Re: Drag car height
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10/10/23 09:14 AM
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If the trans pan is below your headers I think that is an issue. The headers are the lowest point on my car. I run a moroso aluminum trans pan and it is not the lowest point under my car. It allows me to hold about 8-9 qts of trans fluid and that seems to be plenty for my application.
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Re: Drag car height
[Re: Dragula]
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10/10/23 11:40 AM
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Lowest point are my custom headers, sitting at exactly 2 inches. That’s with an aluminum deep dish pan on a 727.
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Re: Drag car height
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10/10/23 12:04 PM
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I run a cast deep pan on a turbo 400, what helped a lot was to mill the cooling ribs off it. Right now i have about 3.5" to the trans pan, but the rear of my oil pan is 2.75" . But im not driving anywhere except in the trailer and to the lanes at the track.
You still have stock suspension up front? you can put a fairly tall aftermarket urethane snubber in the lower arm. Trim it that it only has 1/4 to an 1/8 clearance at rest, this way you know the car wont "bottom out" and your limiting the down travel in the front suspension.
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Re: Drag car height
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10/10/23 02:51 PM
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My car sits as low as I can get it with a stock driveshaft tunnel, and front frame rails. The lower control arms are almost touching the bump stops that have been cut down a inch. My scattershield is one of the lowest parts of the car, other than the headers, and 4 link crossmember.
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Re: Drag car height
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10/10/23 09:27 PM
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Mine sits low and my deep trans pan as low as my headers also. However it is still several inches from the ground. If you want to increase your ground clearance just put a standard pan back on it and run a large cooler.
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