Originally Posted by
Bernard_Jr
How do you guys measure droop? I've always been an offroad guy and there's a couple ways I'd normally consider but not sure with something that has such limited suspension travel.
Also, is there a good starting point for carpet?
There are probably a few ways, but the way I've seen it done and do it myself:
* Set your ride height on the setup board
* Put the chassis up on droop blocks
* Use a droop gauge to measure the distance to a specific point on the arms, usually it' somewhere around the outer pin. Use the same measurement for both front arms, and same for both rear arms
* Set the car down on your setup board again. Make sure your ride height is still as you set it. Then lift the front of the car up with the tip of your hex driver or something similar, until the wheels just barely lift off. Slip the ride height gauge under the the front and see what it measures now. Take the difference of the two ride heights and that is your droop.
* Figure out what setting you need on the droop gauge to get the droop you want. Once you figure that out, you can just use the droop gauge and not have to worry about doing the math after.
Hope that made sense, and hope I'm not doing it completely wrong
