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Old 10-20-2020, 01:34 AM   #8 (permalink)
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The solution I hit on with the Superbeetle was to leave the engine stock and resize the front tires. The [left front-driven] speedometer is ~12% optimistic.

A mechanic that road tested it was really impressed until I told him.
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