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A different way of lowering the 914 |
type2man |
Jul 16 2019, 01:18 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 353 Joined: 3-March 09 From: Miami, Fl Member No.: 10,127 Region Association: South East States |
I've read almost all the threads covering the lowering of a 914. Reindexing the torsions gives you about 2 inches, raising the spindles gives you about an inch. So now you're almost at the bottom. You're at the point where the rubber inserts bottom on the struts and the ride quality suffers.
So I was wondering if anyone out there had ever considered or researched cutting the strut tube shorter and finding a shorter insert. The super beetles have this and it solves bottoming out. Just throwing this out there. Maybe someone here has done it. |
type2man |
Jul 25 2019, 09:47 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 353 Joined: 3-March 09 From: Miami, Fl Member No.: 10,127 Region Association: South East States |
I've already reindexed the torsion and I barely have suspension travel with the height in the above picture. Raising the spindle is something I would consider but it's only 3/4 inch. I will look into cutting the strut body so I can get some suspension travel before bottoming out. Thanks for all the input.
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