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Lowering the Ride Height.. Advice?
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Re: Lowering the Ride Height.. Advice? 11 years, 4 months ago #14918

You've lost me. Lower the front but not the rear?

Hard to tell ride height from body roll in the picture.
Eric Kuhns

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Re: Lowering the Ride Height.. Advice? 11 years, 4 months ago #14920

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Eric, this is exactly what I was looking for... Very Helpful! Thank you.

Question: Where on the car do you make your ride height measurements?

Re: Lowering the Ride Height.. Advice? 11 years, 4 months ago #14921

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FYI: I found this article to be helpful:

www.clarks-garage.com/shop-manual/susp-15.htm

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Re: Lowering the Ride Height.. Advice? 11 years, 4 months ago #14922

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I know it doesn't make sense but we dropped the front with 2 spring clamps on each front spring...maybe an inch or so and left the rear way up...the car was 100% nuetral with a decent amount of camber in the front...

I will give you our setup in detail if you want it...email me @ This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . We did not reindex or change spring rates but we are very happy with the handling (We being 4 driving instructors for the driver's edge!)

www.hart-photography.com/photocart/index...mp;viewImage=1899787
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Last Edit: 11 years, 4 months ago by Tabbasco.

Re: Lowering the Ride Height.. Advice? 11 years, 4 months ago #14925

Interesting. I can see how this may work on a stock suspension 944. Street 944's, especially those without rear antisway bars, tend towards understeer. Adding a lot of rake does the opposite, making the car more neutral in a fairly crude, but effective way. Finding a factory M030 rear antisway bar would do this as well, without jacking up the rear roll center, but that would cost some money. So, it may be the secret sauce for a Lemons 944.

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Karbuf,

I measure ride height at the underside of the rockers, about under the front and rear edges of the doors.
Eric Kuhns

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2011, 2012 2nd

Re: Lowering the Ride Height.. Advice? 11 years, 4 months ago #14926

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There is one addition...I have 944 turbo swaybars 26mmF 18mmR. The rest is PFM
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