Adjust-a-struts.  The bottom plate on the strut tower is adjustable.  ASBug just lowered his Jap Beetle . . . I'm sure he can tell you more.

Have looked at the topline kits and they cost a way bunch more money than i wanted to spend. Also after talking to ASBug he has a grand or so in his with all new urathane and disk brakes etc. Mine has all new urathane and i do not need disk brakes. Will probably go with the adjust - a - shocks like Zen said. Have found them at midamerica etc but does places like autozone or pepboys carry them for beetles around here ? I checked their websights and found nothing. So can i just put on 4 adjust- a - shocks and lower it with out replacing all this other stuff.

thanks for the info Zen. Do i need any specialized tools for this ? I have done shocks on american cars in the past but never on a beetle. I may just have to buy ya lunch etc Zen and have ya come over and help when the time comes. ..... 

You will need to buy Zen more than lunch to put all that on.
I have over $700 in parts in the front of Jap and I had a friend spend 2 days on the front end with the urethane, new disk brakes, oversized / lowered sway bar, the selecta strut housings,strut cartriges (lowered), new springs, change oil (I supplied), re dope the trans axle, adjust the valves.  His labor cost was $350.
He had to drill out a broken frame head bolt on the OEM swaybar holder, and other nice touches...  I think it was money well spent.

I have to date about $1300 in just the front end of the Jap beetle (New tires included...)  This doesn't include the T-backs that I already had (they were $$$)
But they fit!  It seems that alot of the SB's are running either stock or chrome mangles on their beetles.  When you come over you will be shocked how little clearance there is with any thing other than a stock wheel.

Good luck,
This is not a cheep mod on a super.  You have to pay to play, the car handles REALY well now though.
KC

You will have to reindex the rear spring plates. The adjustable shocks won't support the vehicle. Therefore, adjusting them down won't lower it. Its not hard to reindex them. There are even youtube videos of how to do it.

This one is a type 3, but the rear is nearly the same this is 1 of 4.


I've heard a lot of folks say they lowered a bug by weighing the front down, but you won't improve the handling by doing that!

My wife's 75 Convertible was dragging in the rear when we first got it.  I added adjustable shocks (the kind with the coil spring wrapped around them and a 3 step adjustment.  While stock springs do not support any of the weight of the car and like Nick said, don't affect how high or low it sits, the springs on these type of adjustables DO slightly raise or lower the car.  They are usually added when the rear is dragging and someone like me doesn't know how to index the torsion rods are in my case are just too lazy.  If you want to lower the rear, the first thing I'd do is remove the adjustables and see where it REALLY sits.  Just going to a stock shock may lower it enough.  I know they raised my wife's convertible a good two inches.  I later went to stock shocks and re-indexed the torsion bars to get back to a stock stance.

Those adjustable shocks on the rear are set at their highest setting.  I'll bet that if you take them off, the rear end will drop.  A stock rear shock does not have a spring and has no affect on the car's ride height.

On the front, you need a set of adjustable struts.  What they do is alow you to adjust the position on the strut tower that the bottom spring plate sits, which in turn adjust how high the car's body sits above the asphalt.  The stock struts have the plate welded in a set position.