ball joint beam

how narrow can you get one without notching the towers

well can i build a 5 inch and keep the towers?

i have a 5 inch now w/o towers but it moves way too much....way more then a lp.

anyone have experience with this?

I went 40mm each side 80mm total and mine are upagin the body. 80mm =3.2" so almost 3-1/4"
5" is a no go.

so i can maybe do a 4 with notched towers?

Hell cut the body out, You know that by doing this you loose turning radius? Mine is the limit, I have my stock turning radius and full wheel travel. If you are tucking some wide ass tires under there then go a head but otherwise I'd only do whats needed.

ive been driveing mine daily for a while it not that bad and my tires dont rub

or i was thinkin about getting one like this but narrowed more

my car was this low but i had to bring the front up some cause it scraped due to no shocks
i want it this low again

I'm sure it's possible, but at 5 inches, I doubt you have enough beam sticking out past the wheel well to to even mount a shock tower. If there is any room at all, you could get some plates like these and mount them at the very end of your beam.
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=834755
You'd have to run linkpin style shocks with these.

I've also seen some gusseted ones that go over then up, but couldn't find an ad with them.

my car has a 4 in it had to notch the shock towers
i have a 5 in beam with no towers that i took out

i have seen ppl build a shock mount to the inside of the finder but you would have to reinforce everything

eric thanks yea ive seen the other ones too..

sploval do u have any pictures of your 4 inch beam
well the towers so i can see how u did it

yea i wanna take my 5 inch one out

shocks are over rated when you drop and narrow one or atleats on the front

my car road like total crap

witt no shocks sploval?

cause i have way too much travel with no shocks

yeah without shocks it did it bounced to much

yea it rides better narrowed 4 with shocks?

Mine rides ok for a lowered car. But it still will bottom out, Ball Joint, your gona have it.

im fine with bottoming out and scraping some but it just hits too too hard

alot better

when i did my shock towers the inside of the towers i cut out about 5 in where it is round on the tower and boxed it in flat

5 in tall?
or wide?

tall
i cut the round part out and boxed it in with flat

so basicly just flatten those areas
ok

ans what shocks are u using?

i set of lowered shocks from empi