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greg wrote:True, they do appear to be at full compression when sitting at ride height... Perhaps mick has bumpstopped the car to sit like this? It would definately be an easy way to get the car to sit nice and low
it is sprung over, no need for those arched 2inch OME springs, they sit dead flat.
I have about 1 inch to 1 1/2 inches of up travel on a 14inch travel shock. It uses basically all of the down travel available too.
Sorry Mick, what i meant was - in the pictures above your front springs appear to be sitting flat, and the shackle appears to be maxed out to full compression...
mickbj42 wrote:Because the springs are perfectly flat the shackle on compression and extension will always pull forward.
Does that mean that your ride hight is effectively sitting at full compression? Is it bumpstopped at that point too?
That would definatly be the easiest way to get the car to sit as low as possible all the time - though i gather it would result in a bumpy side... how does it go?
i just sort of answered this but i will answer it again anyway. Everyone is too fast on the replies!
On the front it has at the shock set up with about an inch of up travel on it. I could set it up so it had more but the tyres will eat into the firewall too much. The shock is pretty much my bumpstop. I know thats a bit of a no-no but i havent had a problem with it so far.
It rides all right, the shackles make a bit of a clunk on big bumps bit its not too bad.
The rear is set so it has about 1/4 compression, 3/4 droop. I think they are a 12 inch shock on the rear.
greg wrote:Sorry Mick, what i meant was - in the pictures above your front springs appear to be sitting flat, and the shackle appears to be maxed out to full compression...
Is this the ride height that your car sits at?
yeah the pic is at ride height. With the flat springs i have in the front on compression of the spring the shackle swings away from the chassis. If you have an arched spring as the spring compresses it gets longer so the shackle swings backwards.
How far forward is the front axel from the firewall? Or at least - how far forward did you move it? That's where i thought it would rub, but evidently it doesn't...
it doesnt hit the firewall but i cut it out nearly to the door. I have reare up front with the centre bolt drilled 4 inches forward. I am having a few issues with the front springs wrapping up so i am going to put some hilux fronts in.
I also bent a set of rear springs so i am putting hilux fronts in there too.
I am going out on thursday for a photo shoot so i will get the rears done for then but the fronts will be done after that.
I was the first car on the track. It did it all easy up until cv rock. I got over it but broke the bunting when it bounced sideways. Gonads and fergo said to give it some numbers so i gave it some I should have just winched it like everyone else ended up doing.
I should have just winched it like everyone else ended up doing.
But they beat using spacers