Axle Height, How low is your teen? Options

[BMartin914]

Just finished installing a set of turbo tie rods and adjusted the ride height and toe afterward. Axle height is per my Haynes manual 3.5" - 3.75" = a(center of wheel cap to road surface) - b(center of torsion bar cap to road surface) and looks REALLY high.

Front wheels have significantly more fender gap than the rear.

I am trying to get it adjusted to a good ride height before I go for an alignment. Is it best to just try and get the front and rear fender gap as close as possible?

What do you have your axle height set at for optimum ROAD performance? Best compromise between handling, tire wear and stance.

Any suggestions are more than welcome. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/pray.gif)

Ben

[Joe Ricard]

Technically the front A-arm should be level to the ground. Godd thing I am not a technician. As a sorta Engineer mine angle upward to the spindles. not much maybe a degree. Put a level on it and see what ya got.

If you turn the torsion bar adjusters take the wieght off the suspension ot you could strip the adjusting bolt. "righty tighty goes up".

3.5" at all the lift donuts should be good for the mother frog handling.

If you feel like screwing around for awhile you can string align the car setting ride hieght then camber all wheels . Then toe Caster is the only thing I can't accurately measure. I get it close angle wise comparing the strut angle to vetrtical side to side.

I suppose once I get serious about racing I can go to an alignment shop and argue my settings with the TECHNICIAN. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/pray.gif)

BTW my toe in near zero and tended to wander on the freeway at slow speeds. around 75 - 85 tracked much better.