folks w/lowered cars, please comment...

[sandor@vwot.org (Sandor)]

>
> Mine have a decided upward angle, the car also dropped more than an inch
> I think. I can barely get two fingers between the front tire (195-50-15)
> and the fender. Anson

Ok, I think this depends on which H&R race springs ya got.
There are two varieties...the ones we can generally get here and the
german ones that most shops can't get.
Sal (you're on here occasionally aren't you man?) Guzzo has a set of them
on his bunny and that car is down there, but his are supposedly the german
race springs...this might explain the differences in ride height you guys
are seeing.

As for the a arm problem, I'll be very interested to see what the fix
is...I get the feeling my 75 bunny will suffer from this disease one the
FK coilovers are on.

sandor

>
> Your H&R race springs caused poor alignment of a-arms? My brother's
> car  with H&R race is only lowered a little bit (about 1") and his
> a-arms are  parallel to the ground.
>
> Joe Doty
> IT/Development
> joe@lcnetwork.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anson Clement [mailto:anarchistbooty@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 10:57 AM
> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: RE: folks w/lowered cars, please comment...
>
>
> Same here, H&R race springs have caused a rather deplorable state of
>  alignment. I would certainly be interested in a solution.
> Anson
> Yup it's lowered (H&R coilovers)
> Yup, the a-arms are pointing to the heavens.
> Yup the tie-rods are pointing to glory as well.
> I'd be interested in a good quality spacer.
> Joshua
> Original Message -----------------------
> Here's a few questions for you all:
> a) Who out there has lowered their car?
> b) Of those cars, are your a-arms pointed upwards?
> c) How about your tie-rods?
> I ask because I'm working on a mod to relocate the tie-rods to mount
> from
> underneath rather than from above. I'm also having spacers made to move
> the
> a-arms down to level (or slightly downwards) when the car is lowered.
> This
> will cure the bump steer problems that we get when we drop our cars.
> Lemme know, please. If folks actually need these, I may make some
> extras.
> Thanks!
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