Ganavas;7563 wroteWould anybody have any info in regards to lowering a 144, I find that lowering the back comes with issues from what people have told me ? can anyone explain.
Oh, that depends. What have people told you?
Have they told you that it isn't necessary to lower the car to significantly improve the handling? That the addition of a rear sway bar and some sensibly-rated springs and good shocks will transform the handling from crap to really good?
Ohhhhhh. Guess not.
Lowering the car doesn't do much in a practical sense, except let you bash the exhaust and tailshaft on speed humps and other ridiculous roadside furniture which local councils are obsessive about installing these days. If you want the car to handle well, you must spend a few dollars on good springs and good shocks. Only silly, ignorant children cut their springs and somehow think it looks better and improves the handling, when it does neither.
If you go stupid low on a 140, it stuffs up the torque rod and panhard rod geometry. You can also forget about using a single piece tailshaft, because it will bottom out on the transmission tunnel seam lip at the rearmost point of the transmission tunnel (guess how I know this...)
Remember the 240 rear suspension has another 2 inches of travel compared to a 140.
Also note that the standard 140 sedan rear spring rate is about 90 lb/ inch, which is very soft.
After enduring about 1,100 km in a 140 with cut springs, they are about to be removed, replaced with decent items no more than 1 inch lowered maximum, and then drop kicked from here in the Blue Mountains to Eastwood Oval, before I take that car on another long trip. I may do a group buy for 140 springs. But I also want to think about spring rates.
If you want off the shelf springs, King Springs do a lowered rear 140 spring, but I've never been keen on multi-rate springs.