My car originally had the just the top tube cut and turned down 1 inch to make the car lower. I dropped the back of the car a few weekends ago and realized I need the front to come up a bit. I found a new front beam that has sway a way adjuster in it. If I go with the dropped spindles am I going to run into the same issue of having the car too low? Can someone give me a measurement of how low the front of the car is from pan to floor with just the dropped spindles?
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In a beetle with stock suspension (and 25" tire) the center of the headlight measures about 24' above the ground (minimum legal height). I would think that since a speedster weighs almost the same as a bug that measurement would be good starting point. A 2 1/2" drop spindle brings you down to 21 1/2" (don't know how that relates to the pan to floor measurement) and a shorter tire brings it down a little more (half the height difference). I have 195/55-15's on mine and the headlight center measures about 20 1/2" from the floor. It will drop a little more once the gas tank, bumpers etc is in, but right now it looks like most of the drop is from the spindles and shorter tires; the beam adjusters are sitting at about the middle of their range. The front end is apart at the moment (installing thicker caster shims) so I can't take a beam to floor measurement for you, but it was fairly low (5"?).
PS- As long as the tires clear, the front end can never be too low!
Al
As long as the tires clear, the front end can never be too low! Al
ya ya ya
I went with drop spindles, on a non-adjustable beam, and found that you CAN go too low.
Ron was the 2,5 a bit too low for you?
