lowering springs

[lambert]

Hi all.

Whilst at a local show I was talking to twisted performance about lowering springs for my 90. The consensus being that minus 35mm will improve road manners and if used with dislocation cones wouldn't limit it off road. The added benefit being it being easier for short people to climb in and out.

Any thoughts or advice?

[Saffy]

and finish off with a set of low profile tyres on a set of deep dish alloys... oh she will sure look preddie   

[mattyme]

you could always make it your smoker and black the windows out and start doin drive by shootings!! lol

i diont think landrovers are the ideal donor vehicle for pimping your ride!! 

[Range Rover Blues]

Oh the whole debate about dislocation cones.  I would say a set of lower, stiffer sprinsg will really struggle to keep any pressure on a drooping wheel.  You will always have to compramise road handling with off-road ability.

Not prepared to compramise? then get EAS

[doda456]

Havew u considering x springs?   Have a quick google search, but they may provide you with a soloution, as you can have whatever springs you like and let the xprings do the articulating

[adafish]

what ya should have done, after talking to TWasted Performance, popped next door and had a look at Porny's project Puma Ben10...lowered by 2" from standard, stiffer anti-roll bars , custom shocks, 20" RRS alloys.......MINT, come n have look at Stoneleigh and chat..

[SI COOPER]

lower a land rover  for better road handling buy a car would be the solution

[lambert]

Problem with buying a car would be still needing to tow the 3.5 t trailers.

[diesel_jim]

Ahem..... Relocation cones..... 

[Range Rover Blues]

Problem with buying a car would be still needing to tow the 3.5 t trailers.

Ah, that's another issue.  Lowering it would make a better towcar for sure, but off-road it will be worse.  I like to idea of the X-Spring but not sure they are strong enough to apply any real pressure given how stiff your lowered springs would undoubtedly be, otherwise they wouldn't work as X-springs with longer softer springs.  I think

[lambert]

X springs could provide a neat solution. So how about, plus 2in damper mounts all round, minus 2inch springs, terrafirma standard height big bore dampers and x springs on the back and no rear anti roll bar. Oh and an ashcroft lsd in the back too.

[Dirt-Devil]

Hi all.

Whilst at a local show I was talking to twisted performance about lowering springs for my 90. The consensus being that minus 35mm will improve road manners and if used with dislocation cones wouldn't limit it off road. The added benefit being it being easier for short people to climb in and out.

Any thoughts or advice?

I've been reading this and was wondering what sort of handling are you trying to improve? If it's body roll then stiffening up the roll bars and maybe giving the vehicle a wide stance would sort that out more than playing with different springs because   you'll have a whole new set of problems when lowering it with dampers blowing out due to over compressing while off-roading and as you said in a later post, you still need to be able to tow 3.5t's

[lambert]

The objective is to make it easier for my mum and dad to get in and out. She is short and he has had both hips replaced. Tried side steps but the parents lack the agility needed. I could put it back on small tyres but I need the air under the diffs as bits of the farm are deeply rutted so i need the 32's. So it is not really for handling but for access. Hth.

[Range Rover Blues]

Air Suspension

I have seen it fitted to a Defender.

[Saffy]

I'd have to fit one of these if I had to get my ol'mum in and out off defender all the time........

[Range Rover Blues]

Where have I heard that before

http://www.mud-club.com/index.php/topic,80269.0.html

[lambert]

It would seem that all the above-mentioned ideas have been discounted in one fell swoop. They are seen by the fund managers as being overly expensive and too complex. The preferred alternative being to fill in the ruts that only I and tractors can drive and get some cheap 205's . This is the boring old git approach but it does mean I can get my freestyle alloys back on and it will also make the gearing better for towing and as a side benefit I will be even fitter when i have filled in all the ruts. Yay, I think.