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I was driving last night around Henry Lawson Drive (Milperra, NSW). There was a VX Commie 8 that was full of gorgeous hunks of the male species (can't hurt to check it out, specially when by one's self) in front of me.
It was extremely low. Around one corner it bottomed out and hit a slight bump on the road. Huge blue sparks flew up. Now this is dangerous (sparks, leaky petrol, kaboooooom) ... so I'm asking, how low is legal?
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100mm from the lowest point of the car... Or old school way is if the car can drive over a coke can its legal
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Its the lowest point of the chassis to, exhaust doesnt count. Basically, put a coke can under the front splitter and/or where the jack goes....it should fit. There are also laws in some state regarding the hight of the headlights however this is less commonly worried about.
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Well maybe a coke can would've fit under the lowest point... but the bump was actually higher than a coke can!
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Bolt (loosly) a 100mm wheel to the end of a broom handle (I used a 100mm grinding disk) and sweep the entire lenth under the car. In Victoria it is measeure with full petrol tank and for general sized occupents.
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There's no such thing as too low. I've got superlows and I'm still not satisfied.
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most likely he had cut springs, or them "hunks" weighed a fair few kilo's lol
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Too true, I have superlows and will happily drop it another 1.5 inches.
One thing I have noticed driving in (And therefore getting pulled over in) friends Commodores, is that the rear can look -really- low and be legal, and Falcon's are generally illegal if the rear tyre is level with the wheel arch.
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When you can't turn the steering without rubbing.
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so aaron does that mean my car is illegal? because i was thinking of chopping more off.
ive got superlows all round with half a coil missing in the rear. the rear tyres are just even with the top of the guard. my mates vl is heaps low at the back but its still legal, it looks lower then my car but when you look underneath its still higher then mine, oh well im reasonably happy with the ride height because i seem to get compliments about it from a couple of people i know. in s.a the lowest point of the car has to be 100mm from the ground. my exhaust definantly aint and i doubt the chassis rails are either. Ehab |
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In QLd the zorst counts, I know a mate with an old 351 and the flanges on the headers made the car to low., he had to cut them off and rototate them to give him an extra 20mm or so
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MAybe the exhaust does count now, my knowledge of it is over a decade old now and at the time they were only interested in the chassis. Suspension and exhaust were not counted. My car was ok but if the exhaust was checked I would have been under.
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in vic.. its 100mm. exhaust and every thing counts.. However, it has to be measured 1m foward or rear of any axel... so those little hooks near the rear trailing arms dont count
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do you mean that the only place they can measure it is exactly 1m fore and aft of each axle? So there is only 4 potential points where they can measure the height? Or does it just mean that everything within that 1m each side of the axle is counted? |
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i was always under the impression the exhaust does count, simply thing to do is just keep it all above 100mm :P
i think mines too low, but meh, i don't even get a 2nd look at my car if it were upto me... the car would hardly be off the ground ![]()
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Well if the exhaust counts then mine is too low.
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I've got King's Low's and my exhaust (mid-muffler) scrapes all the time ...
![]() If the exhaust does count with the 100mm rule, can a standard exhaust sit any higher (particularly the mid section) or is there a better system thats a smaller profile and doesnt hang so darn low?
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THere is a fine line between a good exhaust that sits to close to the body without causing too much neat on the floorpan and one that is alittle out and hangs too low, If it is your mid muffler hitting chances are you have more clearance between the body and the muffler than you need
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i need to get my exhaust hooked up a bit higher to the body it tapps on the diff all the time and gets bloody annoying.
my car is fairly low....at the back anyway and i havent been pulled up for it yet. i seriously doubt a 10mm wheel would go under it. ive noticed commodores look lower than falcons of the same height, its wierd. |
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stupid high wheel arches on falcons :(
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the commos look lower cos of the wheel arches... but park an eseries next to a commo and compare the boot height (on similarly lowered cars) and the eseries will look way lower...
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In SA there is a book the police use, showing each type of car, and the legal height it can be, measured from the top of the wheel arch to the ground, although many older cars need the gap measured between bumpstops, which is a lot of effort so you have a bit of grace there.
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