<div dir="ltr">To my knowledge there are only a few true type 3 front ends that have been narrowed and they were a lot of work to shorten the cross members and the torsion bars. One I know modified the trailing arms to narrow the front end rather than playing with the cross member and torsion rods. You really have to know what you are doing to do either. Most of the narrowed ones are switched to Type ! front ends and the mounting to the chassis modified. Buying Type I narrowed and lowered are available from a number of sources. Makes the front end stiffer than keeping the Type 3. Lowering the Type 3 is fairly easy by playing with the splines on the arms. Moving the arms up a spline or 2 lowers the front but not too much. I recommend you talk to ISP West before you attempt this.<div><br></div><div>There are rear disk brake kits that you can buy that are set up for emergency brakes but I believe keeping the rear drums is better and a lot cheaper. Most of the braking is done by the fronts so you don't get that much better braking going to rear disks. Some people have gone to different front disks that are better than VWs but again, not cheap. Again, call ISP West about going to rear disks.</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 2, 2024 at 10:52 AM Ena <<a href="mailto:chief475@aol.com">chief475@aol.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi<br>
My name is Michael<br>
I have a 1971 squareback that I'm restoring.A couple of things the collective wisdom might help me with...<br>
I want to drop and narrow the front end and was hoping to find a bolt on front beam somewhere?Everything I've found was not compatible... Any ideas?<br>
I also want to add rear disc brakes but want to still have use of the emergency brake. I saw some kits online but nothing that includes the e-brake.<br>
Any thoughts would be most appreciated<br>
Thanks<br>
Michael<br>
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