how much to lower rear?
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how much to lower rear?
I lowered the car front and rear about a month ago, hoping it would settle more over time - which it didnt. The front looks great, but the rear is still too high. I got the longer bolts, but remember threads a while back saying you run into problems when you put the longer bolts on the rear. Is there a certain height the back needs to be up over the front? Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks!
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Engineer,
You need to keep the original rake of the car. Rake is the relation of the front to the rear height.
If you have the stock measurements use those and keep the amount of lowering of the front about the same at the rear.
Hope that is not confusing.
Dave
You need to keep the original rake of the car. Rake is the relation of the front to the rear height.
If you have the stock measurements use those and keep the amount of lowering of the front about the same at the rear.
Hope that is not confusing.
Dave
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Originally Posted by corvette dave
Engineer,
You need to keep the original rake of the car. Rake is the relation of the front to the rear height.
If you have the stock measurements use those and keep the amount of lowering of the front about the same at the rear.
Hope that is not confusing.
Dave
You need to keep the original rake of the car. Rake is the relation of the front to the rear height.
If you have the stock measurements use those and keep the amount of lowering of the front about the same at the rear.
Hope that is not confusing.
Dave
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What happens if you have too much rake? ie the front alot lower than the back.
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Racer
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Thanks for the specs Fred. I think i'm going to try and keep at least 1 inch higher in the back than the front. As far as too much rake, i think you could actually have too much surface area exposed, if you were to look at it in its extremes, a car that looked like this ---- would have a whole lost less wind resistance than a car like this /
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Does this make sense?
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Does this make sense?
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Originally Posted by 98NassauBluC5
If you cut the front bushings off completely, that's metal on metal, right? There's no way that can be good it.... prove me wrong on this one.
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Originally Posted by EnglandGreen
I completely removed my front bolts and installed longer bolts in the rear. I used a thin but hard piece of reinforced silicone hose between the transverse leaf and the lower A arm.
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Originally Posted by Lithium
Me too and no problems to date. I used a piece of dynamat though instead of the silicone hose, but same idea. Lots of people have done it w/o any problems. IMO this is the only way to go about lowering it in the front. Anything less is hardly noticible.
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I had 2 pieces of Dynamat Extreme originally - they wore straight through and I had metal on fibreglass in just a couple of weeks. Went with the reinforced silicone rubber after that experience.
Just my 2 cents
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Originally Posted by EnglandGreen
Marc,
I had 2 pieces of Dynamat Extreme originally - they wore straight through and I had metal on fibreglass in just a couple of weeks. Went with the reinforced silicone rubber after that experience.
Just my 2 cents
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I had 2 pieces of Dynamat Extreme originally - they wore straight through and I had metal on fibreglass in just a couple of weeks. Went with the reinforced silicone rubber after that experience.
Just my 2 cents
EG
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Originally Posted by Lithium
What exactly would reinforced silicone look like? Where would i get it??
--Marc
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