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Subject: How high?
From: Anita & Jim Barrett <anitabrt@mindspring.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 20:52:12 -0500
At 06:52 pm 2/26/97 -0500, you wrote:
>A quick question, gang...
>
>I am about to start looking into the Tiger's suspension and was 
>wondering if anyone wouldn't mind measuring the distance of the 
>bottom of their Tiger's body from the ground, measured at both the front 
> of the rear wheel well and the rear of the front wheel well.  Mine 
>seems extremely low.  I have determined that the noise I have been 
>hearing during moderate acceleration is the drive shaft U-joint 
>contacting the underside of the car as the rear squats down.  This is 
>not good.
>
>Thanks in advance for your help.

Rick,
        6" front and rear from the lower lip.  Note that my Tiger is no
longer stock.  You need "Traction Masters", to keep the rear springs
 from winding up.  Before I got mine long ago, I bent both shocks
 and bradded the u-joint yoke so bad I almost didn't  get the u-joint out
.  I had a Boss 302 in my Tiger at the time doing autocross with
 TERRIBLE wheel hop.  With a 351C 4 barrel, slightly hopped up
 I have no wheel hop or yokes hitting the body.  My rear springs
 set almost flat  when I am parked.
         Jim Barrett Tiger II 531C and others.


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