Maybe people like rubbing noise
Maybe people like rubbing noise
Speedbumps, multi storey car parks, 3 point turn, carrying people in the back, getting stuff from B+QOriginally Posted by BRoadGhost
So many cons,
Pro's? You get " Yo bro your ride looks sick innit " compliments from the pond life at McD's car parks.
success is only limited by a weak mind
Lowering a car to the point where its detrimental to handling on actual roads is the same kind of daft modification as tinting the windows so dark you can't see out of them properly, or having a stupidly massive big bore exhaust with multiple pipes on a 1.0, its all show and no go. I'd rather have a car that serves its purpose as an actual car, rather than an unuseable ornament. I've never understood this obsession people have that wheels must be hiding half way into the wheel arches, it just looks broken.
the red btcc car is from the days when they had a minimum ride height, and when they pulled into the puts after a session, the scrutineers would pull them in randomly to drive over a 3" block
the later ones were from the era when money was god & they had to look like hotwheels toys, but they were certainly fast & spectaculer.
the op pic is of a show car. it also has a welded chain steering wheel iirc, both are classic mexican lowrider mods, low & slow etc...
unfortunately, there are lots of kids round here with really low cars on mega stiff springs, including the metrognomes, in their rover 100's with the fluid drained out, their heads bobbing up & down like a churchill rear shelf toy.. they are naturally declining, due to the large amounts of skid marks & floral tributes on roundabouts, these are the cars that suffer from terminal understeer(literally)
i used to work with a hotrodder who had a 400hp yb powered hillman husky van. it was so low, it had small castor wheels mounted into its sills so it could clear obstacles.. it was also incredibly fast on decent open roads...
that car looks ****
The wheels at the front can have the arches over them because the geometry is such that to clear any corner on the circuit, that's all the room they need.
Lowering ride height doesn't have to mean you can't get shopping in B&Q, clear a speedbump, use a multistory carpark or do a three point turn. TBH some people would be lucky to even have a passenger, let alone more than one, even if there were seats in the back.
I don't think lowering a car that much is detrimental to it's handling or is just for show, in fact i'd say it's the opposite, providing it's done right.
"I'd rather have a car that serves its purpose as an actual car, rather than an unuseable ornament." Amen ~ And that purpose would be to drive it. The way the arches look in relation to the wheel is just form following function; if it was a saloon you'd be able to see more of the wheel.
Is a nova 3" from the ground too low then?
That nova looks utter crap
The cav looks ok, but you know there for competition use
Personally I prefer to actually have some suspension travel
Rear end it tubbed, with a big air drop system in it. I did have pics in the boot, but i cant find them. The tubbs where bigger than the ones Simps had made. I didn't drive that low.I don't understand how the wheels even turn when there tucked that far inside the arches????? Clearly they do but I don't get it
It's a "show car" simple as that. It does drive that low, it doesn't go shopping, it doesn't carry people (when set that low) It's done for the low at a show, nothing else.
I've set mine as low as i can go, but still drive able. I can go shopping in it, i've had 2 32"flat screen tvs in it, i've had 4 adults and KFC in it(rubbed a bit), i've had a xe engine block F20 and bits in the boot. And it's still drive able. Ok i cant go in a multi story car part in Scum as the ramps are very sharp so even with 2 people it the center box catches every ramp. And i don't have full lock on the steering but...
If i wasn't gonna do any of that id go lower.
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its just a good look to see a nova on the floor then a vw for once
There lies the issue.....
Most will just slam the crap out of a car with the cheapest nastiest coil overs they can and then not fix the issues such as geometry, driveshaft angles, steering arm angles and so on. That's where the claims of it won't handle right come from.
Bit like folks bitching about carbs always going out of tune, when in reality it's just badly setup in the first place.
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