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Re: salamander beach buggy build
Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 9:26 pm
by piesang
Yes that will look good if the back ones are 2" wider, but hi I still like it.
Re: salamander beach buggy build
Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 9:35 pm
by snoeckie
thanks man, yeah its just to find someone down here in durban to do them for me none seems to want to widen wheels here everyone i have spoken to says its too dangerous. i think it would look lakka if there were 9j or so
Re: salamander beach buggy build
Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 9:36 pm
by Pine
Those wheels look awesome

Re: salamander beach buggy build
Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 9:39 pm
by snoeckie
thanks pine,

Re: salamander beach buggy build
Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 9:46 pm
by Pine
These guys widened my rear rims from 4.5 (like the front ones) to 8.5 -
http://www.mag-master.co.za/

Re: salamander beach buggy build
Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 10:19 pm
by snoeckie
shot ill look into it
Re: salamander beach buggy build
Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 10:23 pm
by snoeckie
had a look at their site, looks exactly like what i wanna do looks like i may have co courior them to jhb what did they charge you to widen them if i may ask?
Re: salamander beach buggy build
Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 7:39 pm
by colignym
Hi, I also have a Salamander. Please check for me, on the front right, how much clearance do you have between the body and the shock tower?
Thanks
Re: salamander beach buggy build
Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 9:17 pm
by piesang
colignym wrote:Hi, I also have a Salamander. Please check for me, on the front right, how much clearance do you have between the body and the shock tower?
Thanks
post some pics of your buggy and give as a link to it. Please post at least one good photo at
http://www.aircooledvwsa.co.za/viewtopi ... =1&t=27236
Re: salamander beach buggy build
Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 12:02 am
by retrovan
Hi Pine, do they do steel as well, or do you know someone in PE that can do a set of Rostyles for me..
Herman
Re: salamander beach buggy build
Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 8:37 am
by colignym
piesang wrote:colignym wrote:Hi, I also have a Salamander. Please check for me, on the front right, how much clearance do you have between the body and the shock tower?
Thanks
post some pics of your buggy and give as a link to it. Please post at least one good photo at
http://www.aircooledvwsa.co.za/viewtopi ... =1&t=27236
Hi, will post pic late, at the moment my problem is that the shock tower on the right front touches the body. I was just wondering if this is a Salamander problem, or maybe my body was mounted wrong? Looks like my body should be mounted more forward, maybe 10 mm as the body touches the rear torque bar cover caps......I'm bit new in this.
Re: salamander beach buggy build
Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 6:33 pm
by piesang
colignym wrote:
Hi, will post pic late, at the moment my problem is that the shock tower on the right front touches the body. I was just wondering if this is a Salamander problem, or maybe my body was mounted wrong? Looks like my body should be mounted more forward, maybe 10 mm as the body touches the rear torque bar cover caps......I'm bit new in this.
Not a expert on this as well, can only tell you that by buggy's body do not touches any parts other than where it sits on the pan, as far as I know. Do you have the long wheel or short wheel salamander
Re: salamander beach buggy build
Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 8:27 pm
by colignym
Hi,
I have a LWB. I really find it mind a puzzle. After lifting the body 15 mm from the chassis on the front right hand side, It just clears the shock tower. I wonder if I have a twist in my chassis? Cannot see anything wrong though. I am going to try and re mount the whole thing better. Some people mess up a VW, and then others mess up a buggy even more than a beetle........
Re: salamander beach buggy build
Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 9:32 pm
by snoeckie
Mine touches on the left strut I might have to grind it down abit but I haven't tightened the body down properly yet so that might be why I'll hopefully do that this weekend, in the mean time I stripped the front suspension to check for any broken bits to give me a clue why she's sitting funny on one side so far all is fine nothing broken or missing will try finishing putting it all beck together tomorrow (it's a bitch putting all those blades back in)
Re: salamander beach buggy build
Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 9:38 pm
by snoeckie
Excuse some of the spelling this dam auto correct comes up with weird Kak on my ipad