Im in the process of rebuilding a coupe, it is imaculate and been dry stored for ten years.
How do you get the coupe to sit lower without coilovers? is it possible?

Thankyou

Chris

You should still have rubber doughnuts then so just use front hi-lo's.

HI-Los are the best option as you can adjust them to suit. The other option is to cut the trumpets but it can be alot of faf as you have to remove the trumpets which is half the job of chaging to Hi-los

Neil

Adjustable trumpets are the way to go but don't make any major adjustments till the car has settled to it's proper ride height. Once the rubber cone suspension has been disturbed it can take 2 or 3 days of driving the car for it to settle back into place.

Thankyou for the replies, hi/lo's seem the way to go.

To hell with the expense much easier than hacking a bit off the trumpet and then thinking you need to cut a bit more off, just take the wheels of and get your spanners in there, remember if you don't have corner weight scales (or even strong bathroom scales) make the same adjustment each side
john

Take the wheels off. It will be much lower then.

It works for my race car, wheels off, wood blocks under each corner of the chassis when stored for the winter
john

Not sure I'm following nordie, what do you do?

Hi MC,
Just joking about how I store my race car - wheels off, best is to buy Hilo's then adjust it to the best setting

Also worth noting the tire sizes. I had mine sat on my Cousin's Mini's wheels for a while and it looked like a roller skate.

I've got 13" Minator alloys on mine and run the same size tire as an early K11 Micra (can't remember the size off the top of my head). With it's "proper" wheels back on it looks lower because the bigger wheel/tire combination fills the arches properly. It actually sits a fraction higher on the road though. It's still got less wind under it than almost anything else on the road and it's total height is less than an Elise so it's centre of gravity is still lower than most other cars.

I'm actually planning to get a set of hubs re-drilled at 4x100mm and for M12 studs as that will make for a much wider choice of wheels at sensible money. In the process I'll probably go up to 14" wheels and later Micra tire sizes to retain the overall radius whilst losing a little sidewall. It'll also let me run a silly narrow space-saver spare wheel which will let me store some gear under the front clam when I'm going camping.

Just being lower might not be the answer and it might cause other problems with the suspension geometry and practicality (I can drive over speed bumps with little fear of rubbing anything).

Iain