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Alfa stance?
Hey there everyone - just picked up the 115 after her Alfaholics steering, suspension and brake re-fresh by Turn3 Automotive here in BC. She's driving much much better but I have a question about the stance.
Is this normal to have the front end sitting higher than the rear?
Thanks in advance.
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Is this normal to have the front end sitting higher than the rear?
Thanks in advance.
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Yes, it is normal. Note that there will be some variability from car to car in how it sits. For instance, my car has the US air conditioning system with the battery in the trunk, and I found the newly installed Alfaholics suspension to sit a little low in the back. We also do multi-day tours and travel with luggage so wanted a little more rear ride height. After a small AH shim under the rear springs, I am happy with the result.
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Eibach set with 21.5mm shims on rear 7mm on RF and 3mm on LF.
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My 1971 GTV has the Ward and Dean suspension from the late1980’s. It sits a bit lower in the front. These photos don’t really show the front end lower by about a 1/2”
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Looks pretty close to me...but don't forget that your car is a "high" arch model, and many of the cars you're seeing are "low arch" models (pre-67? someone help me out here). As previously pointed out...the rocker panel is most likely level to the ground, which is what you want. The profile of these cars makes the nose look high when in fact it's really not.
-tj
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-tj
No, the front end shouldn't sit higher than the rear and yours isn't, it just looks like it is because of the shape of the wheel arches.
The front arch has a radius (round shaped) but the rear one is flattened. This makes it look like the car is sitting down at the rear because you're seeing more air between the tyre and arch at the front than the rear. To check the ride height, either measure the bottom edge of the door to the ground at the front and rear, they should be the same height. Either that or you can draw lines on the photo of the car to check that they're parallel. Here's yours, looks perfect to me-
What you really need to avoid is trying to equalise those arch gaps, then it all goes wrong-
That's interesting. I always thought that it was bumper or headlight height related (regulations) because they also raised the rear. British Leyland had to do the same with the MGB too, the later rubber bumper cars look like they're on stilts compared to the earlier cars.
Here's a US car, you can see that they raised the rear as well, in fact, if anything this one looks TALLER at the rear than the front.
See also the Lancia Beta Montecarlo (Scorpion in the US) which had to have pop-up headlights to meet the US headlight height regulations. Us Yurrupeans didn't have pop-ups, we got the much nicer looking fixed lights. So yeah, headlight height was definitely a "thing" in the US in the mid to late 70s.
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