Ground Clearence

James0121 · Post by **James0121** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 7:11 pm

alright ppl

Just interested in what sort of ground clearences you have from the floor to the bottom of your splitter?

cheers

bstardchild · Post by **bstardchild** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 7:23 pm

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

James0121 · Post by **James0121** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 7:25 pm

awww yes but you will soon have her back on the road

Speedlaw · Post by **Speedlaw** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 7:34 pm

I'm guessing 2,5 - 3 inches. But I haven't measured it.

James0121 · Post by **James0121** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 7:48 pm

aww thats the same sort of height i was thinking of going with a new splitter. Do you have problems with speed bumps ?

cruisin_chris · Post by **cruisin_chris** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 10:04 pm

2" at the most, poor thing is slammed, no real problems with bumps, just mudflaps scraping, bumpy irish roads are interesting though, lol

Speedlaw · Post by **Speedlaw** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 7:58 pm

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).

SteB · Post by **SteB** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 10:25 pm

surely ground clearance for something like a sump is more important !

saying that, im riding nice and high, so ignore me !!

jezmk4 · Post by **jezmk4** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 7:14 pm

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

SteB · Post by **SteB** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 7:16 pm

whoaa, thats low!

bstardchild · Post by **bstardchild** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 8:00 pm

^ Like he says - Sheesh there are road joins/overbanding round here that would catch that.....

James0121 · Post by **James0121** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 10:13 am

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.

dubmk4 · Post by **dubmk4** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 7:06 pm

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!

spankone · Post by **spankone** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:14 pm

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

dubpolo · Post by **dubpolo** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:25 pm

MK5 i know. i can get over speed bumps without ripping my engine out!

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