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Ground Clearence
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 7:11 pm
by James0121
alright ppl
Just interested in what sort of ground clearences you have from the floor to the bottom of your splitter?
cheers
Re: Ground Clearence
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 7:23 pm
by bstardchild
James0121 wrote:alright ppl
Just interested in what sort of ground clearences you have from the floor to the bottom of your splitter?
cheers
Not much now
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 7:25 pm
by James0121
awww yes but you will soon have her back on the road
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 7:34 pm
by Speedlaw
I'm guessing 2,5 - 3 inches. But I haven't measured it.
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 7:48 pm
by James0121
aww thats the same sort of height i was thinking of going with a new splitter. Do you have problems with speed bumps ?
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 10:04 pm
by cruisin_chris
2" at the most, poor thing is slammed, no real problems with bumps, just mudflaps scraping, bumpy irish roads are interesting though, lol
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 7:58 pm
by Speedlaw
I have trouble getting out of my street every morning, it 'headbutts' the speedbump. Not nice, but it's doable... I have more trouble with driveshaft bumping (it's hitting the chassis).
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 10:25 pm
by SteB
surely ground clearance for something like a sump is more important !
saying that, im riding nice and high, so ignore me !!
Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 7:14 pm
by jezmk4
Yea
Like alex said, the problem low is the damn driveshaft banging agaisnt the chassis under acceleration, if the tyre tramps a bit
also, the ARB rubs on the chassis too
but if you had a deep splitter, you could easily get it down to an inch of splitter clearance
Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 7:16 pm
by SteB
whoaa, thats low!
Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 8:00 pm
by bstardchild
^ Like he says - Sheesh there are road joins/overbanding round here that would catch that.....
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 10:13 am
by James0121
That is low i dont think im gunna want to go that low but i think i will be getting a deep splitter though to make it look lower at the front.
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 7:06 pm
by dubmk4
my front splitter (vr6 type on mk4 lowered 50mm) is twated from stuff. went over a traffic calming roundabout you know the ones that are just basically painted on the road.just drove over the right hand side of it at about 30 and it pushed the left side into the road and crunch!
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:14 pm
by spankone
this was the lowest mine ever has been back when i had 14's with a 45 profile
i had the 8v spliter of the otherday and it had loads of little scuffs all over it
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:25 pm
by dubpolo
MK5 i know. i can get over speed bumps without ripping my engine out!
