Stance: A Little Low in the Rear Options

[Bwingate]

First post here. New to 914's, but I have had a '74 Super Beetle for quite some time, so its the same but different . . . .

Got my new-to-me 1974 on Friday. One of the issues I knew about was that the car sits a little [too] low in the rear. I don't have plates yet, so I could only drive up and down my street a couple of times, but I don't hear any or feel anything funny from the rear and the ride is pretty nice.

Any ideas on where to start to level this or problems I should be looking at regarding the rear end sag?




Thanks,
Bruce

[technicalninja]

Be careful about purchasing rear springs.

These had stupid soft rates and it's easy to put too much spring on them.

The normal replacements are the 100lb ones like this.

https://914rubber.com/100-lb-sport-rear-spr...google_shopping

Any higher spring rates than that and you can adversely affect handling unless you have a bunch of other suspension mods.

[JamesM]

Be careful about purchasing rear springs.

These had stupid soft rates and it's easy to put too much spring on them.

The normal replacements are the 100lb ones like this.

https://914rubber.com/100-lb-sport-rear-spr...google_shopping

Any higher spring rates than that and you can adversely affect handling unless you have a bunch of other suspension mods.

Even the 100lb springs are nearing double the stock spring rate. Maybe fine if you have a front and no rear sway bar, otherwise that jump in rear rate causes your rear end to come out under aggressive driving.


I wouldn't touch the springs unless they are broken, Install some quality shocks/struts, just drop the front to match and call it a day.