Hey Lead,
You can drop the car pretty far, the exact height is going to depend upon what type of car you have. For the first gen cars, the lowest practical height if you are going to drive the car is very similar to Stielow's awesome "Mule," any lower and you are going to start scraping speed bumps, etc. Even at this height, there is still ample bump travel. You can certainly go lower, I know that Jake's killer 68 is going to be dropped into the weeds, and that is no problem.
One of the things that we incorporated into the design is adjustability, you can change the control arm pickup points (if necessary) to get the best geometry "back" if you raise or lower the car. We looked at countless cars to find the range of ride heights folks use, and even though you'd never be able to tell from magazine shots, etc, there is a pretty darned big difference between cars, I was surprised. This is a big deal, because the suspension geometry for any setup is going to change as a function of ride height (or bump travel, rebound travel). For setups with short to modest control arms, important attributes, such as anti-squat will be very different from one ride height to the next (which also translates to dynamic instability). Not only do we have the ability adjust, but we use really long control arms, WAY longer than the competition, to make the transitional changes happen far more slowly, which directly translates into real world stability. It's all in the physics.
Mark
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