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Lowering the Lincoln Mark VIII is now possible thanks to Kale and other research. Kale has supplied us with the information on how to drop the car. I am researching a method to adjust the ride height on demand by fooling the suspension computer. I hope to achieve this with a voltage adjuster of some kind.

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Warning: Do not attempt to drive the vehicle while slammed this WILL result in damage to your car.

Info from Kale: (Will be editted later)

There are a few restrictions and limitations that need to be considered. My car sits at about a two-inch drop all around. For it to work right, the car must be lowered. The pump will only operate for 90 seconds. If your car sits at normal height, it would take longer than 90 seconds to pump up from its slammed position. Then again, someone could just use it to lower their car to a desired height. I use mine to slam the car (sometimes) when it's parked, but also to get an extra inch or so drop on occasion.

Also, the front will drop faster than the rear. The timer relay is adjustable up to 90 seconds, but not adjustable front/rear. This makes for an interesting problem if you were to just drop the car only a couple of inches via your alarm transmitter. Since you can't control front and rear drop times (unless you were to hook up an additional timer relay) the car will looked jacked up, because it only takes about twenty seconds to completely drop the front, whereas the rear takes about 60 seconds (for my car--w/2-inch drop) and probably 90 seconds or so for a stock car.

For a complete slam, it works fine, but a car sitting at stock height will take too long to pump back up, so if one was to alter the relay to only bleed for 30 seconds (so that the pump could pump the car back up), the front would drop all the way down and the rear would still be up. You could easily hook up another relay to combat this problem.

Another quirk is that the front pumps up first, then the rear. If you drop the car all the way down, you won't be able to drive the car for 70-80 seconds because the rear will need to get at least an inch or so of travel so that it doesn't rub. Mine drops till the rear tire sits at the fender. That way, I can drive the car after only a few seconds. You just need to get some travel in the front struts so that it doesn't bounce around or rub. >From there the car will automatically pump back up to the original height. Totally slammed, the rim will almost sit at the fender.

Plus, if you were to bleed the struts while the car was on, such as at a light or on the freeway, a CHECK AIR RIDE will display. This will shut down the system so that it stops taking input from the sensors. Not really a problem, but to get the car to pump back up, you must turn off the ignition, then restart the car. But, if you were to lower the car BEFORE it was started and turn the air-ride switch off, if you needed to raise the car for any reason, you could simply turn on the switch.

Kale



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