Lowered car question
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From: clovis ca usa calif
Lowered car question
My 87 Vette was lowered 4 years ago. The guys at Coast Corvette asked me how low I wanted it. I told them to put it in the weeds. This leads me to believe there could be room for adjustment. Is it possable to raise the front end 2 inches without reversing the entire process? I'm tired of the ruff ride.(yes,I'm getting old!)
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From: Fremont Oh
If they put coilovers on it i would be "easy" if you retained the stock spring that is goiing to be more difficult... Since yo would literally have to pull the spring to add the rubber bumpers back on it...
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Originally Posted by Mo_Bandy
If they put coilovers on it i would be "easy" if you retained the stock spring that is goiing to be more difficult... Since yo would literally have to pull the spring to add the rubber bumpers back on it...
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When lowering these cars you remove the rubber blocks that are on top of the spring and replace them with small wedges. Also to get it even lower some people remove the rubber pads on the ends of the spring. The only way I know of to raise the car back up is to remove the wedges and replace them with some pads off a stock spring or something along those lines.
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Originally Posted by fsr402
When lowering these cars you remove the rubber blocks that are on top of the spring and replace them with small wedges. Also to get it even lower some people remove the rubber pads on the ends of the spring. The only way I know of to raise the car back up is to remove the wedges and replace them with some pads off a stock spring or something along those lines.
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From: Marianna FL
My car had about 1/2" of aluminum shims on top of the rubber pads. I just moved these to the bottom of the spring so I didn't have to shorten or replace the bolts holding the spring in. You could get some height restored if yours uses similar shims, but not 2".
