Sloping drive, low car -help please
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Some help please.
I'm seriously contemplating changing from my Evora to an Exige.
My Evora, when level, has 142mm of ground clearance. Coming out of the garage up the drive clearance drops to 57mm. So I have lost 85mm of clearance.
When I measured the height of the splitter on the Exige I measured 110mm to the carbon and 80mm to the base of the rubber strip that's bonded to the splitter.
So unless I have messed this up, my calculation would be 80mm minus 85mm of lost clearance = (-5mm into the ground)
I'm hoping that 5mm will not be an issue, but differences in tyres, wheelbase etc you never know. The dealer is bringing the car over this week to see how we get on.
I've been looking at race ramps to see how I could get the car in the garage just in case.
Based on my wonderful diagram, how would you solution this?
I'm seriously contemplating changing from my Evora to an Exige.
My Evora, when level, has 142mm of ground clearance. Coming out of the garage up the drive clearance drops to 57mm. So I have lost 85mm of clearance.
When I measured the height of the splitter on the Exige I measured 110mm to the carbon and 80mm to the base of the rubber strip that's bonded to the splitter.
So unless I have messed this up, my calculation would be 80mm minus 85mm of lost clearance = (-5mm into the ground)
I'm hoping that 5mm will not be an issue, but differences in tyres, wheelbase etc you never know. The dealer is bringing the car over this week to see how we get on.
I've been looking at race ramps to see how I could get the car in the garage just in case.
Based on my wonderful diagram, how would you solution this?
ziggy328 said:
Some help please.
I'm seriously contemplating changing from my Evora to an Exige.
My Evora, when level, has 142mm of ground clearance. Coming out of the garage up the drive clearance drops to 57mm. So I have lost 85mm of clearance.
When I measured the height of the splitter on the Exige I measured 110mm to the carbon and 80mm to the base of the rubber strip that's bonded to the splitter.
So unless I have messed this up, my calculation would be 80mm minus 85mm of lost clearance = (-5mm into the ground)
I'm hoping that 5mm will not be an issue, but differences in tyres, wheelbase etc you never know. The dealer is bringing the car over this week to see how we get on.
I've been looking at race ramps to see how I could get the car in the garage just in case.
Based on my wonderful diagram, how would you solution this?
If you Google "Lotus Exige approach angle" it should take you to some discussions and solutions. I'm seriously contemplating changing from my Evora to an Exige.
My Evora, when level, has 142mm of ground clearance. Coming out of the garage up the drive clearance drops to 57mm. So I have lost 85mm of clearance.
When I measured the height of the splitter on the Exige I measured 110mm to the carbon and 80mm to the base of the rubber strip that's bonded to the splitter.
So unless I have messed this up, my calculation would be 80mm minus 85mm of lost clearance = (-5mm into the ground)
I'm hoping that 5mm will not be an issue, but differences in tyres, wheelbase etc you never know. The dealer is bringing the car over this week to see how we get on.
I've been looking at race ramps to see how I could get the car in the garage just in case.
Based on my wonderful diagram, how would you solution this?
https://www.lotustalk.com/threads/angle-of-approac...
Edited by skyebear on Monday 8th July 23:33
ziggy328 said:
Thank you kanbites. So the overhang reduction is enough to negate the 63mm in ride height to the rubber?
I don't know but if you calculated that it would foul by 5mm if it was the same length as the Evora, then if the Exige has a 20% shorter overhang, it's going to have 20% more clearance than you calculated.Also worth noting that the whole point of that rubber trim is to hit things, and it WILL hit things like sped bumps anyway (my Elise does and I'm running more clearance than you state to the carbon, let alone the rubber).
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