[Mgs] Stock ground clearance?

[Frank P. Marrone]

I called out the frame rail because it seems like a good easy to reference
point.  From there I can gauge if my particular exhaust system configuration
is ok or at least in the norm.  

My car has stock rims with a stock or nearly stock tire. It probably has
sagging springs but that is something I can better access after the car is
back on the ground.  

I take it that exhaust to road clearance is a sore spot?  I've had a couple
of MGBs and I have to say I've had more problems with exhausts on other cars
but maybe I was just too pre-occupied with other issues on my MGBs.

Frank

      

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mgs-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:mgs-bounces at autox.team.net] On
> Behalf Of Max Heim
> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 3:20 PM
> To: MG List
> Subject: Re: [Mgs] Stock ground clearance?
> 
> Somewhere between "barely adequate" and "not nearly enough", depending on
> instantaneous local conditions.
> 
> <g>
> 
> 
> Explain again -- you want a measurement to the frame rail? But the exhaust
> hangs quite a bit below the frame rail. Clearance to the frame, of course,
> is dependent on wheels and tires fitted, spring health, vehicle &
> passenger
> weight, and so on, so I don't know that measuring my roadster will help
> you.
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Max Heim
> '66 MGB GHN3L76149
> If you're near Mountain View, CA,
> it's the primer red one with chrome wires