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01-18-2005
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Touring car look (drop)
Have you noticed that touring cars arent really slammed?
They are low enogh to maybe allow .5 -1 finger gap.. or am I wrong?
They are low enogh to maybe allow .5 -1 finger gap.. or am I wrong?
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Well they're race cars. They need suspension travel and ground clearance. Not to mention they need enough room that the tires can still clear the body, even with damage. You gotta get the gap close for aerodynamics, but you're never going to see a completely slammed race car, there's zero functionality in that.
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Rep Power: 0 Depends on the Race Car! On our Crawford Daytona Prototype the suspension only moves around an 1" so it can be really low to the ground. CF Splitters get ate up all the time from rubbing the ground.
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Rep Power: 356 Boilermakers got it right. GT cars, specifically ones based on productioin cars need suspension travel. once you get in to Formula cars, such as the Daytona Prototype's shown above, you can design a suspension to work well with much less suspension travel.
For examples Look at Grand-Am Cup cars and World challange cars...
For examples Look at Grand-Am Cup cars and World challange cars...
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Rep Power: 400 He's using Koni Yellows and Eibach Sportlines unless something has reciently changed.
No one who races is going to have a super slammed car. Even when I had 500 lb springs in the front of my car, I could still compress the front suspension to the point where I had a 205/50/15 inside the fender (I could get almost my whole hand in the gap with the car sitting static.) The suspension needs to move A LOT.
No one who races is going to have a super slammed car. Even when I had 500 lb springs in the front of my car, I could still compress the front suspension to the point where I had a 205/50/15 inside the fender (I could get almost my whole hand in the gap with the car sitting static.) The suspension needs to move A LOT.
01-21-2005
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Originally Posted by Profoxcg
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do you autocross? what setup / ride heigth do you have ?
do you autocross? what setup / ride heigth do you have ?
Yes, I autocross... I'm acutally the Las Vegas Regions Solo 2 chair, so I'm in charge of it locally.
I've never actually measured my ride height, but Boilermaker has it right.. I'm on Eibach Sportlines with Koni Shocks... allong with a smaller front anti-roll bar (15.9mm) and a slightly larger rear antiroll-bar (25.4mm Hollow 2 point adjustible)
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