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Does anyone have a REALLY low torana????

Started by _202LX_ , Nov 06 2008 06:55 PM

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#126 _202LX_

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Posted 08 December 2008 - 11:23 AM

Do you know how much that you have to cut off MRLXSS? I would think around 1 whole coil but unsure

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#127 MRLXSS

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Posted 08 December 2008 - 12:19 PM

Umm cant recall, it a matter of getting out the tape measure!

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#128 _arsnic_apple_

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Posted 08 December 2008 - 06:07 PM

Ok my torrie is a LH (75 i think) has the standard six in it and it an sl model. Dunno if any of that helps you but if u want anything
else like chassis numbers or anything else i can get them.

Thanks Blake

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#129 _studricho_

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Posted 11 December 2008 - 10:18 PM

Damn im out of beer, someone pass me one

I suppose everyone has different needs, if you like low then go for it. You can always raise it if your not happy. Just a word of warning though, a mate of mine didnt have much travel in his suspension and going around a corner he hit a decent bump, the suspension was also super hard, the back end skipped out and nearly ended in the trees. Just be careful .

This is what is normally referred to bump steer. Very dangerous indeed. I remember I was talking a Nissan Gazelle with cut springs for a test drive after doing some work around our test track (just the road the shop was on, it was great loop) and a young guy was behind in his lowered s coupe Hyundai pushing me..

I was coming around the cornet when the gazelle bump steered and without warning got very tail happy. With heart in throat I caught in time.

I pulled up at workshop and then the young guy pulled in a few minutes later white as a ghost. He wanted a wheel alignment as he lost it behind me and hit a gutter.

His strut was about 200 mm further back...It was also his dad's car..

I wish I filmed it when his dad came down..

Moral of the story...If you lower your car, do it right or crash, that simple.

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#130 _gen3torrie_

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Posted 12 December 2008 - 12:17 PM

i hope he crashes then

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#131 mitchg

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Posted 12 December 2008 - 12:21 PM

^^ Your a dick. He probably hopes your stuff gets stolen.

Edited by mitchg, 12 December 2008 - 12:22 PM.

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#132 makka

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Posted 12 December 2008 - 03:36 PM

This is what is normally referred to bump steer. Very dangerous indeed. I remember I was talking a Nissan Gazelle with cut springs for a test drive after doing some work around our test track (just the road the shop was on, it was great loop) and a young guy was behind in his lowered s coupe Hyundai pushing me..

I was coming around the cornet when the gazelle bump steered and without warning got very tail happy. With heart in throat I caught in time.

I pulled up at workshop and then the young guy pulled in a few minutes later white as a ghost. He wanted a wheel alignment as he lost it behind me and hit a gutter.

His strut was about 200 mm further back...It was also his dad's car..

I wish I filmed it when his dad came down..

Moral of the story...If you lower your car, do it right or crash, that simple.

that is NOT BUMP STEER!
bump steer is not caused by cut springs it is due to the geometry of the front end in a car, when the front wheel hits a bump it turns due to the relation of the steering linkages to the stub axle