Ride height

[PaulRotheram]

Just looking for some information on ride height. My base set up I run wishbones level, with a slight increase on the front which works out roughly 21mm front, 20mm rear.

Browsing through various setups, mainly from drivers down south - they all seem to have very low ride heights! How is this being done? I can scrape 19mm however the shock collars are unwound to the most itl go.

A few examples;
Kev Lee, 19mm all round - something I can achieve.
Elliot Boots 18mm all round
Tony Evdoka 18mm - 19mm rear
Kev Lee 16mm all round - I cant get anywhere near this.

I do notice that drivers are using the medium shock eyelet on the rear, but when applying this, I notice a few things.

Firstly droop is vastly reduced, as standard with the long eyelet rear traction can be a struggle at times, so when running the medium eyelet rear end grip is further reduced.

With the medium eyelet attached, to get 17/18mm ride height the shock collar is wound down quite a lot and giving a lot of spring pre load. This seems to give the shock a stiffer feel and looses the progressiveness.

Now, am I missing a trick here, or is this something only a few drivers are doing?

[bigt]

Are you on kit arms ? I ran 16mm at Silverstone last time no probs rudebits shorty trey with an ounce beneath it orange fr red r springs collars are about 5mm from top medium eyelets fs arms

[PaulRotheram]

Kit rear arms yes - do the flat wishbones make that much of a difference? I've not needed to swap over as of yet as ive had a rear roll bar fitted to avoid the rear end collapse issue.

[danmurphy]

The rb5 arms raise the lower shock mounting point which is why you need to use shorter eyelets to achieve the same amount of droop.

[bigred5765]

also try losi spring paul there shorter length we run small eyelets front and rear and just unscrew to get droop needed

[PaulRotheram]

Cheers Dan, I've ordered some - thank you for the part number again. Car is still going really well, just trying a few different things and this was one of them!

Always ran losi springs Carl, not paying the price tag for the K springs.

[Gavin Collingwood]

You gotta run the rb5 arms pal. Much better