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Originally Posted by Ciotti
Yes always, the end.
You can't take away 2+ inches of suspension bump travel from a car and still have it drive and/or handle properly anywhere other than race tracks, you just can't and that's the end of it. The car will either pound into the bump stops constantly which induces about the worst thing possible which is infinite spring rate or you will have to run such an extreme spring rate that it may as well be on the bloody bump stops! Car companies spend millions of dollars on R&D to build a car's suspension, you just can't chop 2 inches of travel off of what they built without seriously affecting the handling and/or ride quality, it's physics, it can't be argued. Lowering a car effects so many more things than just bump steer, just off the top of my head, roll center, camber, anti-dive, ackerman, scrub radius, the list goes on and on. Look at built up track day cars or autocross cars that are still using factory suspension components and %99 of them that are fast are at sane ride heights.
Come out to an autocross and I'll take you out for a ride in a car that truly corners well so that you have a proper benchmark of what does and doesn't handle well  |
Wayyyy to much Top Gear my friend. Lol
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Originally Posted by Kevin S
JM where you find that pic? I <3 that car but the mans photobuckets been down. His brother used to have a white coupe with that suspension / wheel setup. he used to have a post on honda tech. The 16 x 8 0 offset with i think 195's. As far at suspension stock struts with springs and "custom" Strut mounts.
Edit: I dont think el peo is worthy of that trip yet lol.
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Thats probably where I saw the pic, I'm on H-T more then the MR2 boards. lol...
I never knew an honest neon pic could stir such a buzz
BTW you really need a CF or Black trunk, **** looks ill on the peons