a bit low?

[magpies]

parked next to Williams S2 at Saltburn

mine is on 17" rims and Williams is on standard 15s



also stopped at the Transporter Bridge - the most iconic structure on Teesside

[phillpot]

magpies said:

parked next to Williams S2 at Saltburn

Is William's set up for off road use?

magpies said:

also stopped at the Transporter Bridge

Thought Dennis, Oz and gang moved that to America

[magpies]

phillpot said:

Thought Dennis, Oz and gang moved that to America

yep

this is a plastic/grp copy

[ATS3]

There were a few new and very noticeable scrapes on the speed humps heading out of the car park at the monthly meet today

Andy

[magpies]

ATS3 said:

There were a few new and very noticeable scrapes on the speed humps heading out of the car park at the monthly meet today

Andy

I heard them being formed

[ATS3]

magpies said:

I heard them being formed

[magpies]

[ATS3]

It was a good turn out for the S'ers today at today's meet.

I hadn't realised you were heading across to Saltburn, otherwise I might have tagged along - it could have been a 3 car convoy.

Andy

[AutoAndy]

...bearing in mind that most S's look too high, I am not sure it is actually too low...It looks good to me

Are the tyres low profiles, and so lower diameter overall?

What are the actual dimensions of the chasiss to the ground and the exhaust to the ground?

Edited by AutoAndy on Sunday 13th September 21:27

[magpies]

AutoAndy said:

...bearing in mind that most S's look too high, I am not sure it is actually too low...

Are the tyres low profiles, and so lower diameter overall?

What are the actual dimensions of the chasiss to the ground and the exhaust to the ground?

215/45/17 but I'm looking at 225 (or 235)/50/17 (rear) and 205/55/17 front for my next set

front of outrigger 140mm
rear of outrigger 133mm = now I see the problem - which the change of tyres should help

also found an exhaust hanger split and hanging down

[AutoAndy]

Looking at the suspension wiki and my Outrigger dims... 170 to 190mm... So yours are lower

...yours look better, but you will need some solution on the exhaust height to stop grounding...

[magpies]

yeah.....the tyres I'm looking at will raise the rear 20mm which will give 145 front 155 rear

still lower than most so will see how it goes

[Oldred_V8S]

When I had the geo setup done at a well respected TVR indy. He said that to set the ride height too low would result in the the geo going out with the rise and fall of the suspension .

[phillpot]

Yeah, but it looks better

[Oldred_V8S]

phillpot said:

Yeah, but it looks better

As the bump steer takes you off the side of the road

ETA I agree it looks better and had sought to get mine lowered, but was advised against it. Mind you it looks better in one piece.

Edited by Oldred_V8S on Monday 14th September 10:47

[Oldred_V8S]

magpies said:

also stopped at the Transporter Bridge - the most iconic structure on Teesside

I wonder how many people still think it is in Arizona?

[phillpot]

Oldred_V8S said:

As the bump steer takes you off the side of the road

well respected TVR indy said:

to set the ride height too low would result in the the geo going out with the rise and fall of the suspension .

Ah but, how low is too low

[magpies]

I think mine is

I do get bump steer - even though the steering arm is near as damn it parallel to the bottom wishbone

[AutoAndy]

phillpot said:

Ah but, how low is too low

[Alan461]

Oldred_V8S said:

When I had the geo setup done at a well respected TVR indy. He said that to set the ride height too low would result in the the geo going out with the rise and fall of the suspension .

How low is too low? Mine suffered from bump steer until I lowered it to 160 all round, now it's great but scrapes the exhaust quite a lot