How Low To Go

[bald1e]

escort mk4 5 door what's the best ride height

- 40mm
- 50mm
- 60mm

[Deleted]

Lower than 60!

[bald1e]

how lows that estate then ?

[scratcher]

Low enough to bring the tyre into the arch

[ChasR]

You ask 10 people you will get a few different answers. This will be many subjective answers for this...


What do you plan to do with the car? Is it a daily driver? Does it see trackdays? Are you purely after looks without giving two hoots about handling?

[bald1e]

weekend car, planing on sticking 15 inch wheels on and want to lower the gap,
after seeing a few images i think that 60 mm will be good.

[ChasR]

If it is a weekend car and you want some handling left to it I reckon 60-80mm should do the job. You can go lower but the geometry can start to go a little skewish if you push the car harder and TBH for me anyway country roads can be a nightmare to travel down. With my 944 some roads near me were almost undrivable with how it was scaping the ground. It did look as cool as anything however .

[igor]

I'm with Chasr as far as maintaining the usefulness of the vehicle goes. I couldn't lower my daily even if I wanted to because some of the back country roads and farm tracks I drive on are impassable for lowered cars unless one wishes to grade the gravel with the sumpguard. Not saying lowering is wrong, just that it needs to be done sensibly.

[arge]

Always as low as possible. Always.

[benjy_b]

You know you're low enough when:

- there's no gap between the tyre and arch
- nobody wants to ride in it
- everybody asks if it's broke
- speed bumps are you're worst enemy
- it's a nightmare to get on a jack
- "professionals" pull a face every time you get work done

[fordperv]

My only word of advice when lowering a mk4 depending what exhaust you have fitted and what size wheels/tyres you have, you may get problems with scrapage from the rear bend before the backbox, i had to raise mrs fp's rs turbo as the exhaust (3" mongoose system with a 4" tail) scraped on a straight road with nothing in the back, that was with 15" wheels and 45 profile tyres

[concertocharlie]

as much as possible...

....then some more

[Dez]

There's two types of people In this world-
Those who measure their drop down from stock, and those that measure their ride height up from the floor......

[discostu]

It's all good fun until you hit a cats eye @ a ton plus (M'lord)

[Dez]

Sept 24, 2015 21:41:12 GMT discostu said:

It's all good fun until you hit a cats eye @ a ton plus (M'lord)

could be worse, you could get home and have nothing but carling to drown your sorrows.

oh.....

[discostu]

Sept 24, 2015 21:49:34 GMT Dez said:

Sept 24, 2015 21:41:12 GMT discostu said:

It's all good fun until you hit a cats eye @ a ton plus (M'lord)

could be worse, you could get home and have nothing but carling to drown your sorrows.

oh.....

I went to the pub after the stress of getting the poxy sump off with my Heath Robinson tools....

[igor]

This is why some of us like to have a bash plate to protect the sump.

[bald1e]

well decided to go 60mm so just got to decide what wheels to have

[discostu]

Sept 26, 2015 9:50:43 GMT igor said:

This is why some of us like to have a bash plate to protect the sump.

See that big shiny thing in the picture?? The big shiny thing with two catseye type scrapes along it?