I've had a couple of emails asking how I got on with lowering my Fury. I thought I'd post a copy of an email I sent today in case anyone else was thinking of dropping their Mopar:
"With regard to lowering my Fury, I found it was possible to wind down the torsion bar bolts to get a 3 inch drop and still clear the factory bump stops. By removing material from the stock bump stops, I was able to go 4 1/2 to 5 inches drop. This seemed to be about the limit without encountering clearance, geometry and scrub line problems.
The rear was dropped 2 inches and gives a pleasing bracket car rake to the Plymouth. A corresponding 4 inch drop looks possible without running into prop clearance and geometry headaches. If you go for a 4 inch lowering block at the rear you'll need some tapered blocks/shims to claw back about 2 degrees of pinion angle -unless you want to change U/J's every couple of weeks.
Having had a chance to put some miles on my Fury now, I feel that a 4 inch drop at the front and a 2 inch at the rear works very well indeed. The car rode and drove extremely well with no nasty crashes over bumps(which was especially good news considering the car now rolls on 40 series 20's) and no geometry surprises. The car actually goes pretty well round corners quite well -even in the wet."
"With regard to lowering my Fury, I found it was possible to wind down the torsion bar bolts to get a 3 inch drop and still clear the factory bump stops. By removing material from the stock bump stops, I was able to go 4 1/2 to 5 inches drop. This seemed to be about the limit without encountering clearance, geometry and scrub line problems.
The rear was dropped 2 inches and gives a pleasing bracket car rake to the Plymouth. A corresponding 4 inch drop looks possible without running into prop clearance and geometry headaches. If you go for a 4 inch lowering block at the rear you'll need some tapered blocks/shims to claw back about 2 degrees of pinion angle -unless you want to change U/J's every couple of weeks.
Having had a chance to put some miles on my Fury now, I feel that a 4 inch drop at the front and a 2 inch at the rear works very well indeed. The car rode and drove extremely well with no nasty crashes over bumps(which was especially good news considering the car now rolls on 40 series 20's) and no geometry surprises. The car actually goes pretty well round corners quite well -even in the wet."
