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[Revheadnz]

 

[nk4e]

Honestly, i can't usually bare to look at cars that low BUT that golf is AMAZING!
Golf's always look good

Also, for some reason or another I am thinking why that car looks finished to me...I have a thing for "unfinished cars" i guess
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Here's another I've grown to love despite its rough exterior

Reminds me of my car... but 👍

 

[Time_Attack]

 

[Keef]

Your taste in MR2s is questionable, methinks.

That's more like it. Note the lack of MK2 MR2s. That's because they do this...

What's the use in turning if your steering wheels are off the ground!?

 

[Time_Attack]

You can't compare two prepared class cars to a stock class car.

btw Mk3s are still a bit you know...

 

[Azuremen]

Is there a problem with Mk3s? Hmm?

That DP one is just about epic looking.

I however like having a windshield.

 

[Bram Turismo]

Not only a lovely car, but also a lovely photograph! 👍

 

[Time_Attack]

Is there a problem with Mk3s? Hmm?

Well you know what they say...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_kxXU2fqME

 

[Joey D]

Well since we are posting autocross cars.

I really need to race my car.

 

[Time_Attack]

SM is such an open class

 

[hemisport15]

I want that corrado. now.

 

[eiriksmil]

 

[hemisport15]

That one too. now.

 

[Revheadnz]

And even a tidy Cressida in the background.

 

[Azuremen]

lol at the swamp cooler in teh VW's window.

 

[benzoboy]

Is that Gaydon?

 

[homeforsummer]

Meh, Euro-style still doesn't really do it for me. They just look a bit... well... stupid. In fact, Eirik's Charade is one of the only cars in that very low style that I've seen that I actually like.

I'll admit they look very clean, and they're certainly a hell of a lot better than covering the car in crappy bodykits, but I always get the impression they'd look a lot better if the suspension was about three or four inches higher.

 

[TheCracker]

Meh, Euro-style still doesn't really do it for me. They just look a bit... well... stupid. In fact, Eirik's Charade is one of the only cars in that very low style that I've seen that I actually like.

I'll admit they look very clean, and they're certainly a hell of a lot better than covering the car in crappy bodykits, but I always get the impression they'd look a lot better if the suspension was about three or four inches higher.

They must be truly awful to drive too. I appreciate their clean looks, but hard springs, no suspension travel and tiny aspect ratio tyres aren't a forgiving combination on anything other than snooker table smooth surfaces.

 

[eiriksmil]

Coilovers in the lowest settings are softer than they are in the highest. It all depends on how much money you put into them, some (usually the cheapest options) are a ball-ache do drive when low because they bottom out all the time, others have dampening adjusters and therefore don't bottom out as well. Well-balanced systems are way better than people think. A friend of mine spent around $500 on his coilies, super-smooth in the lowest setting), although those only wind down like 60-70mm. Still very precise.

My car isn't exactly soft, going softer and lower next year. Still, you forget about the stupid ride when you get to trash it around

 

[homeforsummer]

Surely if they're "soft" at their lowest extremes though they just bottom out all the time? Dampers can only control so much movement when there are literally millimetres to spare between the tyres and the arches?

I guess I'm just more of the school of thought where I'd prefer the ride height at that mix between performance and practical use on the road, wheels just filling the arches (regardless of the size of the tyres - some older cars look perfect even when the wheels and tyres are a little smaller but sit absolutely perfectly in the arches - like this Escort Mk1, for example).

I know I've used the pic before somewhere, but to me this is one of the best tuned Vee-dubs I've ever seen. The stance looks perfect:

 

[Time_Attack]

Wheels are to big. Needs a drop.

 

[Perfect Balance]

Coilovers in the lowest settings are softer than they are in the highest.

That's only true if your coilovers don't let you adjust ride height separate from spring preload. Like mine.

And $500 is very cheap for a set of coilovers, I wouldn't trust my car sitting on something that cheap.

EDIT: That last car needs to go just a little lower. Not enough to cover the tires, but there shouldn't be a wheel gap.

 

[eiriksmil]

That's only true if your coilovers don't let you adjust ride height separate from spring preload. Like mine.

Far from all coilovers let you do that. Besides, spring preload adjusting is there for the exact reasonto compensate with the decompression, , so you can actually wind them all the way down without bottoming out (and rubbing).

I'd rather roll on $500 coilovers than on stock rusted out shocks

 

[Perfect Balance]

Far from all coilovers let you do that. Besides, spring preload adjusting is there for the exact reasonto compensate with the decompression, , so you can actually wind them all the way down without bottoming out (and rubbing).

I'd rather roll on $500 coilovers than on stock rusted out shocks

Although I'm sure they didn't make spring preload adjustable in that way simply to let people slam their cars, I guess that works.

👍 On $500 coilovers > stock rusted shocks.

 

[Keef]

I bet that Scirocco's suspension is more suited to track duty than any of the slammed cars posted in the last ten pages.

 

[Jim Prower]

Wheels are to big. Needs a drop.

Like to beat yourself up, do you?

I'm in the school that the car should have a Tarmac Rally Car's stance: Not so freaking low that the only place you can drive it fast without putting a hole through the oilpan is a glass-smooth racetrack, but not looking like a Rally car in Gravel trim, either. I'd like to put a setup under my car with that sort of thing in mind: the roads aren't great, and while it needs...a lot...of firming up, I don't want to go too far with it.

Also sure some of these guys are 'bagged.

 

[homeforsummer]

I'm in the school that the car should have a Tarmac Rally Car's stance: Not so freaking low that the only place you can drive it fast without putting a hole through the oilpan is a glass-smooth racetrack, but not looking like a Rally car in Gravel trim, either.

That's a good way of putting it actually. Tarmac rally cars pretty much have the perfect stance modern-car wise. As below:

Impreza GpA 1995:

Tarmac-spec factory rally cars are probably some of the best looking cars in motorsport. And hell, does that suspension work or what! I mean it should, for the thousands it costs, but it also shows you can have the perfect amount of "low" without it looking OTT or being completely impractical. And yes, I just descibed an aspect of rally cars as "practical"

 

[Revheadnz]

Just quickly guys, I'm not under any impression that most of the low cars I post up would be excellent to drive that low. They just (I think) look good. Just purely posting pics of cars that look good. If I owned any of these cars I wouldn't be driving with that suspension set-up.
Respect to the guys who do own and drive really low cars though. Obviously they're not setting their cars up for autocross or track work so getting low is the only aim and they are willing to make compromises to ride quality and overall handling for the sake of aesthetics.

And back to our regularly scheduled programming....

 

[McLaren]

Look at the lip on those wheels.

 

[V1P3R]