Magnum Force 2" Drop Spindle

Kern Dog said

The problem that I see is that in some cases, additional suspension travel could mean that vital underbody parts will now get closer to the pavement as the suspension compresses.
Not good.
Imagine even with a stock oil pan...when you are running down a poorly maintained road, suspension going up and down. If you hit the brakes JUST as the suspension compresses, the K member hits the ground, the exhaust, the tires hit the fenders, etc.

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That’s exactly what I was talking about with the tire to inner fender clearance. That’s the first thing that comes up, and that clearance becomes a problem not too far past the 2” drop mark. So even if you just use the full 2” drop from the drop spindles and run a 26” tire you end up close to bottoming the inner fenders against the tires.

You can run shorter tires, but then you trade the inner fender clearance for ground clearance issues.

So the idea that you can lower the car with the drop spindles and keep all the suspension travel doesn’t work. You still can’t necessarily use all of the suspension travel you have without bottoming out other stuff.

Hemidenny and I talked about this, what we really need to lower these cars as much as possible and have them handle well and use more reasonably sized torsion bars is a 1” drop spindle. You get some travel back, you still lower the car with the adjusters some so the geometry is better, and you could run a 1.03” bar and lower the max amount instead of say the 1.12’s I have.