Author Topic: Lowering a C-body  (Read 645 times)

Offline 73dce

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Lowering a C-body
« on: February 06, 2009 - 08:41:36 AM »
I'm going to use lowering blocks on the rear, but I'm stumped on the front.  I had a friend tell me to look into drop spindles, but no one makes them for my car.  Any suggestions?  You guys have seen my car before, but I'm going to post a couple of pics.  Aaron did a chop for me, so I want to post the before and after.  I realize a lot of people won't like it, but I think it looks really cool.




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Re: Lowering a C-body
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2009 - 12:28:17 PM »
Like any mopar of the era, you can turn the torsion bars down some to aid in height reduction. You may be able to get 2-4 inches depending on how high up you are to begin with. Have your alignmnet checked afterwords. If you start having bottoming problems because of the reduced wheel travel, Firm Feel make lareger size C body torsion bars to assist.

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Re: Lowering a C-body
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2009 - 01:02:20 PM »
Cool Car !!! :bananasmi :bananasmi

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Re: Lowering a C-body
« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2009 - 12:45:45 PM »
You guys have seen my car before, but I'm going to post a couple of pics.  Aaron did a chop for me, so I want to post the before and after.  I realize a lot of people won't like it, but I think it looks really cool.
It's good that those people won't be at CCC. That's a real nice chop, and it'll be a real nice ride too!!
Keep the pictures coming! I like to see something else than E-bodies once in while too!
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Re: Lowering a C-body
« Reply #4 on: February 07, 2009 - 01:27:37 PM »
That'll be a cool ride when you get it done.  :grinyes:

When I see the front end of that car it reminds me of the car from Thunderbolt and lightfoot... they did opposite of what you're doing though...

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Pic #2 and 3 of my ARII 1/24 scale model car 

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