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Old 06-23-2008, 02:21 PM
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Is there any way to tell how much lower my car is than stock? I talked to the previous owner and he said he can't remember which springs he used. I'm trying to get it a little higher in the back to try to restore the geometry in the back for my control arms and to fit the larger drag radials. I was hoping maybe somebody would know the stock height of the wheel well in the back or anything like that.
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Old 06-23-2008, 04:27 PM
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I'm not at home right now but will be back there Monday next week. If it's a fox body I can measure hub center to wheel welland get back to you, mine is still stock.

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Old 06-23-2008, 04:30 PM
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Gracias, but any body with a stock fox home now?
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Old 06-23-2008, 05:26 PM
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sry i dont have stock anything on my fox, but i was gonna say if you wanted to raise the back end back up, you could look into these. i have them on the back of my fox, i put on the drag springs and jacked up the back to clear mt 275 drag radials
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Old 06-23-2008, 05:28 PM
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crawl under the rear and look at the springs and see if you can tell
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Old 06-23-2008, 05:58 PM
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I don't have me jack right now and there is no way to fit under the car.[&:]
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Old 06-23-2008, 07:57 PM
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Go measure and tell us what yours is. I asked a similar question awhile back and someone told be stock is like 27 inches from ground to well or something close to that. I will see if I can find the thread. I would give you mine but its on stands right now.
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Old 06-23-2008, 08:05 PM
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Here was my thread.

https://mustangforums.com/m_5074169/tm.htm
Toward the bottom someone gave me the stock specs I believe.
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Sweet, thanks. Tommorow I'll get the height of mine and start looking for some springs.
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Old 06-24-2008, 09:46 AM
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Alright, well the top of the well measures 26 3/8ths, but this is with the 245/45R17 tire. The tire size is equilvalent to 25.7 inches and the stock tires are a half inch smaller so basically I have about a 1.25 inch drop. The only way I can see that I couyld get better geometry for my LCAs would be to get some stock springs or ones with like a .25-.5 inch drop.
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