[Shotimes] Dirt Roads?

[James White]

Your problem with the SHO will not be ground clearance, unless you have
springs that have lowered your SHO, but it will be paint versus dirt.

A few years ago we visited my wife's brother up near Montreal, Canada.  He
lived at the end of a wonderful, twisty dirt/gravel road.  The problem was
that the very soft Dunlop SP tires held the gravel (likely a crushed
granite) just long enough to fling it against the paint.  The result was a
sand blasted lower body.  It also had a few scars on the front of the
subframe, but nobody ever sees that part...  The scraped up cats were
replaced later with a PPlus Y-pipe.

regards, Jim White - greensho@crown.net
Valparaiso, Indiana
'95 MTX - 279 - lots of mods, but a bad clutch
'93 MTX - 283k - few mods and starting to rust
'95 MTX - 129k - lots of mods now the "daily driver" from David
Bonds...(thanks again)


----- Original Message -----
From: Frank & Susan Malinowski <yakers@earthlink.net>
To: <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 7:43 PM
Subject: [Shotimes] Dirt Roads?


> Just wonder if there is anyone who regularly drives on dirt roads, the
> worse the better? I know most people tend to keep their SHOs low to the
> ground but there is one long dirt road I want to cover on my vacation and
> the more clearance the better. What are the largest wheels I can put on
not
> for performance but for clearance?
>
> 1992 SHO MTX 140Kmi, pretty stock
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