hotrod4x4 wrote:What Ferrari have u ever seen lowered 15cm from standard???
As for Hotrods, as has been mentioned, its more than suspension.
My thoughts were that suspensions are set up in the chassis and didn't need lowering etc etc, but the other aspect is the trim height. the ody height and headlight positions etc on a hotrod are far from original.
I don't know what the standard ride height would be for a Ferrari is but I doubt it's 15cm stock.
Some of the supercars are only 1 to 1.3 meters from the ground to the roof, there's no way these car's stock ride height is 15cm from the ground I know the ADRs have to be followed but I would think Ferrari is probably going to get the rules bent a little to get them sold in Australia.
The funny thing is lowering the car closer to the road surface gives better handling and raising will cause extra body roll.
I assume this law is 15cm from ground to the chassis rails it might not be the body (though who knows) in terms of a hot rod you can have stock length shocks but run drop axles etc so you keep the standard suspension handling but have the whole hot rod dropped to the ground so in the end you lose nothing with ride handling.
then again you can use air bags, short length shocks, altered suspension mounts etc to get lower but why would you want to drop real low on a daily driver it'd just become a pain in the ass all over the place.
maybe the best way around this problem is an air bag setup so you can run stock height but raise lower as you like when needed.
personally I reckon it'll get scraped fairly soon, all the hot rod clubs and racing clubs will be pushing to scrap it along with you guys in NSW, it'd be a pain to enforce.
The EPA in NSW had the exhaust sound laws and you required a test/sticker stating the DB and you couldn't have an exhaust sound anything above 89DB, even for out of state people they required a sticker as well, (this was a major problem for motorbikes but applied to everything) it got scraped after 18 months to 2 years after coming in.
the transport dept people complained and cops complained about it being too awkward to deal with as hardly anyone outside NSW knew about it and those that did couldn't get a sticker anyway as they didn't have a NSW rego and people in NSW got a sticker quick so cops were testing cars/bikes for a pointless reason.
Just going to be a bitch dealing with it while it's around I couldn't see cops unless they are after fine money really chasing people for this crap.
As an example do you get a fine if your 14.5cm or with in the limits of the ride height adjustment or do you get a warning? if you don't have the engineer ticket.
Another example would be, can you get the fine revoked if you can prove your suspension is sagging, what happens if you go wheeling and a shock has a rock stuck in it or it F's up and ends up fully extended and you have an engineer ticket but a cop pulls you to check the ride height again does the fine become revoked or stays in place?
It's completely F**ked as an enforceable law really.