Originally posted by Don Shillady
I often see lowered mini-trucks in my locality, including one which has the top cut off like a roadster, but how low is "low" on these setups in actual fact? I am worried because I have a dropped front axle with an actual clearance of only 4 1/2" to a level garage floor and that looks marginal if I hit a speed bump at an angle or a country road with a ridge in the middle. How low are you expecting your ride to be? As an "over-the-hill" rodder, I am curious what does the current teen age rodder consider "low"? Maybe production Corvettes are the lowest practical clearance at about 4", but some of these mini trucks look really low although I have not seen any making sparks. Maybe you also have to have a pretty firm suspension to avoid "bouncing too low"? Just chatting to try to understand the latest trends.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder
if you cant adj. it Don then like everything else in va. there is a bumper height law which is 14" off of the road. when you get right down to it you are not suppose to change the factory suspension. the man put the ruler on my s10 last week and it was right at 14", my windows was to dark, he didn't like my tail lights and the hood scope was to high. i was coming back from the doctors office that day and wont feeling all that good, so after listening to him about for about 15 mim, telling me what was wrong with my truck i finely got mad and told him that the truck wasn't on top of my worry list that day so either give me a ticket or let me go and he said, i can see you're having a bad day and let me go. so all of them are not bad.