Date:         Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:43:06 -0800
Reply-To:     fortinoj@SPEAKEASY.NET
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Joseph Fortino <fortinoj@SPEAKEASY.NET>
Subject:      Re: Lowering an 85'
Comments: To: David Brodbeck <gull@GULL.US>
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I drag nothing even if i punch a corner hard and
make my cheepy tires flex. ohh i have a DIP near my
house and just roll slow not full speed like i see some
do. but then again i have the spair up front.

hey my wife drives it daily, sport low is good.

Joe

On 13 Mar 2003, David Brodbeck wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Dustin Fitch wrote:
>
> > If you do find some springs that would lower
> > that baby though, I think you would just
> > have to be that much more careful about
> > where you went in 'er and how you drove
> > 'er.....that motor sits fairly low as it is,
> > exhaust included.
>
> I'm sorry, but a stock Vanagon is *not* a
> dangerously low-slung vehicle! :) Compare the
> ground clearance under it to the clearance
> under a stock Honda Civic, some time. About
> the only clearance issue with Vanagons is the
> long front overhang. You might have approach
> angle problems with steep driveway entrances
> if you really lowered it radically.
>
> Of course, if you've done a Subaru conversion
> it might be different. That oil pan really
> looks exposed hanging down there.
>
>
> David Brodbeck, N8SRE '82 Diesel Westfalia '94
> Honda Civic Si