Re: lowering yer Jav
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Re: lowering yer Jav



That's a good 3" drop! 1/8" plate with the vertical edges bent with a 1" lip should be okay for a light car, but pushing it for something driven hard in curves. You had no overlap, so didn't need to thread anything like those guys. 

On August 3, 2005 mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Neil; what Armand meant with the steel plate, I think,
> is what I did several years ago. You make a plate (I
> used 1/8" cold steel plate) and drill the four
> mounting holes. Now lower the top two holes to the
> bottom position and you are in affect making a plate
> with six holes. You can then bolt the things together.
> Be sure to gusset the whole thing and use grade 8
> bolts. I didn't notice any unusual effects but I
> wasn't running it hard, either.
> I did this on my Gremlin and ran for a year that way,
> then got the bug and dropped in a 390, narrowed
> Econoline front axle, homemade tubs from pickup
> fenders, yadda, yadda.....Russ
> 
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