Pictures of decently Modified cars
Discussion
EDLT said:
Is this line going to be pulled out every time someone mentions that lowering a car to the point where it scrapes the ground is a f
king stupid idea?
I think there's a bit element of king stupid idea?
involved here... Everyone's opinion and experience of what works and is acceptable is different..
not a nicely done photo though, whoever did that needs 
was wondering that myself. I think the artworker may possibly be the 5 year old son of a member of staff.
FCK said:
interloper said:
The first pic is far from decently modified, it just screams "Honey I've F@@ked the handling", really glad its just a photo shop!
So, tell me Dr. Suspension, what's the crack then. Why is it feck'd? (apart from it's a chop only for fun purposes)I don't have anything against lowering a car slightly, a lot of cars seem to come out of the factory jacked up like off roaders but this example just looks unusable on anything less than a pancake flat race track. As I said I'm glad its not real!
lowering properly is very expensive, as suspension geometry is anything but simple, just dropping the ride height is very unlikely to improve anything other than looks.
Last Sundays top gear bought back memories of lots of E30 BMW's that used to run around when i were a teen, lowered with about 10 degrees of negative camber on the rear, and as a result, possessing absolutely no rear end grip at all. (it goes without saying that if the rear tyres are only in serious contact with the ground on the inner edges, they just wont grip at all well.
the common response was "touring cars run lots of camber" while this is true, they also run slick tyres and on smooth tracks, as well as cornering much harder than road cars. When you look at the contact patch of a touring car in a corner the pressure on the contact patch is square to the road surface.
Last Sundays top gear bought back memories of lots of E30 BMW's that used to run around when i were a teen, lowered with about 10 degrees of negative camber on the rear, and as a result, possessing absolutely no rear end grip at all. (it goes without saying that if the rear tyres are only in serious contact with the ground on the inner edges, they just wont grip at all well.
the common response was "touring cars run lots of camber" while this is true, they also run slick tyres and on smooth tracks, as well as cornering much harder than road cars. When you look at the contact patch of a touring car in a corner the pressure on the contact patch is square to the road surface.
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