Clearance

[Jim Gathmann <jim_gathmann@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, it's 4" with my car all loaded up with the usual
junk I store in it.

With the car cleaned out and with my rear air
suspension system installed, should be more like 5"
which is pretty close to the OEM 7".....

I'm thinking of maybe bending my pipes which go under
the k-rails so that clearance stays good there- all of
the rest of the piping would be about the same
clearance as these krails.

The cats are an other story... guess I'll have to see
what kinda size they are when they arrive....

Skid plates are just heavy gauge steel sheets welded
on, no? Couldn't that then be done by some thick sheet
metal fabricating?

BTW- skid plates give me an idea... how about a false
floor? Like a skid plate, only it covers the entire
floor boards, exhaust system et al- thus protecting it
from rust, rocks, etc. Would add a bit of wieght....
not much though.....
--- Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Your local 4WD parts house should have some really
> nice skid plates that should help.  
> Make sure to have good entry speed going into steep
> driveways that flatten out abruptly and you should
> be fine.
>  
> ---
>  
> 4 inches clearance sounds wrong.   I had a buddy
> that had a lowered muscle car with a deep oil pan. 
> The state had done some asphalt grinding and had
> left a very sharp transition on an offramp.  As he
> went from graded to untouched pavement, there was a
> 2-3" abrupt rise, and he left the bottom of his oil
> pan at the edge.  The state shrugged its shoulders
> at him when he tried to make a claim.  
>  
> 4 inches is without any compression of your
> suspension?....  I'd try to tuck everything above
> the frame rails or whatever you have under there. 
> The engineers have to assume that someone will
> highside the car on something, and having junk
> hanging down is normally not done from the factory,
> I should think, so I'd continue to look for some
> sort of pacaging trickery to avoid having things
> dangling down there.
> 
> Impeiral Margarine has a crappy, low-hanging dual
> exhaust that some previous yo-yo put in there, and I
> always cringe when it manages to scritch on
> something, even with the relatively high stock
> clearance of the car.  I feel your pain.
>  
>  
> Keep looking.
>  
>  
>  
> -Kenyon
>  
> 
> Jim Gathmann <jim_gathmann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When does one know how much clearance is not enough
> clearance on a car without driving it over stuff and
> causing damage?
> 
> Here's my problem- my Dynasty has ~7" clearance
> normally- if measuring from the road up to the
> k-rails
> or the bottom of the OEM exhaust pipes. That 7"
> number
> is about 8.5" if going from the road to the floor
> boards or rockers.
> 
> With my new exhaust system, I have to have two cats-
> which won't fit in the exhaust "groove" in the floor
> boards- and my piping has to cross the k-rails.
> Naturally I can't cut into the krails for this, so
> now
> I'd have ~4" of clearance. Is this too little?
> 
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