Torsion key drop

As far as I know, no one makes an off the shelf unit. How much are you trying to lower the car? The problem with these front ends is that moving the ride height also throws off the alignment. A low rider shop could probably custom fabricate a dropped spindle configuration but this will likely cause a lot of ride and handling problems.

Dave
 
When you lower your car by cranking the torsion bars down, there isn't much suspension travel and will bottom-out the suspension (on the bum stops) pretty easily. I don't know of any "keys" to lower our cars, just back off the bolt on each lower control arm. You should use much firmer torsion bars to stay off the bump stops as much as you can. You'll have to decide how you're going to drive your car, if you're going to just drive it around town, have a party and drop it almost to the stops, but if you want to drive it a couple thousand miles a year, the drop spindles with firmer torsion bars would be better. Either way your oil pan is in trouble if you go too low.
Firm Feel offers a drop spindle that would still allow the suspension to have closer to normal geometry. They're sold out at this time, but it might be worth a call to Matt (Firm Feel) and talk about them.
You would need to do an upgrade to disc brakes to use them, but this spindle would be an option. I got my 1.12" torsion bars, suspension rebuild kit, tubular control arms, and 1" drop rear springs from them. I added a rear sway bar and larger front from PST. At this time Firm Feel has a nicer set of sway bars (I bought mine 7 years ago). Since I'm not going too low, I'm not go with the spindles.

 
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