Lowering FC

[Burnsy]

Yeah, I will have the back springs reset by the guys who did Mark's.  Funny how it looks that way now as 24 hours ago the back was alot lower than the front, my front sat way high, knocking less than two inches off the springs has dropped the front nearly four inches, you could put your fist beween the arch and the top of the tyre before

[NO NAME]

don't cut one in half becuase they rattle, especailly on parramatta rd, also, if you don't drop the back you end up with weird steering.
this is what sucks becuase you just miss out on selling the other spring to you mate. you have to measure half, and then leave one extra coil unless you remove your bump stops wich can also make noises on the bumps.
its funny that you say it might look better in wedding photos, does it make the bride look tall, my wedding had 3 very low old holdens but what I really thought was funny is that a wedding car company we service at work has 3 new clk's, with these things you are paying about $100000 just for its ride and handling qualities. these cars that are retailling in excess of 200k. but the car is a 2 door meaning the bride has to climb out past the front seat, next, its a convertible so, so much for all that time at the hairdresser but what really gets me is they are lowered so low that it practically has no suspension and it rides on 20" mega low profile tyres so when the bride arrives, hair messed up from the wind, dress ruined from climbing in and out she can now chuck up her shaken to the shit house guts.

praise the lowered!

[NO NAME]

we should be talking skid plates, hydrulics, bags, cutting our floors, fitting lakes pipes etc, 2" still has that leyland brothers look.
If you really want to keep it high, be sure to fit some hallibrand 12 spoke spindles to the front with cheetah slicks on the back and remove the front bar at least.

[normd]

     BURNSY ,  BURNSY ,  BURNSY ? ? ?    WHAT ARE YOU DOING .......   Showing Harko machinery like THAT ? ? ?    He does enough damage with the little ones . ...  
   
   Blacky  , When the FJ was "the car"   all the old cockies (farmers) around here used to put a "bag of wheat" in the boot . used to stop them from bouncing around on the dirt roads . You would be surprised how many did it.

    Norm  

[Tailshaft_Tim]

Even at age 12, I remember being suitably horrified watching my Dad remove the front springs from our GTR-XU1 and asking me to cut a couple of rings off to lower it.  It was hardwork for a little kid with a hacksaw, but once cut and re-installed the Torana looked fairly tough. I never got to drive it to find out how they went...

Ah the dodgy days of living in Coolaroo Victoria in the 1980's.  For those that have seen "The Castle" movie might remember the scene where the brother is asked to move the Toyota, to move the Cortina, to get the Torana out?  That was us, except we didn't holiday in Bonnie Doon  

[Tailshaft_Tim]

Oh, and if you're ever looking for a way to "raise" your FC, I do not recommend you attempt it by dropping a tailshaft.  Sure, you get plenty of height all of a sudden, but the landing isn't so crash hot (so to speak).  This is me at age 17, first run with ACT Club, after trying to keep up with those Holdens with red-motors.  Although, once the tow-rope was hooked up, I did atleast manage to keep pace with the HR...

[Glenn 'Stinky' Stankevicius]

Hey Burnsy, I had a peep at your web-site, what is the L300 Front End fitted to?

[Burnsy]

The L300 was on either a EK or EH (I think EK as I tend to do searhes based on my car), I can't remember, I found it on the web somewhere some time ago.  It looks pretty neat and that is why I asked the question in the other post about rack and pinion front ends about what anyone knows about them?  Can't for the life of me find the site they came off - spewin!