Lowering my 928
11-09-2002, 03:10 AM
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As I wroten in my earlier post, the PO had the car lowered to the bone...
Just got the beast back from DynoTech (DEVEK's mechanical sister company). Marc corrected the ride height by 25 mm (upwards) in the front, adjusted the rear, and did a complete alignment.
WHAT A TRANSFORMATION!!!
You would not believe how much better the car feels with the new adjustments! Now it can handle both California potholes and bumpy twisty roads with confidence.
No more bone-shattering when hitting a bump, no more bottoming out and damaging the belly pan, no more "bump steer" - more than ever the car runs like on rails.
I can't believe I put up with the disadvantages of the low ride height for so long!!!
Just got the beast back from DynoTech (DEVEK's mechanical sister company). Marc corrected the ride height by 25 mm (upwards) in the front, adjusted the rear, and did a complete alignment.
WHAT A TRANSFORMATION!!!
You would not believe how much better the car feels with the new adjustments! Now it can handle both California potholes and bumpy twisty roads with confidence.
No more bone-shattering when hitting a bump, no more bottoming out and damaging the belly pan, no more "bump steer" - more than ever the car runs like on rails.
I can't believe I put up with the disadvantages of the low ride height for so long!!!
11-09-2002, 04:51 AM
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My car is an earlier model- '85 S2. This has the same front air dam as the earlier US models, and my ground clearance is 4 3/8 [4.375 = 111 mm] at the front without my incredible bulk of 143 pounds/ 64 kg aboard.
Where it really gets scary however is the rear wheel arches; I have less than about 1 cm of clearance; any lowering would probably cause some wheel rubbing! I pulled a wheel one day and stuffed my head into the wheel well. I couldn't see any evidence of rubbing, but I wonder...far as I can tell my car has the stock ride height.
Normy!
'85 S2 5 Speed
Where it really gets scary however is the rear wheel arches; I have less than about 1 cm of clearance; any lowering would probably cause some wheel rubbing! I pulled a wheel one day and stuffed my head into the wheel well. I couldn't see any evidence of rubbing, but I wonder...far as I can tell my car has the stock ride height.
Normy!
'85 S2 5 Speed
11-09-2002, 06:13 PM
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My 83 Euro also had stange height adjustments when I first got it. Namely, the front end was *way* higher than the rear, and it looked weird. I tried lowering the front, but it did not have the adjustment collars. So I tried raising the rear. It still looked weird, and not normal. So when I needed to replace my front control arm bushings, I replaced the front suspension with new struts, and the later style adjustable spring perches. I had it aligned to be slightly lower in the front than in the rear, and lower overall. It looks *much* better now. I have seen many 928's with a lot of space in the fenderwells. I have also seen a few with the same problem mine had. And 18" wheels will not make the car lower. It makes the wheels larger. It is the lower profile tires that do the trick. The car would sit even lower if you had 16" rims with really low profile tires. But the 18" wheels makes it "look" lower, because they fill up the fenderwell more. My pet peeve is cars with huge gaps in the fenderwells. I like them filled up with rubber. 
