Author Topic: HOW TO: tell how low your car is  (Read 4992 times)

Offline ...joe

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HOW TO: tell how low your car is
« on: 25 September 2005, 20:57 »
This gets asked every now and then and is the ONLY accurate way of working out how low your car is.

you need to measure from the centre of the wheel, directly up to the lowest part of the metal arch return.

the 8 valves measure at 340mm from the bottom of the metal arch to the centre of the wheel.
the 16 valves measure 330mm.
and carb models run at 360mm.

most manufacturers use the measurement drop calculated from the carb model so a 40mm drop for a 16v is actually a 20mm drop on that car, as the measurement is 40mm from 360mm.

they take the measurements from these points as they are the only consistent points no matter what wheels/tyres/arch kits etc you may have.

make sense?

so to measure you're cars drop, measure the distance from the centre of your wheels to the bottom of the metal arch, compare it to either the carb model or to find out how much lower than standard compare it to the measurement of 330mm for a standard 16v.
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