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[johnnysti]

Hi all

Got my hi-lo things from mini spares the other day and am getting some adj rear camber brackets but im worried as ive heard stories of shocks/dampers bottoming out and obviously dont want this to happen.
Ive got adj spax dampers and was wondering if getting lowered mounting brackets will do? Or is there another way of sorting it?

Johnny

[minidaves]

depends how low your going

[johnnysti]

Looking at about an inch. Its just seems to be sitting to high. Have a look at the pic. The gap in the arches is massive!!!

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[minidaves]

u might need to do some more cutting to stop the wheels hitting the body work if u lower it too much

dave

[Sprocket]

The shocks for a lowered car are only about a quarter inch shorter in the closed position but more importantly are a lot shorter in the open position to stop the suspention falling apart when you jack it up. Your wheels will foul the bodywork before the dampers bottom out, unless you are going seriously low, in which case you can get upper shock mounts for the front that raise the top mounting loction and obviously butchering the borywork.

Its wierd realy because I bought lowered rear spax shocks which were only an inch shorter than standard open, and quarter inch closed. The rear suspention trumpets are still slack at the hight I've got the car, when its jacked up. Going lower will only again cause the suspention to fall apart

[Bluemini]

The only way to find out is to try it. If the front shocks bottom out then you can buy the lowered height shock top mounts or mod the ones you've got. The rear is the one that will bottom out the most tho IMO but there is a kind of solution until you can afford lowered height shocks. Take a pair of old tie-bar bushes and cut them and fit them around the shiney bit of the shock at the top, so that if it does bottom out it will have some sort of buffer to take out some of the shock before it rips your mounting point out.

[mambaman]

like mini sprocket sais, they are hardly different, but the idea of the bump stops is to stop the suspension topping out and breaking a balljoint or damaging a wing. As he also indicated the rear will hit the arch a LONG time before you duff the shock. if you've cut the rear arches u need to be looking at rear bumpstops adapted from hydro cars.