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On the sock with sandals artisan-everything frumpy Portland, OR craigslist:
http://portland.craigslist.org/clc/cto/3169650217.html
I guess I don't understand lowering the chassis so low to the ground.
It looks nice - the paint and the well finished Virgo wheels. I'm heavily prejudiced in favor of any RWD Volvo; particularly the 242 and 164.
I'll guess the ride is for? Or, what is the ride like? Not much compliance, yes? Long distance runs up and down the I-5 or the Trans-Alaska highway? Or is a set up like this for drifting (and then hastening the rear axle and driveline destruction on ever fewer RWD Volvos on the planet)?
The ad provides no details as the as writer indicates too many mods to list.
I'd guess the critical suspension parts like (rear) panhard track rod, torque rods, and perhaps the trailing arms and the (front) strut assemblies are shortened/modded to accept the geometry of a severely lower unibody chassis?
Speed bumps at the grocer car park would be something you'd avoid as well as some poor curb cuts when entering and eggressing the street? What about driving on bad roads? Portland Mayor Sam Adams has vowed to not repair the Portland streets. (The Portland streets seem not that bad save for the rickety, old, and stupid I-5 lift bridge over the mighty Columbia allowing deep water port traffic.)
I guess I need to know what advantage there is to lowering it so much beyond the iPD or other springs that lower the chassis 1" to 2"? Reduced drag coefficient?
One of my 240 sedans sits on the wagon (not sedan) version TME/iPD springs from a decade ago. Raked from rear to front with maybe a 3/4+" drop rear and maybe 1+" drop front. I'll not ever lower another 240 or any car again. I recently installed a rear set of 1991 245 wagon springs on my 1992 240 sedan. Handling improved with a slight rise to the rear height, giving that car a slight rake. Both cars still tend towards understeer; less understeer so for the 1992 sedan.
Please wish me luck on another job winterview next week in frumpy socks with sandals Portland. The job is a thankfully gargantuan task of vast scope with a bazillion details, roles, processes, controls, and serving innumerable industries, states, and more. I'm ready to go. A little scared. All packed. Sorry to be such a bass-turd (a turd of bass.)
If I get the job, I'll buy everyone on brickboard two rounds of their fave refreshing beverage so long as we can meet at the McMennamins Fulton Pub on SW Nebraska in John's Landing of Portland, OR.
http://www.mcmenamins.com/258-fulton-pub-brewery-home
cheers,
Terminator Stout MacDuff.
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"Refreshing beverage." "Don't drink and drive."
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