Short stroke suspension

[totta Crolla]

Here is the deal, yes the suspension is for my (tarmac) rally car and
yes my suspension for that application is very very good at the moment.
I'm very much a function over form kind of person but I have been
offered some short stroke dampers and Corollas always look good low.
The idea was to lower the car whilst keeping everything else as it is
now, it seems my suspicions about this are correct though.

You are of course correct in what you are saying about Escorts and
sometimes I wonder if Toyota got hold of a copy of the "Ford Escort rally
preparation" manual published by Boreham Ford in the 1970's when
they designed the AE86
Most of the Escort design weaknesses picked out in the book appear to have been deliberately over engineered on the '86 a good example is the way the steering column attaches to the body.
RAS motorsport have made the whole book available to download free and here is a link to one of the pdf's. Interesting stuff

http://www.rasmotorsport.com/Billeder/Mo...n-Rear.pdf