear beam
> -may- be different in 
> good way (beefier?) than earlier.

The 16V beam is the same, except pre-drilled for the
sway bar (as are all 1981 & later U.S. Sciroccos) and
possibly a notch for the rear disc mounting.


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Mark Peele
1981 Scirocco S, 1982 Scirocco, 1978 Scirocco, 1987 Golf GT
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