Hello all, just after some advice on ride heights we have fitted hi-los and running on 10"x145 tyres?? Cheers tsb

100mm off the ground so the law can't ping you.

2.5-3 fingers between front tyre and wheelarch works for me.

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

Factory ride height or ground clearance for a Leyland Mini ( I,m just using this as a reference )

165mm 6.5 inches

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I agree with drmini and use 2 1/2 "fat fingers" between the top of the tyre and the wheel arch. This has worked for all North American driving...but I would go to at least 3 "fat fingers" for driving on Australia's highways, especially in NSW. Best hwy. was the Stuart in the NT.

27,000 kms. in the Clubman Window Van was hard on the front suspension during all of the driving related to the One Lap adventure. might have been a bit different with new rubber springs up front...but we used better used cones. But adj. trumpets and Koni Sport dampers helped.

As a note: stopped Christmas Eve in Mission to say hello to ice racer Nolan Kitchener. He had a customer's roundnose Van on the hoist. Fake rubber doughnuts (with Dunlop moulded in) were flat as pancakes.

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Select a gear, bring up the revs and release the clutch...off you go!

hee hee,,, hey Nick, say hellow to Nolan for me will ya>? he dropped in here a few years ago & bought a few mokes, i was meaning to get over there one day & have a fang in his ice-racer but i`m allergic to flying or rather allergic to the plane crashing while i`m inside it is more the point
cheers mate

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

thanks all, we adjusted 2-3 fingers and seems ok.