Hey, I want to lower my 1993 volvo 240 WAGON.

Was wondering if anyone had some input on this, looking at all options.

If anyone knows the cheapest springs/kits?
Mid tier springs/kits?
Best Springs/Kits?
Most Expensive?
Cut Springs???
Alternative ways to lower it?

Looking for any input/tips on this topic, anything helps and much appreciated!

Thanks So Much!

When you lower your car, it changes the suspension geometry. The rear should be OK

That's why you see fast and furious pretenders that have wheels that look like they are coming off.

On youtube, search for lowered Japanese cars.

You might not go that far, but shortening the springs without other modifications has its cost.

Make sure you check toe in, and keep an eye on the inside of your tires.

Changing to seriously low profile tires can lower your somewhat.

If you plan on larger wheels, take care not to raise your car. I have a photo somewhere where I show that high profile 14 inch tires on our '88 745 GLE, 15 inch snow tires for the same car, 16 inch wheels for our '90 744, and 17 inch, low profile tires on my 855R ALL ARE THE SAME SIZE IN DIAMETER!

First class stuff here ---- https://www.bneshop.com/collections/240

Mr Yount is right; the BNE, (Kaplhenke) stuff is absolutely first rate. This aint gonna be cheap! Be prepared! I'm in for over a grand on my 242 suspension and haven't touched the front yet! (Other than the springs & the KONI sports for the front which are still in the box).
"Speed costs money. How fast do you want to go?"

Is your goal better handling?

Or do you just want to lower because you think it looks cool?

If you only want to do this for appearance, trust me, your car looks fine the way it is.

But the handling thing is a whole rat's nest of other stuff you should do first and it gets expensive.

In any event, don't cut coils.


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Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.

Hi,

Well, it looks to me you have no idea about how it's done or how to do it.
Guess what, I don't either! (:-)

I can tell you this, from my observations though.
It's like having soap bar in your hand while in the shower and then you drop it! It's then, you decide that wasn't a very good idea.
It's not very practical and it takes more effort to keep using it from the floor of the shower!
Soap holders have their purposes and the larger they are, the more things get put in them.

A car is like a large soap holder, people get in with you will want to carry you other stuff to keep your ride useful.
The suspension on anything that can "move" up too a hundred miles per hour and turn corners has a little few more complicated mechanisms working in harmony.
These things are built from the ground up and you are wanting to build it from the sky down!
Even airplanes aren't built that way. Besides they spend more time on the ground than in the air in their lifetimes.
When they have problems,it's when, they are trying to get lower to the ground.
Lowering a car, to where your soap went, brings on those other things you didn't expect to happen!
When landing an airplane, every pilot will tell you, it's really a controlled crash!
Hopefully, without potholes, bumps and snow on the many runways!

If you think the car looks to high and it bothers you enough to have something different, that no one else has, wait until you put the car down among things that it was built to avoid.

Now, take on resale. When most people are car shopping they want something that looks all together. In other words, unmolested and built to be reliable as much or as close to a new car as they can get!
A lowered car is like seeing a Jolly Roger Flag that something is different about that ship.
Or having Skull and Bones insignia on a medicine bottle! Watch out for what lurks under the sheet metal!

I also don't see as many go-cart dealers, probably because they are not to practical for the populace as other four wheel modes of transportation.
With "All" the modifications that you need to do, it will limit your audience, of potential buyers.
Even if you put a thousand or two of value into it, you are just like every other seller out there with modified cars, you have to hope you matched the looks to a buyers money!
But a Volvo 240, I don't see it?

When it comes "down" to it, it's your life and enjoy doing the research along the way!
Personalized items of life tend stay that way, just for them, even after death!

I hope you become really famous!
Who knows, Big Daddy Roth got famous, doing wild things!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Roth
(:-)

Phil