I ran across this car on Craigslist and the ad says it has a "3 inch lowering kit." Hmmm.

I have adjusted the front ride height with the torsion bar adjustments on my car, but not rear. Rear would require adjustable coilovers or relocating the mounts like Chris' kit from Tangerine, right?

I don't know how they went about lowering this thing with a "kit" but hopefully they didn't just cut the springs or something. I'm a little leery. Any thoughts?

leary

Run away.

I'll sell you a lowering kit. Looks like this...

Lowing kit???

I grew up around people who made some lowering KITS!

Needed: Sawzaw or Cutting torch and no brains and your set.

i knew a guy in high school with a hyundai excel he lowered by putting spring compressors on. you know, the tool that goes on the outside of the spring? yeah...he was a dum ass

Now seller says "former race car with badges."
Oy.

I would appreciate hearing from the suspension experts on "lowering." How is it done right?

Yeah, my lowering kit is a torch. I just heat the spring red hot and the car drops. Niiice.

Rand, can you go see it and take lots of pictures for us. We got to see it now!

Lol. No kidding. It's a couple hours away, but some good scenic territory down that way, so it wouldn't be a waste of time. I seriously want some good close up pics of the work. It's either a pathetic hack job, or who knows - what if they did it right?

Rust caused the suspension points to go away. There you go. Lowered 3 inches.

Here you go....




Available online at Kaleco Auto.

the rear of that car is really not that low...could be done with shorter than stock springs (140s or 180s) and normal Bilstein rear shocks with the cir clip set in one of the bottom 3 notches...Or with a set of treaded collars for the springs...
my last car was lower in the rear than that....

the front is a different story....must have some nasty shaking up front at speed...
Not to mention the shocks with no travel.

Hey! I actually want to know.

I just bought a race ready 914 and it came with brand new springs and two new sets of rear springs. I dont know what is what.

A refresher course would be great.

What springs? What shocks? What adjusters?

(lets keep it to rears for this one;-).

Stu

To get the needed suspension travel up front, I raised the spindles on the struts and shortened the struts and installed Koni race shocks. It was a little overkill. If I was to do it all over again, I would just shorten the struts and go with the short Koni race shocks.

In back I run the Koni yellows with adjustable spring perches. To keep the shocks from bottoming out, I welded on a lower shock mount on the trailing arm. Click to view attachment

I'm having trouble getting the photos in:
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Or just getting old, parts sag the older we our car gets.

If interested I have a brand new in the box Racer Chris rear lowering kit.
Let me know if interested, good price.......