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182 with cup packs lowering



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abp motorsport

We fitted eibach pro-kit which should have been -30mm. The front came
down nice but the back looked fairly standard and when your lowering the
car, you want it to look lower dont you.

The Pi springs that we fitted were a set that we used to have made for the 172 which brought them down -60m front and rear! Used to look ace
on those and the customers loved them.

We dont supply apex and I have not seen a car on those springs.

Has anyone tried spax or gmax?

Thanks for your help,

Dave Roberts
www.abpmotorsport.co.uk
dave@abpmotorsport.co.uk
01270 567177
 
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azzer2000

  Focus RS, 182 gone
abp motorsport said:
We fitted eibach pro-kit which should have been -30mm. The front came
down nice but the back looked fairly standard and when your lowering the
car, you want it to look lower dont you.

The Pi springs that we fitted were a set that we used to have made for the 172 which brought them down -60m front and rear! Used to look ace
on those and the customers loved them.

We dont supply apex and I have not seen a car on those springs.

Has anyone tried spax or gmax?

Thanks for your help,

Dave Roberts
www.abpmotorsport.co.uk
dave@abpmotorsport.co.uk
01270 567177
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What did the 182's rear look like with those pi spring? I think part of the reason no company does a really low spring for the 182 is that, i would fail an mot, because when you jack the car up, aparently, the rear springs would fall out. Or so i was told.
 
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Fred@BTM

  Lionel Richie
abp motorsport said:
We fitted eibach pro-kit which should have been -30mm. The front came
down nice but the back looked fairly standard and when your lowering the
car, you want it to look lower dont you.

The Pi springs that we fitted were a set that we used to have made for the 172 which brought them down -60m front and rear! Used to look ace
on those and the customers loved them.

We dont supply apex and I have not seen a car on those springs.

Has anyone tried spax or gmax?

Thanks for your help,

Dave Roberts
www.abpmotorsport.co.uk
dave@abpmotorsport.co.uk
01270 567177
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Dave Eibach Pro = 10mm drop

Spax = crap
Gmax = crapper

stick to the german TUV stuff
 
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veloce

there's a lot of talk of big drops on the front - all that is going to to is generate is more understeer - looks cool but handling suffers!
 
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abp motorsport

Yeah they sit lower at the front standard dont they so the back does
need to come down a little bit more than the front to level the car.

With the understeer you can get round alot of that by introducing a little
bit more negative camber with a set of camber adjusters.

Sadly the rear is not adjustable so we cant do anything with that.
making the rear feel better but thats a bigger job.

Regards,

Dave Roberts
www.abpmotorsport.co.uk
dave@abpmotorsport.co.uk
01270 567177
 
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azzer2000

  Focus RS, 182 gone
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Got this off a guy on here, too dark to take a pic of mine, but its exactly the same -40mm Apex
 
Gaz_

Gaz_

ClioSport Club Member
  Extreme mode
thing is when droped, the clios shouldnt be level. They are dropped more at the front than the rear as standard. I beleive when setup like this they aid turn in
 
V

veloce

gt_gaz said:
thing is when droped, the clios shouldnt be level. They are dropped more at the front than the rear as standard. I beleive when setup like this they aid turn in
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they shouldn't be level. you need rake to prevent lift (aerodynamic). If you lower any MacStrut car so the wishbone points up at the outboard end then the roll centre goes below ground. This generates massive weight transfer at the front end, understeer and if you go fast enough weight jacking where the car "falls over" onto the front outside wheel. In the old days cars could withstand a lot more lowering nowadays most will not accept much. Eibach are one of the only spring makers (with the prokit anyway - not sportline) that consider this fact.
I was followed the other day by some chap in a mk3 golf gti that was "slammed", I was in the mother in laws 206 1.4 (bog std). Anyway trailbraked into a roundabout and glided through with ease. All I then heard behind me was a mass of squealing tyres and a car that had understeered so badly he was on the other side of the road ! He was laughing though!
 
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abp motorsport

I suppose the only other option to get the height right on the front is a
set of coil-overs. The only problem then is getting the rear right with the
right set of springs.

I have just started to supply H&R coilovers which lower the front 30-70mm
and the rear is on an adjustable platform which lower:20-50mm.

This kit is specifically made for the 182 models and is not a general kit for
all the clio sport models like some others.

The kit is £859.00 supplied and £998.00 fitted including setting the front
alignment and camber if camber adjuster bolts are fitted(which we can
supply too.

Regards,

Dave Roberts
www.abpmotorsport.co.uk
dave@abpmotorsport.co.uk
01270 567177
 
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