I have the lowering kit and I wanted to know if anyone that has done it has an opinion about the ride quality after doing it. I know the bump stops can be harsh but how is the overall ride changed? Will I need to do another 4 wheel alignment? Thanks Forum!

 

Lowered the 84.. Its not really as low as I wanted, Alot of people seem to experience the same thing. Ride quality didnt change.. I didn't need a alignment but you might.

 

I just put new rims on and had the alignment done and I am running 275/40/17 all the way around. From what I understand the lowering is about an 1"1/2. Don't want to pay for another alignment if i lower it and turn the ride quality to crap!

 

Lowered my '84 a few weeks ago and I'm very pleased with the result. Ride quality did not change and I find no apparent indication that I need an alignment in the way that it drives. I'm going to take a few measurements when I get time and see how far it is from spec.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1634366/align.pdf

 

Thanks for the input. Do you have before and after pics too?

 

I thought I remember mine having a whole bunch of rear negative camber after I was done. I don't recall the front "looking" like it was off.

 

No before or after pics, but my drop was very close to 1.5 inches in the front and a full 2 inches in the rear. This allowed me to match the front drop and then just a little more which took the rake out of the car's stance.

Note that to get this on the front you'll need to not use the rubber bumpers in the kit AND remove the rubber pads from the ends of the springs. I'd like to say that there is another way, but short of modifying the lower control arms there is not. I can't say that I recommend this - but it's working for me and many posts I've found about this method date back many years with none since indicating that this led to problems.

I can see how this might result in negative camber. I'm hardly an expert, but I agree that the car doesn't "look" like some do after lowering, where you can literally see the change in camber. When I find the time I'm going to attempt the alignment from the link that I provided, but not this weekend.

I spent the day at the Car Craft Nationals in St. Paul (awesome as always - those who have never been should make the trip some time). Tonight I'm dropping the ride height on the wife's Audi - maybe into tomorrow depending on how difficult that process becomes. Never done it before, but how difficult can it be, right? I put off lowering the Corvette for quite a while before digging in and honestly the great result has encouraged me to do the same with the Audi. We'll see...

 

It will loose some "comfort", you are reducing suspension's travel. Nothing too noticeable.

Yes

 

When you lower the front, I would have to imagine the front splitter really scrapes everything. My front splitter at stock height always scrapes when turning off a highway into a gas station, or entering an inclined driveway too quickly. How much worse does it get when you lower? Does it really improve the handling on a street car or are you guys just going after a look?

 

My 91 Vette is lowered, 26" front and 26 3/4" rear which varies depending on fuel level...

Cut stock center spring rubber, shims removed and cut down the spring end pads. 10" lowering bolts in the rear.

Nice ride and Awesome handling with 19x10" wheels 285/30/19 Continental tires and no front spoiler lip scraping...if angled out of the driveway...

 

Same here, but with ZR1 A-Mold wheels in the proper offset for the early cars.

I'd considered trimming outer sections of the air dam to match the center (about a half-inch shorter in the center) to afford a little more room if need be, but I find that if I'm careful I don't scrape often enough or hard enough to be concerned.

I don't find any loss of "comfort", but being an '84 mine wasn't all that comfortable to begin with so maybe this is something a guy with a later C4 might experience. I will say that the first two weeks or so the front springs creaked when articulating the suspension - in and out of the driveway and that sort of thing. They've settled in and they don't creak anymore.

This is the best $20 modification you can make to your C4 in my opinion. Once you get your car down where it should be (IMHO) you'll be amazed how high the non-lowered C4s look.

We got the car about a year ago and I looked at a whole lot of C4s on the internet. I was in the market for wheels and tires and also in search of something to enhance the appearance of the raised center of the hood. I saved a whole lot of images of cars that I especially liked and in the process I came to realize that all of these had one thing in common - they've all been lowered. That wasn't immediately obvious to me, but they all had the "it" factor that was all about how the wheel and tire fit the wheel well. For me it's not so much about how close to the ground the car rides, but how the wheels and tires fit the wheel wells.

To each his own, but I absolutely LOVE the improvement to appearance that this has made in my case. It has probably improved handling too, but it's a street car that already handled well so I don't have any objective way to assess this. What I can say is that it handles at least as well as it did.

 

Been lowered since 2004 not much difference in ride quality. However, you will need a good alignment when finished.