Suspension Gallery! Show me your lowered MINI!
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A question for everyone: Has anyone cut the metal in the fender to prevent rubbing?How did you cut it? Any pictures of the finished product? Also, will more negative camber help prevent rubbing? Im pretty sure it does, but just making sure before I buy things to give me more camber.
#1431
Here is my car after driving a week to let the springs settle. TSW springs on OEM cooper S shocks. I cut a 1/4 coil off of the front springs, because the front looked higher than the rear (fender gap). Tires are 205/45R17. I am using the shorter bump stops from WMW, and the car rides nice, feels much better than the stock sport springs. To me the car does not look lowered, but looks like it should have from the factory. I saw the post of the white MINI with the swift springs, he looks lower than my setup. I have a set of NM's to compare, but I am done pulling shocks for a couple of months....
I think that this is a nice daily driver setup, and am quite happy.
Mike
I think that this is a nice daily driver setup, and am quite happy.
Mike
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The fronts are 16x9 the rears are 16x9.5 205/40/16 front and 215/40/16 rear the offset not sure these are weird wheels you can't mount them with out the adapters they come with so like when you order them they make the adapter to your liking it's pretty much the hub of the wheel
#1445
The fronts are 16x9 the rears are 16x9.5 205/40/16 front and 215/40/16 rear the offset not sure these are weird wheels you can't mount them with out the adapters they come with so like when you order them they make the adapter to your liking it's pretty much the hub of the wheel
#1446
Maybe this is the wrong place to ask so please forgive me, but with all the dropped/lowered/stanced and dare I even say sexy minis on this thread... how much scraping goes on when you drop your mini. I scrape enough at stock height.
Also. Would lowering my mini reduce normal wear and tear on my tires? Not really enjoying paying for run flats at the moment.
Also. Would lowering my mini reduce normal wear and tear on my tires? Not really enjoying paying for run flats at the moment.
#1447
You learn to drive differently. You take driveways at an angle and slow down at dips in the road. Same with speed bumps...you learn to go over them smoothly so you don't compress the suspension and bottom out. I try to avoid them as much as possible. My ride height is almost 2" lower than stock.
Lowering won't improve your tire wear. If you don't get them aligned you will have even worse tire wear.
Richard
Lowering won't improve your tire wear. If you don't get them aligned you will have even worse tire wear.
Richard
Maybe this is the wrong place to ask so please forgive me, but with all the dropped/lowered/stanced and dare I even say sexy minis on this thread... how much scraping goes on when you drop your mini. I scrape enough at stock height.
Also. Would lowering my mini reduce normal wear and tear on my tires? Not really enjoying paying for run flats at the moment.
Also. Would lowering my mini reduce normal wear and tear on my tires? Not really enjoying paying for run flats at the moment.
#1448
You learn to drive differently. You take driveways at an angle and slow down at dips in the road. Same with speed bumps...you learn to go over them smoothly so you don't compress the suspension and bottom out. I try to avoid them as much as possible. My ride height is almost 2" lower than stock.
Lowering won't improve your tire wear. If you don't get them aligned you will have even worse tire wear.
Richard
Lowering won't improve your tire wear. If you don't get them aligned you will have even worse tire wear.
Richard
#1449
MINIs don't need to be lowered to improve handling but they certainly look better standing still!
I scrape the bottom of my JCW aerokit bumper and sometimes my Magnaflow exhaust if backing down a steep driveway. Unless you dump it you risk damaging cosmetics only. I've ripped off the plastic trim on the bumper when it got caught on some broken concrete outside of a driveway but I snapped it back in place.
Richard
I scrape the bottom of my JCW aerokit bumper and sometimes my Magnaflow exhaust if backing down a steep driveway. Unless you dump it you risk damaging cosmetics only. I've ripped off the plastic trim on the bumper when it got caught on some broken concrete outside of a driveway but I snapped it back in place.
Richard