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Jim, I have to agree with Keith on this one: Caster is lost anytime a car is lowered. Look at the angle that a line drawn between the two ball joints make at a given ride height. When the lower arm is "turned" on the torsion beam to lower it it affects the angle that the lower ball joint is at. The line is now closer to 90 degrees than it was before the torsion arm was "turned". The principle is exaclty the same as in Beetle front end lowering. Gene Berg, and possibly others, sell "Caster wedges" which are designed to fit between the Beam and the front bulk head. What they do is "move" the lower edge of the beam outward toward the front to bring back the angle that was lost when the car lowered. Mostly drag cras use them because they offer high speed stability. GET IT!! These kits also came with longer bolts and on severly lowered cars, one could stack two if the wedges. This also required slightly longer bolts. Given that, I was poking around underneath my Fastback, Inge, to see if caster wedges would work on Type 3 front beams. With longer bolts, I think one could fashion something that could work. Has anyone ever thought about this?? ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org