Discussion
Just finished fitting my new AVOs and have started to mess about with the ride height. Im tempted to take it lower but dont want to cause myself grief next time I encounter a speed hump!!! so advice from anyone who has done this before would be most useful.
I need to get this set correctly over the weekend as Im booked in for a full alignment on Monday.
Standard height was (from floor to highest point of wheel arch) 67 cm at the back and 63cm at the front. Its now 65cm at the back and 61cm at the front.
The car is now running 350lb springs on the front, 300lb on the rear.
Anyone gone lower without too much scraping??????
I need to get this set correctly over the weekend as Im booked in for a full alignment on Monday.
Standard height was (from floor to highest point of wheel arch) 67 cm at the back and 63cm at the front. Its now 65cm at the back and 61cm at the front.
The car is now running 350lb springs on the front, 300lb on the rear.
Anyone gone lower without too much scraping??????
matt101 said:
Just finished fitting my new AVOs and have started to mess about with the ride height. Im tempted to take it lower but dont want to cause myself grief next time I encounter a speed hump!!! so advice from anyone who has done this before would be most useful.
I need to get this set correctly over the weekend as Im booked in for a full alignment on Monday.
Standard height was (from floor to highest point of wheel arch) 67 cm at the back and 63cm at the front. Its now 65cm at the back and 61cm at the front.
The car is now running 350lb springs on the front, 300lb on the rear.
Anyone gone lower without too much scraping??????
I did slam mine to the ground looked great but had a little problem with getting in and out of my drive. So made it a little higher.
Joolz advised me on using the 10" rears as I was going lower so that it didn't bottom out on the shock and they have worked a treat!
matt101 said:
I got the same advice from joolz when ordering mine. So far I have no grounding probs.
Have you got a pic of yours as it is cerber? would be good to compare yours to what mine is set to at the moment.
I don't have a good one at the moment.
Are you going to the Basingstoke meeting on Sunday?
If so I'll be there and you can see for your self.
Hi guys,
the 10 inch rear spring is there for using softer rates on long stroke avo dampers, if you raise the ride height you have more stroke on compression, you nca overstress springs if you regularly take them close to coil bound, whihc can happen if you run a short spring with high ride height and often load up the boot with luggage.
Running longer springs increases the total compression stroke you can safely run, it also prevents you from lowering the car too much and making the spring come loose on it's seat cos on the avo the open length only just alows for 9.5 spring inches, so you never get MOT fail loose springs no matter how low you run it! .. see, even have your MOT pass at heart when speccing your kits for you!
Matt : run the car as low as you want, but bear in mind that if you go too low on the rear relative to the front the large swing in the rear roll centre may produce some unnerving rear handling traits. on the front the wishbones are always running in such a way as to give a low roll centre anyway, not true of the rear . keep the rear slightly higher than the front to maintain the roll centre axis down towards the front of the car
the 10 inch rear spring is there for using softer rates on long stroke avo dampers, if you raise the ride height you have more stroke on compression, you nca overstress springs if you regularly take them close to coil bound, whihc can happen if you run a short spring with high ride height and often load up the boot with luggage.
Running longer springs increases the total compression stroke you can safely run, it also prevents you from lowering the car too much and making the spring come loose on it's seat cos on the avo the open length only just alows for 9.5 spring inches, so you never get MOT fail loose springs no matter how low you run it! .. see, even have your MOT pass at heart when speccing your kits for you!
Matt : run the car as low as you want, but bear in mind that if you go too low on the rear relative to the front the large swing in the rear roll centre may produce some unnerving rear handling traits. on the front the wishbones are always running in such a way as to give a low roll centre anyway, not true of the rear . keep the rear slightly higher than the front to maintain the roll centre axis down towards the front of the car
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