Looking to drop audi a6 a couple of inches
12-04-2010, 05:19 AM
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A few facts to help you gauge.
1. the sport kit from the factory is -0.8" (20mm)
2. beyond about 1" camber becomes permanently negative. if you are racing this may be OK. For tire wear, less so.
3. Lowering has real benefits in weight transfer, but real draw-backs in geometry ( beyond a point) and in practicality.
4. as you go lower you may ( if its not coilovers) reduce travel. Consequently you must increase spring rate. Your call when this gets old on public roads on commutes.
I personally like about -1" and wide 8-8.5" 17" light rims.
In reality i have a bone stock S6.
And a track rat
G
1. the sport kit from the factory is -0.8" (20mm)
2. beyond about 1" camber becomes permanently negative. if you are racing this may be OK. For tire wear, less so.
3. Lowering has real benefits in weight transfer, but real draw-backs in geometry ( beyond a point) and in practicality.
4. as you go lower you may ( if its not coilovers) reduce travel. Consequently you must increase spring rate. Your call when this gets old on public roads on commutes.
I personally like about -1" and wide 8-8.5" 17" light rims.
In reality i have a bone stock S6.
And a track rat
G
12-04-2010, 05:09 PM
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A few facts to help you gauge.
1. the sport kit from the factory is -0.8" (20mm)
2. beyond about 1" camber becomes permanently negative. if you are racing this may be OK. For tire wear, less so.
3. Lowering has real benefits in weight transfer, but real draw-backs in geometry ( beyond a point) and in practicality.
4. as you go lower you may ( if its not coilovers) reduce travel. Consequently you must increase spring rate. Your call when this gets old on public roads on commutes.
I personally like about -1" and wide 8-8.5" 17" light rims.
In reality i have a bone stock S6.
And a track rat
G
1. the sport kit from the factory is -0.8" (20mm)
2. beyond about 1" camber becomes permanently negative. if you are racing this may be OK. For tire wear, less so.
3. Lowering has real benefits in weight transfer, but real draw-backs in geometry ( beyond a point) and in practicality.
4. as you go lower you may ( if its not coilovers) reduce travel. Consequently you must increase spring rate. Your call when this gets old on public roads on commutes.
I personally like about -1" and wide 8-8.5" 17" light rims.
In reality i have a bone stock S6.
And a track rat
G
12-05-2010, 12:23 PM
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12-07-2010, 10:41 AM
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stock suspension is a LOT floaty! Sport suspension is about right, trading off comfort for control and vica-versa (hey, its a sedan). Though on those rare occasions when i wish to really push my S6 ( i don't press too hard on the street, its neither safe nor socailly acceptable) i want even more control.
I simply cannot imagine banging this car off track curbing, which is second nature in my other car.
Now, beware what you wish for in a street car. You can make it very tight, but, frankly, miserable to live with an maybe having even LESS grip as it fails to maintain contact on washboard surfaces. As bernie will lecture you, critical damping returns the system to equilibrium the shortest possible amount of time. additional damping makes it WORSE, not better.
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I simply cannot imagine banging this car off track curbing, which is second nature in my other car.
Now, beware what you wish for in a street car. You can make it very tight, but, frankly, miserable to live with an maybe having even LESS grip as it fails to maintain contact on washboard surfaces. As bernie will lecture you, critical damping returns the system to equilibrium the shortest possible amount of time. additional damping makes it WORSE, not better.
G
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