ok, just lowered my series 2 50mm...... what a fookin mistake that was, exhaust centre pipe scrapes on every bump, my drive, every little bump in the bloody road.

im on standard rims, wats a good hieght to go for??

do i put standard springs back in or do i just put 17s on and try and raise it up a bit??

any help, greatly appreciated.

cheeRS lads.

 

cut out the middle box on the system
worked 4 me

 

sell springs and get a 30mm drop

 

i rekon 30mm m8 as the ride height is still nice and comfy yet sporty enough for fast road driving...and the car looks sweet as with that drop...got a pic somewhere...

here ya go







and heres mine with a -45mm drop on the front only with 17s







HTH

bassboy

 

Bad Company: haven got a centre box fella, mongoose full system with 3 inch pipe straight through??!!

Bass Boy: Black rs looks well mint , likin it!! does the red s2 rub/scrape at all??

cheers all 4 help!!

 

Far too low imo, I have gone 25 on 17'S and that is about tight imo

 

mitch - red one does scrape with the rims on the arches on the back a touch when alot of people are in the car or when cornering VERY hard apart from that its fine...or if your talking about the exhaust, nope its fine generally but i get the odd few bumps here and here where it does scrape...however i am running a 3" bore exhaust as well

bassboy

 

don't know if changing to 17s will help. try this...

www.tyresave.co.uk/tyresize.html

going from 195/50/15 to 205/40/17 is only gonna give you 20mm extra diameter, so 10mm increase in ride height! that may be enough, i don't know. i suppose you'll lose some of the sidewall flex as well, that might help a bit!

 

Any more than - 25mm tends to give you understeer.

 

ksa74f/231bhp, your car is too slow to have understeer

 

kev - will adjustable TCA's solve the understeer?

bassboy

 

I've got mine at 30mm and it's perfect but i do have a stainless steel custom made exhaust which is set higher up under the car

 

i have 40mm drop on the S1 and when i put my 17s with 205/40s it scraped on every arch with 3 people in the car, going to change it for 25mm i think,
who does a 25mm spring please any one?
cheers

 

ok lads and lady! fanx 4 all help, anyhow solved it now....just got a local garage to weld a new exhaust hanger and clip at either end of the pipe to the underside of my car!!

works lovely, no more scraping!

Wahay!!

 

series1ajc: PI do a -25mm kit for the series 1.

phone burton power . 0208 554 2281

 

I had burton own one on my old saff and there the dogs bollock in my eyes i got to get com front spring for my s1 as the front is very low

 

Was too fast for your old turbo and is way too fast for your 316 rustbucket.

 

They would certainly give you more scope to make it handle better.

 

got my S2 lowered 40mm on 205/40-17 and I have NO problems.. not even with 4 peps in it... I really have to push it hard throu the corners to get ot to scrabe in the arches.. And I have 2.5 goose on it, dosent scrabe either...

 

ksa74f/231bhp, at least mine is all one car. not two welded into one l.o.l.

 

Ok you win seeing as your mums ass is nice and tight.

 

ksa74f/231bhp, are you getting bored with your mum that you have to go to mine

 

Nah only cos you're mum can suck an elephant through a hose.