lowering help

got my mk1 on coilovers but still want to go lower any ideas? (without using air ride etc) cheers

smaller profile tyres and/or wheels

cut thew top of the turrets out and weld bands in them to make the shock sit higher up in the body… its how they got "the bucket" as low as it is.

this is "the bucket"



cheeers!

Why do you want it lower? I've found coilovers did the job just fine.

i was gonna say jesus how low can you go! the running gear in my car is about 5cm off the floor and thts just with coilovers! I mean like wishbone mounts and gearbox mount at the front and then the back axles about tht far off the floor too.

Altho thinking about it i guess if you did cut the suspension turrets and extend them the coilovers would have to be wound so low and the running gear would be at less of an angle maybe?

The inner CVJs would still be at the same angle, since the position of the hub relative to the gearbox is the same.

Personally, I've found that the first thing to catch is the exhaust manifold-tube join (on a 4 branch manifold, which is not standard of course). Its a triangular flange under the car near the ARB and it sits a little lower than normal. I've scraped it a number of times, including quite a bit "bang" when I went over one of those metal features on the road where swinging gates close and secure to. Also, it caused grief at the MoT due to the jack not being able to slide front-back. It was only a couple of inches clear of the ground, and that was on the flat, with an 80mm drop. I know that with slightly smaller tyres (185/60R13 instead of 175/70R13) I could safely lower it to 90mm without rubbing.

Other people have found that the wishbone mount base area is the first thing; others that the driveshaft impacts the bodywork/chassis leg.

No doubt the car in the pic above had a whole load of modifications over & above the actual dropping of the ride height, so it could physically roll without scraping some or other components along the ground.

Remember that roads are not that smooth either, you need some kind of suspension.

I catch everything lol. I nearly got into a fight with a guy in a 4x4 the other day as he refused to go onto the verge. If i'd've gone on he'd have had to winch me off lol.

The rear wishbone mounts on the bucket were raised by the hight of them.  They also hacked both front and rear inner wings out.

unless you like driving at 20mph to avoid catseyes etc then coilovers are about as low as you'd want for british roads!

my driveshafts are machining themselves clearance and i have a semi circle taken out of both my rear inner wings from the beam hitting them!!!!!  the floorpan is getting rather worn in places and i am getting mildly concerned that one day i'm going to hit a surprise pothole and end up with a brakeline ripped off.

Jon.

and at what lowering (in mm)....?

I don't really know how low I want to go it's just the fact that the stance isn't what I want yet. I'll upload some pictures later tonight and see what you think. Cheers so far For the help

I'm close to 120, about 115 I think. got about 5mm of thread left.

I'm running 60 section tyres on the 13's i'm on at the mo which has improved things a lot, i.e i'm not ripping catseyes out with my exhaust clamps anymore.  still bangs like hell as the drive shaft hits the chassis if i fail to miss a pothole/cave though.

Jon.

edit:  Mine is a small block though, so i don't have to worry about smashing my sump in like the big block cars do!!!!  My downpipe is in the way first lol!!!

I'd go lower but i've written off two sumps in the past 6 months already, goddamn UK roads