The wheel arch height is the normalizer and removes the wheel/tire
variation, tire squat, as well as spring height variation.

Thanks much, enjoy the Holidays!

Jim Akiba

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 2:17 AM, Jake de Villiers
<crescentbeachguitar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jim, you're a kook!� An interesting, intelligent, curious kook but...
>
> I'll try to measure my vans on Sunday - I'm working the 24th and 26th and
> you know what's happening on the 25th!
>
> You don't care that they have wildly different tire sizes?
>
> Merry Christmas, Jake
>
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Jim Akiba <syncrolist@bostig.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I was hoping to enlist the help of the list to collect some
>> measurement data. If you're game, grab a tape maesure(which is
>> intentionally mispelled for you west coast/pacific NW crowd since
>> that's how you guys seem to pronounce it) and head to your van! Make
>> sure it's pahked(how we pronounce it) on relatively level or even
>> ground.
>>
>> I need help with:
>>
>> 1) �Drivers and Passengers side wheel arch measurement (from ground to
>> the bottom-most edge of the middle of the wheel arch)
>> 2) �Lowest point (ground to the absolute lowest point, and it's name,
>> ie "skid plate" or "oil pan")
>> 3) �Year, Model specifics(carat, syncro, westy, etc etc)
>> 4) �Additional specifics (conversion? stock wbx? what kind, displacement,
>> etc)
>>
>> I don't need to know wheel/tire sizes etc.
>>
>> Why should you help?
>>
>> 1) You like vanagons so you're generally a helpful person, and may
>> believe in Karma, since without it you'd have likely died roadside
>> long ago
>> 2) I am going to randomly send 2 participants Bostig T-shirts on Jan
>> 15th(which have the witchdoctor vanagon on the back, and he's cool)
>> 3) You're bored, and it's quick/easy
>> 4) I need to know where we actually stand with regard to ground
>> clearance for advertising purposes <---- super secret core reason for
>> the post
>>
>> Send your listdatapoints to:
>>
>> listdatapoints@bostig.com and thank you in advance for the help!
>>
>> Moderators, if I'm doing anything nokay let me know... or just go
>> samba-style and start deleting all threads that I've ever participated
>> in because clearly they are all malicious hard-selling and I've never
>> bought any banners.
>>
>> Happy holidays everyone, and thanks in advance,
>>
>> Jim Akiba
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> Jake
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