How to understate the "Prior" with their own hands? How to reduce the clearance on the "Prior"?

At the moment, a lot of Russian motorists are asking themselves how to lower the suspension. This applies to the owners of the domestic "Priora". Despite the fact that many drivers try to "elevate" the clearance of their iron horse, some, on the contrary, reduce its ground clearance. Of course, on patency this tuning will not be displayed in the best way, however, the design of such a car will be truly expressive. In this article you will find out what advantages the understating of the suspension gives, and in what ways you can understate the "Prioru" so that it does not look like "collective farm tuning".

Benefits

The main reason why motorists want to lower the suspension is the appearance of the car. After all, after such tuning the design of the car becomes more sporting and original. And if in the external appearance of the "Prior" does not have special distinctive features, then with the help of a lowered suspension it is possible to distinguish it considerably from the gray "crowd" of other machines. On their background, "Priora" will look expressive and dynamic. Due to what is achieved such sportiness? Everything is very simple - thanks to the underestimation of the suspension, the ground clearance of this car becomes as small as that of foreign super-cars.

However, "Priora" changes after such tuning not only externally. After understating the suspension significantly improves the maneuverability of the car, and almost disappear rolls on corners. This car is less bent on bends, and it is confidently kept on the track at high speeds. This stability is achieved due to the fact that the lowered suspension compensates the centrifugal force with the lateral roll. Thanks to this, the wheels do not break into the drift. In addition, the exchange rate stability also increases. In other words, "Priora" is better "listening to the helm" and reacts faster to its turns.

Who needs it?

Basically, young motorists who want to distinguish their iron horse "from the crowd" or simply to brag on the background of friends and acquaintances want to lower the "Prior". However, if you are using this car for family trips, such tuning certainly will only harm the car, and thus you will not do it any good. A clear example of this is the photo "Priora" under the name "below only the skirting board", which you can see in this photo.

Looking at such a car, it's hard to imagine what will happen with the bottom if 2 or more people, including the driver, sit in the salon. Obviously, such an understated suspension on the "Prior" 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 last long. Therefore, everything must be done within reason.

What should I fear?

As we noted above, you need to fear first of all pits and uneven roads. And it's best to go around such streets, so that later you do not have to contact the service for repair and restoration work. Therefore, understate the suspension is only when most of the streets of your city is well asphalted. But even this can not protect you from damage to the bottom. When parking, pay special attention to the curbs, since at low ground clearance you can simply break the front or rear bumper about its construction.

How to understate Prioru with your own hands?

If you still decided to make your car bright and sporty, despite the various dangers in the form of pits and curbs, first of all decide on what method you will make clearance decrease. Now on sites and forums dozens of methods are placed, beginning from application of self-made materials, finishing with new professional tools. Below we consider the most popular of these methods and emphasize all their pros and cons.

Purchase of tuning kits

The least expensive and simple solution in the matter of "how to understate Prioru" is the purchase of special suspension tuning kits. They often include already prepared springs of shorter sizes, struts of shock absorbers with a shorter rod and a bunch of all kinds of small parts. Plus this method - a small waste of time and effort to understate the suspension. In fact, all you have to do is install the purchased parts in place of the regular ones. But at the same time, you need to remember that such sets are much more expensive than all other ways of understating 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 clearance in a few minutes and be sure that this design does not fall apart, this option fits best.

In addition, you can buy more rigid stabilizers and install them on the front and rear suspension.

Set of shock absorbers with adjustable clearance

Quite a practical option, but at the same time no less 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 everything you need to add the cost of adjusting the camber-toe of the wheels on the SRT.

What is special about such shock absorbers? The name itself indicates that they have a function of self-leveling, that is, you can set the required clearance at any time. For example, in the summer you can understate the "Prioru", and in the winter you can slightly "lift" it (for a couple of centimeters). Will there be any problems with finding such spare parts? Fortunately, for today there are a sufficient number of companies that produce adjustable racks for Volzhsky production cars. In the market there are any types of shock absorbers, so you can choose the right option for everyone - the goods are presented for every taste and purse. Again, plus this method is the safety and speed of the work (nothing to cut and weld it is not necessary). But the cost of such racks is decent - good shock absorbers cost at least 10 thousand rubles.

Springs "handicraft" production

This method is not a very good alternative to the previous methods. And if you are sure that after shortening the spring for 2-3 turns of "Lada Priora" understated will behave well on the road, you are deeply mistaken. Yes, understating the suspension makes the car maneuverable, but this is only possible if reasonable details and tools are used in tuning. It is not recommended to install understated racks on "Prioru" of handicraft production. Why does such a car become less manageable and soft on pits? The thing is that when the springs are shortened, the rack can simply exhaust its free stroke until the crop is completely compressed. Due to the impact of the car on the pit, the force that remains in the rack goes into the glass and the bearing, and this does not increase their service life in any way.

Therefore, after shortening the springs in this way, prepare for frequent calls to the service station and unforeseen expenses for replacing regular parts. The chassis will simply 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 it is not worth while to "budget", because the cost of further repair of the suspension will not greatly please you. Therefore, if you install lowered springs on the "Prior", it is only purchased in specialized stores and produced on special equipment. Otherwise, there will be no benefit from such tuning.

Underestimated "Priora" hatchback and air suspension

Another interesting way, which is often used in the US on the "Cadillacs" and "Chevrolets" in the 60's and 50's. Surely every one of us saw in Hollywood movies how such machines literally jump on the move, pushing from the road, to a significant height. So, this "magic" just provides a pneumatic suspension, which by means of a pneumatic pump pumps special pillows, and they at the expense of their volume raise the car 10-30 centimeters up. Serially for passenger cars such a running system is not set, but heavy-duty cars are supplied with it quite often. Of course, this is not done so that the wagon jumps on the road (and this is not possible from the point of view of the low power of the pump), but because only this suspension carries out a smooth ride and at the same time does not harm the truck at a full load of 20-40 tons . As for our "Priora", applying this system for such a car will be too expensive, although the result will attract the attention of many.

Conclusion

Proceeding from all of the above, we were convinced that you can understate Prioru only in two ways (if we talk about optimal solutions) - buy a special tuning kit suspension, or change the springs with springs to shock absorbers with an adjustable rod output.