На данный момент очень много российских motorists are wondering how to lower the suspension. This also applies to the owners of the domestic "Priory". Despite the fact that many drivers are trying to “elevate” the ground clearance of their iron horse, some, on the contrary, reduce its ground clearance. Of course, such tuning will not be displayed in the best way on the road, but the design of such a car will be truly expressive. In this article, you will learn what advantages the lowering of the suspension offers, and in what ways you can underestimate the “Prior” so that it does not look like “collective-farm tuning”.
Benefits
The main reason motorists wantunderstate the suspension - is the appearance of the car. Indeed, after such a tuning, the design of the car becomes more sporty and original. And if the Priora does not have any particular distinctive features in appearance, then with the help of an understated suspension, it can be significantly distinguished from the gray “crowd” of other cars. On their background, the Priora will look expressive and dynamic. Due to what is achieved such sportiness? Everything is very simple - due to the lower suspension, the clearance of this car becomes as small as that of foreign supercars.
However, the "Priora" is changed after such tuning.not only externally. After lowering the suspension, the maneuverability of the car is significantly improved, and the bends on bends practically disappear. Such a machine puts less on bends, and it steadily keeps on the track at high speeds. Such stability is achieved due to the fact that the lowered suspension compensates for the centrifugal force of the side roll. Due to this, the wheels do not break into a skid. In addition, increasing exchange rate stability. In other words, “Priora” better “listens to the helm” and reacts faster to its turns.
Who needs it?
Mostly underestimate the "Prior" wish youngmotorists who wish to separate their iron horse "from the crowd" or just boast against the background of friends and acquaintances. However, if you operate this car also for family trips, surely such tuning will only harm the car, and thus you will not do anything good for it. A good example of this is the photo "Priory" called "below only the plinth", which you can see in this photo.
Looking at this car, it is difficult to imaginewhat will happen to the bottom if 2 or more people sit in the salon, including the driver. Obviously such a lowered suspension on the Priora is not suitable for simple family trips, and if we take into account the fact that in many parts of Russia the roads are full of holes and bumps, the bottom of such a car will not live long. Therefore, everything must be done within reason.
What should be afraid of?
Как мы уже отметили выше, бояться нужно в первую all holes and rough roads. And the best way to go around such streets, so as not to contact the service for repair and restoration work. Therefore, the suspension should be lowered only when most of the streets in your city are well asphalted. But even this can not protect you from damage to the bottom. When parking, pay special attention to the curbs, as with a low clearance you can simply break the front or rear bumper on its design.
How to understate the "Prior" with your own hands?
If you still decide to make your carbright and sporty, despite the various dangers in the form of pits and borders, first of all decide on the way you will reduce the clearance. Now dozens of methods are available on websites and forums, ranging from the use of home-made materials to new professional tools. Below we look at the most popular of these methods and highlight all their pros and cons.
Purchase tuning kits
The least expensive and simple solution in question“How to understate the Prior” is the purchase of special tuning tuning kits. They often include ready-made springs of shortened sizes, strut struts with a shortened rod and a bunch of small details. The advantage of this method is a small waste of time and effort to lower the suspension. In fact, all you have to do is to install the purchased parts in place of the regular ones. But at the same time it must be remembered that such sets are worth much more than all other ways of lowering the suspension. Although in terms of security, this method of tuning is more acceptable than all the others. Therefore, if you want to save your personal time, reduce ground clearance in a few minutes and be sure that such a structure will not collapse, this option is best suited.
In addition, you can purchase tighter stabilizers and install them on the front and rear suspension.
Set of shock absorbers with adjustable ground clearance
Quite a practical option, but at the same time notless expensive. New racks with springs (namely, these two parts are included in this set of shock absorbers) will cost you at least 10 thousand rubles, plus you need to add the cost of adjusting the camber to toe.
What are special shock absorbers?The name itself suggests that they have the function of self-setting clearance, that is, you can expose the necessary clearance absolutely at any time. For example, in the summer you can underestimate Priora, and in winter you can slightly “raise” it (by a couple of centimeters). Whether there will be problems with search of such spare parts? Fortunately, today there are a sufficient number of companies that produce adjustable racks on Volga production cars. Any types of shock absorbers are on the market, so everyone can choose a suitable option - the goods are presented for every taste and wallet. Again, the plus of this method lies in the safety and speed of the work performed (nothing should be cut and podvarivat). But the cost of such racks is decent - good shock absorbers cost at least 10 thousand rubles.
Springs "handicraft" production
This method is not very good.alternative to the previous methods. And if you are sure that after shortening the spring by 2-3 turns of “Lada Priora”, the understated will behave well on the road, you are deeply mistaken. Yes, lowering the suspension makes the car maneuverable, but this is only possible if reasonable details and tools are used during tuning. It is not recommended to install lowered racks on "Priora" handicraft production. Why such a car becomes less manageable and soft in the pits? The fact is that when shortening the springs, the stand can simply exhaust its free play until the trimmed part is fully compressed. Due to the collision of the car on the pit, the force that remained in the rack goes into the glass and the thrust bearing, and this in no way increases their service life.
Therefore, after shortening the springs in this wayPrepare for frequent calls to the service station and unforeseen expenses for the replacement of standard parts. Chassis simply will destroy itself, and the cost of spare parts will be measured in tens of thousands of rubles. In conclusion about the springs of "handicraft" production, I would like to say that you should not be led to a "budget", because the cost of further repairing the suspension will not greatly please you. Therefore, if you install lowered springs on the "Prior", then only purchased in specialized stores and manufactured on special equipment. Otherwise, the benefits of such tuning will not be.
Lowered "Priora" hatchback and air suspension
Еще один интересный способ, который часто used in the United States on the Cadillac and Chevrolet of the 1960s and 1950s. Surely each of us saw in Hollywood films how such cars literally bounce on the move, pushing off from the road, to a significant height. So, this “magic” is just provided by an air suspension, which by means of a pneumopump pumps up special pillows, and they lift the car up to 10-30 centimeters due to its volume. Serially on passenger cars such a running system is not set, but heavy trucks are supplied with it quite often. Of course, this is not done so that the truck would bounce on the road (and this is impossible from the point of view of low pump power), but because only such a suspension makes a smooth ride and at the same time does not harm the truck at full load of 20-40 tons . As for our Priory, this system will be too expensive for such a car, although the result will attract the attention of many.
Conclusion
Based on all of the above, we have seenthat the “Prior” can be understated only in two ways (if we are talking about optimal solutions) - buy a special tuning suspension kit or change racks with springs for shock absorbers with an adjustable rod output.
