Hi-lo springs set up
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Running with coil springs and lowering the car is an iffy business as far as I'm concerned. You are negating most of the benefits of the coils, and introducing a decent risk of snapping a spring.
I wind my hi-los up until I have a smidge of pre-load on the front springs, and then adjust the rideheight to level the car. The rideheight is sensible without looking like it's teetering on stilts, but at the same time it is impossible for the spring to move of the seat and get smashed. I do similar at the rear, but with the dampers installed as they are the effective droop stop.
By running a sensible ridehight you allow the coil to work its ride magic - absorbing the jiggling you get with cones, and supplying a supple ride. If slammed performance is your goal, stick to cones.
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When working on Mini suspension and i want it to stay in its normal position (usually when undoing the top ball joint) i take a couple of chisels (or anything else wedge shaped) and insert them above the bushing between the upper arm and the sub frame then when jacking the car up it stops the suspension from going into full droop mode.
If in doubt, flat out. Colin Mc Rae MBE 1968-2007.
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The standard one is #40, the upper arm rebound buffer. It sits on the subframe and under the upper arm.
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The only trouble is I think you are trying to lower the car so low that you will not get the stop fitted without it being crushed when you lower the car onto it's wheels! Try to curb you enthusiasm to build a low rider, the cars just not suitable unless you really start to modify suspention pick up points etc. plus the fact that the first thing to get hit by the road is going to be the aluminium sump!!
Mini's are like buses they come along in a bunch
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Also, while the shocks may survive a few peak loads, the bottom mounting pin is not designed to take such a beating......
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Yes the damper may well stop the over travel but it's not designed to and won't be progressive like the rubber stop albeit not very much. If your going to run the car that low without some sort of re design then you will have to put up with the bad and somewhat dangerous handling................
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I had my mini "in the weeds" screwing in the Hi-Los and didn't like the ride or that inability to carry passengers.
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"If you use these bump stops on a lowered car, they will eliminate much or all of your suspension travel, making the ride intolerable. Furthermore, the brackets will become severely bent by constant impact with the trailing arms. This suggests that even on a car that has not been lowered, they will eventually become bent by occasional impacts. Maybe the factory got it right when they decided not to employ rear bump stops on classic Minis. When these bump stops proved useless in preventing my rear suspension from bottoming, I was able to solve the problem by installing adjustable shocks and setting them just stiff enough to eliminate the bottoming.""
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