Lowrider plans...

yeah it might be worth checking the vehicle you wonna do is actually easily juiceable/baggable before you start thinging about things like wheels........

if its british itll probably be leaf spring rear, and to do it right youll need to get rid of that and 3-link it before you can even think about juice or bags.......

its gonna be a Mk3 Zephyr 6....its got the best bonnet/boot balance of the british cars that i know of, plus the little fins for the USA homage. unless you guys know of another car that would be a good base?

The expense thing I'm not worried about...ive decided to scrap certain plans on other things and do this slowly over about a year....so i don't have to worry about budgeting and not getting the quality i want. Ive got the money for the vehicle ready and waiting for the perfect one to turn up.

Really i aint worried about the engine as thats gonna be changed. Its a really tidy body and chassis I'm looking for.

youve not actually said what type of lowrider you want. i assume a mild custom '60s style?

does a zephyr have a seperate chassis or not? with the age of it id think not?
seperate-chassis cars are 1000 times easier to juice/bag. for the amount of re-enfocement needed to get a monoque to not crack and flex with a system, its arguably easier to knock up a 2x4 chassis with suspension designed to take juice/bags, and cut the floor out of the car.

what do you want the car to actually do?
do you just want fairly tame, slowish speed, up and down, front-back side-side, with say 6" of lift and be able to lay the sills on the floor? if so go for bags.
or do you want massive lift, super quick system, huge rolling 3 wheels and to be able to bounce the front wheels a foot off the floor? if so go juice.

you wont be able to get the chicano look, cos the smallest wires you can get is 13" which look pretty big on a british car, unlike when they're fitted to a 20 foot long impala. one consideration is the bigger the wheels, the more mods youll need to get it to lay out.

PA Cresta rolling low on supremes, please.

Bagged, SBC, smooth auto, two tone high-gloss black and either electric blue flake or cherry flake.

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Can you get hydraulic mcpherson struts? I thought you could only get air struts?

Matt

i wanted to take a few influences from different styles...bits and bobs, and try fit them together yet keep a british twinge.

Wheel size maybe about 15-17" max
Paint either Mainly white with some black or vice-versa (all nice and glossy mind), with maybe something special on the roof.

Gotta be a 60's car for the slightly squarer shapes but still having somes 50's creeping in (fins etc).

Beware they don't like people spending actual money on cars round this way apparently...

I on the other hand applaud a dedication to excellence

If you go with a non-wire rim I'd head to the top of your sizing 17" On a car the size of the Zodiac you should be able to pull it off (possibly even an 18") ... If you go wires though I'd stick with traditional 14"

If you go modern then something billet (fosse wheels etc.) might be nice to bring in a bit of the modern rod influence without being too over powering.

its maccy strut as well? oh god, you couldnt possibly have picked a worse car to do!!

definate best way in the long run would be a new chassis with twin A-arm on the front.
you can convert struts to bags or juice, but its expensive and the finished product wouldnt be a good as swopping the whole front end to twin-A

oh, and to get it to lay out on 17-18" rims would more than likely involve some arch chopping, especially with struts.
you may as well just buy a shitter for a few hundred quid, cut out all the arches, floor and suspension then build a good box section chassis with suitable suspension to drop the shell over, then fab a set of wheel tubs and panel the floor in.

Thats why I went for steels with trim rings,on my daily driven lowrider.