rear beam

[juleshs]

 can any one tell me is it possible to put a mk3 rear beam straight onto a mk2 or is there some welding fabrication need the bushes on my mk2 need doing and i have a mk3 beam with good bushes, i also have all the parts to make the front end wide track too

[Ben Lessani]

I'm not really 100% sure on this, but from reading about it a while back, the MK3 rear beam is the same, its the rear hubs/stubs that give it a wider track.

You can simply fit wheel spacers to the hub or spacers behind the stub axle. But if your MK3 is 5 stud, then you'll be mismatched.

Again IIRC, the MK3 stub axles fit the MK2, allowing you to use MK3 rear disks.

Apparently a Passat one does IIRC. RJ will definitely correct me on this.

This also might help http://www.clubgti.com/forum/showthread.php?t=138484

[rubjonny]

its the beam itself that is wider, but the mounting points are the same, as are the stub axles. however not all mk3 beams are the same width, its a bit confusing!  there is a large thread on clubgti with various beam width comparisons.  I might be wrong on this but I think the passat beam is wider at the mounting poits, so it wont fit a MK2. Perhaps

you can convert the rear beams between 4 and 5 stud simply by swapping the rear discs, so either way its no bother.  Personally I'd stick with wheel spacers or stub axle spacers, rather than all the effort of doing a beam swap. unless the car has no rear arb or rear discs, then it would be more worthwhile to go to all the effort

edit: doh ben posted the link to the beam faq, teach me not to click before posting