Belgian1979vette
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I raised the car under the rocker panels with jacks both front and back. If I can get it close to the AIM curbed values the height is just right. Could have been a tad lower, but overall the stance is not that bad, very stock looking.
Like I said, riding on those rubbers is dangerous. During one of my rides, I was cornering and accelerating. Car probably went on the rubbers on the outside corner, due to the engine being in its power band and the cornering power due to the speed. I was attentive enough to get my foot off the throttle or I would have ended up in the ditch besides the road.
On a second occassion I was driving over a speed bump (low, but not very low speed as I usually do). Car went down on the rubbers in the back which I felt like a blow in my back, bounced back immediatly and became very unstable in the rear.
Only way to prevent that was with the koni's on highest setting, but that was like driving with no suspension at all. Hard as rock.
We have some concrete roads here. They are concrete because the Leopard tanks go over them a lot. Not the most even road, but when I went over those with the koni's at the highest setting, my teeth would rattle out of my mouth, that hard kind of suspension setting.
Wil see what the stock spring buys me for ride height. Got me a pair of 78 Original FE7 springs and FE7 front stabiliser bar + back to the rubber bushings (as I believe that the rubber provides some friction to the rotating motion of the bar where the poly doesn't do jack in that area but keep the bar in place.
Luckily I've got my own alignment rack to deal with the realignment afterwards. So besides a couple of hundred dollars the rest is work.
Like I said, riding on those rubbers is dangerous. During one of my rides, I was cornering and accelerating. Car probably went on the rubbers on the outside corner, due to the engine being in its power band and the cornering power due to the speed. I was attentive enough to get my foot off the throttle or I would have ended up in the ditch besides the road.
On a second occassion I was driving over a speed bump (low, but not very low speed as I usually do). Car went down on the rubbers in the back which I felt like a blow in my back, bounced back immediatly and became very unstable in the rear.
Only way to prevent that was with the koni's on highest setting, but that was like driving with no suspension at all. Hard as rock.
We have some concrete roads here. They are concrete because the Leopard tanks go over them a lot. Not the most even road, but when I went over those with the koni's at the highest setting, my teeth would rattle out of my mouth, that hard kind of suspension setting.
Wil see what the stock spring buys me for ride height. Got me a pair of 78 Original FE7 springs and FE7 front stabiliser bar + back to the rubber bushings (as I believe that the rubber provides some friction to the rotating motion of the bar where the poly doesn't do jack in that area but keep the bar in place.
Luckily I've got my own alignment rack to deal with the realignment afterwards. So besides a couple of hundred dollars the rest is work.
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