Sagaris ride height (factory settings)

[SAGRIFF]

anybody know what the standard factory ride height was, I have noticed a lot of standard sag rideheights have dropped over time from looking at early photos of the cars.

[clive f]

I`d be interested to know this myself, have just fitted new shocks.

[SAGRIFF]

When I bought my Sag it was 4 years old and had done 30k+ miles, I took ride height settings before fitting the Nitrons, these were

centre chassis rails where they meet outriggers

Front 95mm
Rear 124mm

outrigger setting

Front 112mm
Rear 141mm

both left and right sides were bang on the money,

I'm assuming the above settings must have dropped over the years/miles.

Anybody got any ride height settings from a very low mileage Sag?

[VARLEYHYD]

Mine very similar, but of course tyre wear, fuel and driver dependant

Factory settings as I understand were only ever based on shocker centres wet

Front 340mm

Rear 385mm

G

[clive f]

can anyone else check their ride hieghts for me please?

set the hieght up measuring at the outriggers for reference, and with 125mm front and 155mm rear it all looked good, but after a test run on my usual route it ground out a couple of times on the front end so it still need to go up a bit, the rear tyre to wheelarch looks plenty, but the front definately needs some more, but if I leave the rear, it may end up only being slightly lower at the front, rather than the 25 to 30mm differenc it is supposed to have.

also a check measure ment of clearance under the front spoilers would be a help, tbh I should have done all this before I removed the old ones

Graham, what are these factory shock centres dimensions you refer too??

[SAGRIFF]

I raised the front of mine to 125mm outrigger front and lowered the rear to 134mm outrigger, Nitrons with slightly more spring rate, big improvement over standard

[SAGRIFF]

clive f said:

also a check measure ment of clearance under the front spoilers would be a help,

85mm, but remember it's TVR so they will probably be all different

[clive f]

thanks mate, I have raised it up, the rear 20mm higher than the front, so 135 f and 155 rear, gone for the high side will get it out and check tomorrow with a view to gradually lowering back down a touch.

I`ve been looking at the sags in the classifieds, and its suprising how different they all seem to be when looking at the tyre to wheelarch gaps

what have you used for damper settings, I have started with rear 16 from hard, and front 14 from hard, it felt a little bouncy, so have reduced this to rear 14 front 12.

[SAGRIFF]

clive f said:

what have you used for damper settings, I have started with rear 16 from hard, and front 14 from hard, it felt a little bouncy, so have reduced this to rear 14 front 12.

depends what mood i'm in


hard setting F 9 from hard R11 from hard
med setting F 11 from hard R13 from hard
soft setting F 13 from hard R15 from hard

[VARLEYHYD]

Centre distance is the fitted bolt to bolt centres dimension

What spring rate are on nitrons?;

Standard sag is 450F 400 rear,
Mine is 517F & 450r with billies & runs well with no grounding at legal speeds on poor B roads

I run geo as per my bible modification but have split castor to 75%-25% for reduced B road bump steer

G

[clive f]

springs are 475 front and 425 rear.

will be back up to jason`s in a week or so have have geo reset.