Need help with raising ride height...
10-02-2006, 09:59 PM
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Need help with raising ride height... Ok, this is going to seem weird. I'm moving to Florida and I want to put my WS6 on the Amtrak Auto train. The problem is that they need 4" of clearance and I have only 3". I have the MAC springs in my car right now and 275/40/17 tires. I was thinking of using my drag radials (255/50/16 BFG's on 16" wheels) to put on the front to try to raise the car temporarlily to put in on the train. Is there a way I can put a block of wood or something under a control arm or something just to get the car on. Thanks in advance I know it's a weird question.
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http://www.partsamerica.com/ProductL...?Category=3197
scroll down about 1/4 of the way.. there are various coil spring lifters that you can install inbetween a couple coils of the springs to lift the car up temporarly. you have to jack the car up and unload the spring install the lifter. then drop it down and repeat on another corner.
scroll down about 1/4 of the way.. there are various coil spring lifters that you can install inbetween a couple coils of the springs to lift the car up temporarly. you have to jack the car up and unload the spring install the lifter. then drop it down and repeat on another corner.
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Mike,
Maybe take a look at these aluminum 1/2" inch spacers from BMR Fabrication for the front struts. Not the red things! They install at the bottom of the strut and you could stack 2 or more to get what you need temporarily. Twist in spring spacers would be that fastest and cheapest for sure. I did put them in my very first car some decades ago and noticed the springs bent in the areas where they made contact. But keep in mind I was 17 and hammered on that old Galaxy 500 for 30,000 miles, buckets of people in the car, and feared no launchable hill!
For the rear you could use these from Budzter
Maybe take a look at these aluminum 1/2" inch spacers from BMR Fabrication for the front struts. Not the red things! They install at the bottom of the strut and you could stack 2 or more to get what you need temporarily. Twist in spring spacers would be that fastest and cheapest for sure. I did put them in my very first car some decades ago and noticed the springs bent in the areas where they made contact. But keep in mind I was 17 and hammered on that old Galaxy 500 for 30,000 miles, buckets of people in the car, and feared no launchable hill!
For the rear you could use these from Budzter
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Originally Posted by Mike98WS6
Ok, this is going to seem weird. I'm moving to Florida and I want to put my WS6 on the Amtrak Auto train. The problem is that they need 4" of clearance and I have only 3". I have the MAC springs in my car right now and 275/40/17 tires. I was thinking of using my drag radials (255/50/16 BFG's on 16" wheels) to put on the front to try to raise the car temporarlily to put in on the train. Is there a way I can put a block of wood or something under a control arm or something just to get the car on. Thanks in advance I know it's a weird question.
up my El Camino beater I found 2x4 chunks wedged in
between rear spring coils (apparently the flame-cut quarters
alone, were not enough to clear the monster mags in back).
Whether it's a -good- idea, now....
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10-15-2006, 08:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Mark A. Rogalski
Mike,
Maybe take a look at these aluminum 1/2" inch spacers from BMR Fabrication for the front struts. Not the red things! They install at the bottom of the strut and you could stack 2 or more to get what you need temporarily. Twist in spring spacers would be that fastest and cheapest for sure. I did put them in my very first car some decades ago and noticed the springs bent in the areas where they made contact. But keep in mind I was 17 and hammered on that old Galaxy 500 for 30,000 miles, buckets of people in the car, and feared no launchable hill!
For the rear you could use these from Budzter
Maybe take a look at these aluminum 1/2" inch spacers from BMR Fabrication for the front struts. Not the red things! They install at the bottom of the strut and you could stack 2 or more to get what you need temporarily. Twist in spring spacers would be that fastest and cheapest for sure. I did put them in my very first car some decades ago and noticed the springs bent in the areas where they made contact. But keep in mind I was 17 and hammered on that old Galaxy 500 for 30,000 miles, buckets of people in the car, and feared no launchable hill!
For the rear you could use these from Budzter
