I never had trouble when I ran taller-than-stock tires (175R14), but now
that I have 175/70-14s I often scrape on curb cuts. The ride height
difference was only about 5/8 inch, I think, so you can see it's a pretty
near thing.
One of these (well, more in the nature of an offroad excursion) just cracked
the weld at the front of the muffler, so now it is sagging downward, making
measurement pointless.
Off the top of my head, I would say if you have 4.5 or 5 inches to the low
point of the muffler, you are not far out of normal. Any more is a bonus.
--
Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
on 9/28/09 3:50 PM, Frank P. Marrone at itswonderful@comcast.net wrote:
> I called out the frame rail because it seems like a good easy to reference
> point. From there I can gauge if my particular exhaust system configuration
> is ok or at least in the norm.
>
> My car has stock rims with a stock or nearly stock tire. It probably has
> sagging springs but that is something I can better access after the car is
> back on the ground.
>
> I take it that exhaust to road clearance is a sore spot? I've had a couple
> of MGBs and I have to say I've had more problems with exhausts on other cars
> but maybe I was just too pre-occupied with other issues on my MGBs.
>
> Frank
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mgs-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:mgs-bounces@autox.team.net] On
>> Behalf Of Max Heim
>> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 3:20 PM
>> To: MG List
>> Subject: Re: [Mgs] Stock ground clearance?
>>
>> Somewhere between "barely adequate" and "not nearly enough", depending on
>> instantaneous local conditions.
>>
>> <g>
>>
>>
>> Explain again -- you want a measurement to the frame rail? But the exhaust
>> hangs quite a bit below the frame rail. Clearance to the frame, of course,
>> is dependent on wheels and tires fitted, spring health, vehicle &
>> passenger
>> weight, and so on, so I don't know that measuring my roadster will help
>> you.
>>
>>
>> --
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