You people are way off on this. What about when you are in reverse? The gas
mileage in reverse is inversely proportional to the angle of the dangle.
This makes it 12 times as bad as when the height was stock. This cancels any
gain. The only way to get better mileage both ways is to use sand bags.
Put them in the back for reverse and in the front valance for forward. I
can't believe you people don't know this. It's called Shelby's Theorum.
In a message dated 12/18/2009 3:55:44 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
djoh797014@yahoo.com writes:
Lowering the front while keeping the rear at the original height
is a great idea. It means you're always driving down hill.
Also great for locating speed bumps at night.
--- On Fri, 12/18/09, Cullen McCann <cmccann@lwpb.com> wrote:
From: Cullen McCann <cmccann@lwpb.com>
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Drop Spindles
To: "coolvt@aol.com" <coolvt@aol.com>, "tigers@autox.team.net"
<tigers@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, December 18, 2009, 5:09 PM
Continuing the theory of lowering the front end....what happens if it's
lowered and the rear remains at the original height?
HEHE...hey mark....well we will have to go back to the early 80's to see
that.
And also the rear tires would need to stick out of the fenders at least an
inch. I guess it should be assumed that the car should sit somewhat
level...but "traditionally" it's pretty simple to lower a leaf spring
setup...
I don't know how I feel about it yet on this car....I have a little Sunbeam
angel on my left shoulder and a little demon on my right...one encourages
me
to tweak on the car in such areas ( like every other car I ever own, I
enjoyed
it more when it was custom) or "cullen, leave this one alone, it deserves
to
remain unchanged....to honor its heritage...blah blah..." and all that.
I'm not trying to get back into that old discussion about modifying, but
this
entire thread on dropped spindles is considering a fairly substantial
change
in the look of the car....
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