From:	Dave Darling [darling@simlab.arc.nasa.gov]
Sent:	Tuesday, May 18, 1999 8:07 AM
To:	thannum
Subject:	Re: 

>Dave can you tell me or refer me to an article on how to raise a 914, both
>front and back. I bought a basket case 75 914 and someone has lowered it too
>much.

	You raise the front of a 914 by turning the adjuster screws on the
aft end of the torsion bars.  Haynes has a photo and a brief description in
the "front suspension" chapter.
	After you make an adjustment, roll the car back and forth to settle
the suspension.  It may take a lot of screw-turning to have much of an effect
on the height, I'm not sure.
	Hope that you have Koni or Bilstien shocks on the rears.  Some or all
of those have a three-position adjustment for where the lower spring perch
rides on them.  Most other shocks don't have that.  You can buy a kit for
those shocks that has a threaded adjustment for ride height, as well.
	The down side is that the range of adjustment is not that big--and
may very well not be big enough.
	Also, if you don't have those shocks, you're hosed as far as simply
adjusting the height goes.  New springs are the only way to raise the car
back up--and many aftermarket springs lower the car from stock height, so you
may not wind up as high as you want it.

	Good luck!

--DD

Dave Darling                                  74 914 2.0 (decapitated)
                      darling@simlab.arc.nasa.gov
                        "OFF WITH ITS HEADS!"