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just looking at your front suspension picture, you could swap out the stock top hat for the strut assembly for a custom one that would possibly give a little more height out of the spring, but definitely allow for more travel.


I'm guessing all you would gain would be up travel, putting your driveline at risk from damage. Down travel is limited by our old bogey, the "saddle" to axle clearance at full droop.

The overall trick with the suspension is not overall height at either end, but matched "spring rates" so that the front runs out of travel as the rear does (compression and droop), irrespective of how much absolute travel that is. This keeps the CoG as close to central as possible, minimizing "lurching" (sudden shifts in CoG) at the ends of the suspension travel.

2002 Sporty , Ironman 2.5" spring, 2" body, 15 x 7 ROH wheels, K&N, 15 x 10.5 Simex Centipedes, Powerchip 91.

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