Suspension Brakes Most liked posts in thread: Lowered my car half a foot.

Yup, Air. No jumping though....that's usually more common with hydraulics rather than air.

I'm assuming that means you're referring to lowriders or do you get a bunch of mini truckers out there? I'm not nearly as low as them:lol: but i do love the lowrider and mini truck cultures/communities. This height is more in line with the ride heights found in the euro and JDM scenes right now. You just don't see it very often in the more conservative MINI community.

Yah, handling's not really my thing.

Thankfully we were blessed with multi-link rear suspension and I've got a non-static ride height. Pop the switch and the rear camber is nowhere near as aggressive. The car had no problem running the dragon with all the coilover'd cars, but it won't be setting any track records any time soon:lol:

 

Rear struts are shortened a few inches, but the great thing is that they still have 3.7" of stroke :cornut:

Up front, I had some custom upper plates machined to cut down on the overall stack height from the original bushing/bearing/plate combo. The spherical bearing is relocated up above the plate and the bag mounts directly to the plate. Then the perch is on a thrust bearing so the bag can stay in that position while the strut turns. Overall it cut down the stack height by 1.7" which allowed me to keep a reasonable amount of travel up front and drop it all the way down.

There's actually a bunch of room to go lower up front, I just need to do a little work. The struts still have 2 or 3 inches of thread left :idea: The rears would go down another inch if I just removed the upper control arm bumpstops(which are bottomed out on the body) , but I don't want to lower the rear more until I know I can get the front down.

 

Hahahah awesome.

Oh, there's room to go lower. I just want to tuck the fronts a little more. I'm flipping the bags over and running the airlines through the engine bay. That will allow me to spin the perches down flush with the tire shoulders without any issues.

Curse the MINI designers for making the front arches so much larger than the rears :devil:

I haven't tried to park in grass, but I know that if I leave the rears up and lower the front first, it smashes the front lip on the ground:lol:

Thanks for the offer, but the camber is entirely intentional . I know about the options for alignment adjustment, but the camber is such that it allows the perfect flush stance with my current wheels. Adjusting the camber so that it's less negative will result in more rubbing and a weaker stance. If anything, I'll be installing some new control arms to add a little more negative camber if/when I move to wider lips so I can tuck the 9's or 9.5's.

 

Close ...I'm up in northern Ohio:lol: Unfortunately we suffer from the same salt cratered roads. :sad:

 

I'm not familiar with lincoln's so I'm not sure. It's used on things like Touraegs, and some of the Mercedes sedans. I'd imagine that you're probably thinking of the same thing.

It's basically spring rate and ride height adjustments at the flick of a switch. I can set it soft and low for comfortable highway cruising, or stiff for twisties, or high for potholes/driveways....then put the car on the ground when it's time to park