As I mentioned in Pete’s post i’ve just ordered some new Nitron shocks, car mostly used on track but I live in Jersey and the car has to go on and off the ferry all the time and we’ve a silly number of speed bumps on our 9x5 mile island. Whats’ the lowest anyone is running their car without any problems with speed bumps etc? I’m measuring the ride heights as follows, immediately behind the front wheels, between the chassis and the floor. Rears just before the rear wheels.
Cheers
Speed humps are not the problem, it the incline in for example multi-storey car parks. I imagine the ferry may have the same problem
When I had my vx220, I ran the ride height at 115/125 before corner weighting. Although this was low, it was manageable with the occasional scrape. However, the exige is has a low front splitter that catches on everything!! I would probably try 120/125 or 125/130 and see how you get on.
I run 115/125 and its fine, ran 105/115 previously which made the car super stable at speed and on track but rubbed too much on the wheel arch liners.
Was thinking around 125/130 and yeah you’re right about the car parks. Scrapes as it is on occasion. I like the splitter i think it makes the Exige look more aggressive than the Elise but it’s probably easy to get an Elise lower and still useable everyday if required.
I run my car at 110/120 which gives 105mm at the splitter, that should always get you over speed bumps as the legal height limit is 100mm, as fo dips in the road and exiting petrol stations I just choose not to look at the underneath of the splitter and corners of the front of the clam shell
I’d really like to run it at 110/120 but the people who help put the cars on the ferry can be really annoying, they already get pissed off because they’ve to get their ramps out.
Oh and meant to say my car currently runs completely standard height and both liners are worn already so not sure it makes much odds anyway.