how do you gauge low?

[e36rjbmw]

I judge low by counting the amount of times I hit the oil pan or the control arm mounts on the way to the store and back. Twenty or more times and it's low...

somedays I'm lower than others.

I like your style

[akoehler]

I'm gonna have to agree with Mike and say oil pans. Even if your frame rails are three feet in the air, if you're bottomed out on an oil pan there isn't anything you can really do about that! I might not look that low but I just popped my third oil pan over Thanksgiving break and the fourth over Christmas break, through a skid plate every time.. and I don't even have my car with me at school

[patra_is_here]

I'm gonna have to agree with Mike and say oil pans. Even if your frame rails are three feet in the air, if you're bottomed out on an oil pan there isn't anything you can really do about that! I might not look that low but I just popped my third oil pan over Thanksgiving break and the fourth over Christmas break, through a skid plate every time.. and I don't even have my car with me at school

psh! dude, notch the side where the axles and tie rods go through, raise the motormounts up 2 inches, clearance the hood and get some roll-center adapters, flip the tie rod ends and you'll be fine.

and you thought you were stuck scraping oil pans. no sir. no.

[SeanDub]

Not in much of a position to be dishing out advice on how to get low, since your car isn't...

You vs. Akoehler (who you are telling to go lower...





Just sayin.

[hinrichs]

this was my jetta on bags....subframe on the ground and i still had an inch to my pan..i had a 1.8t and nothing on mouts were touched or anything changed

[lscfn10]

You cant express or judge low. You just know low when you see it. Some try to fake their way through, and some take it to extremes, but when you see it, you know its there.

This.

There is no determined point. Yea, amongst same model cars you can have a way to comparatively measure. But ground to fender, oil pan, subframe, etc. its all different on every model. Comparing two completely different cars is useless. If its low, its low.

[Kielan]

How amazingly uncomfortable the ride is.. Really frame rails and wheel gap (with reasonably sized wheels).

[Royal_T]

You really can't judge low with oil pan with newer model cars. Reason being is that our oil pans sit above our frame, so we lay frame before we will ever hit oil pan..

Also you know low when you see it

[l!zerd]

x2, edafe.

my pan sits a couple inches higher than my frame too

im only tucking about half of my tire all around and i got about 2 to 3 inches of clearance from my frame to the ground. if i were to tuck the entire tire, id be fken like below the pavement.
with edafe's z tho, he was tucking all or most of his tire, on coilovers and he still had clearance.
it really depends on the car. u cant set a scale for whats considered low and what isnt. each car is different. you just know its low when u see it.

[Komeuppance]

Yeah, you can't really compare different car models to each other. Apples to Oranges. I like to gauge lowness by the lack of fender to tire gap. Bonus points for amount of scrapes per day x length of sparks thrown out.

-Robert

[Checho]

Yeah, you can't really compare different car models to each other. Apples to Oranges. I like to gauge lowness by the lack of fender to tire gap. Bonus points for amount of scrapes per day x length of sparks thrown out.

-Robert

qft!!!

[vdubkid]

Usually by wheel to fender gap. For example, I have to take speed bumps at angles or I scrape. But I'd never call myself low because there's still too much wheel gap