Effects of Lowering the Front End

[HealeyRick]

Ah Ha, sneaky devil are ya. And you weren't going to tell anyone either, huh.

Bye the way, any noticeable change in steering or in wear on the tires ?

If you're talking about the V8, pretty hard to keep it a secret once the motor starts:

As far as lowering the front end goes, I tried to bring it back to stock height, but maybe I dropped it a bit. By the time I put enough miles on it to notice tire wear on the Michelin XaS tires, I'll probably be in a wheelchair. Car handles great. I'm thinking that all comes from taking the weight off the front end. All it has for suspension mods in front is heavy duty shock valves and a bigger sway bar.

 

[glemon]

I did the lower the pan thing on my 100 and my TR250, not sure if it is really softening or lowering the spring rate, as you still have the same springs, load, mounting points and lever arm or a-arm length to spring mount point.

I mainly did it because the rear looked a little low and the front a little high. I used nuts as spacers. No ill effects as far as bottoming or scraping, but the oil pan had obviuosly seen plenty of very hard knocks in the years before I bought the car, so maybe I was just lucky, though I have never exactly babied my cars.