[Mgs] lowering rubber bumper car

[Max Heim]

I can see how using cut-down springs, for example, could change the geometry. But what I am wondering is why one couldn’t just install the entire front suspension from a CB car, including the crossmember, thereby duplicating the ride height and geometry of the original design? I don’t believe the RB cars changed the tub or the attachment points of the crossmember, did they? It’s possible that I don’t know what I’m talking about, however — I have never had anything to do with RBs.

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Max Heim
'66 MGB


> On Jan 31, 2024, at 12:28 AM, Paul Hunt <paulbhunt73 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Incidentally, watching a Richard Hammond's Workshop episode (a couple of years old) last night where they took a lowered GT up Prescott and round a hairpin there was a bang - just a demo run, not timed.  Opinion was it was something to do with the rack as when lowered the steering arms are no longer parallel to the ground.  That also causes bump steer.
> 
> PaulH.
> 
> On 30/01/2024 22:20, dcouncill wrote:
>> I don't think there is much to the process for the lowering itself. Several vendors sell kits with the blocks, springs, and associated parts such as Moss:
>> https://mossmotors.com/264-399-rubber-bumper-mgb-suspension-lowering-kit
>> Then it's just a matter of removal and replacement.
>> 
>> David Councill
>> 67 BGT, 64 B, 72B
>> 
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