[Shotimes] Intrax lowering springs - shortening the sway links?

[cmichaelo@optonline.net]

If you lower your car, you lower the frame of the car. This includes the subframe. In this regard, there's no difference between front and rear.

The only mount points that stay the same, when lowering the car, are the link-to-strut mount points (and to a very good approximation also the link-to-swaybar mount points.)

So you should INCREASE link lenght in both front and rear when lowering the car, if you want to get back to the original/OEM static setting.

Michael
94MTX,green,BOS+,Koni/Intrax,Baer,Corbeau
SHO items for sale: http://hometown.aol.com/cmichaelo/for_sale.html

----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Kegel <d.kegel@comcast.net>
Date: Thursday, November 4, 2004 5:33 pm
Subject: RE: RE: [Shotimes] Intrax lowering springs -  shortening the  sway links?

> Hey, yeah!  Good thinking.  And this only applies to the rear, right?
> The relationship between the front bar and the strut does not change
> when you change springs, as the bar is mounted to the subframe in 
> front.
> Dave
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
> [shotimes-admin@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of
> cmichaelo@optonline.net
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 2:39 PM
> To: Robert Bruce
> Cc: shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: RE: [Shotimes] Intrax lowering springs - shortening the
> sway links?
> 
> 
> I don't understand why the swaybar links would have to be 
> shortened when
> lowering the car. On the contrary, the links should be exteneded in
> lenght.
> 
> Here's how I look at it:
> 
> When lowering the car by using lowering springs, the upper mount point
> of the swaybar links remain the same, i.e., it is NOT lowered, and 
> is at
> the same distance from ground.
> 
> The same is true for the mount point where the swaybar and the links
> connect.
> 
> The mount point that is lowered is that of the swaybar itself 
> since it
> is attached to the frame of the car. Thus, this mount point is now
> closer to ground.
> 
> Therefore, shouldn't the links be INCREASED in length to get back 
> to the
> proper static position?
> 
> Michael
> 94MTX,green,BOS+,Koni/Intrax,Baer,Corbeau
> SHO items for sale: http://hometown.aol.com/cmichaelo/for_sale.html
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