[Z06] lowering the C5Z
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lowering the C5Z
I took the car in to a shop to be lowered and they could only drop the front about 1/4 inch and the rear about 1/2 inch I know they sell bolts for the rear, but what is there to do for the front?
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How much drop do you want? The Z springs have a high rate which makes them harder to drop. You can cut the bushings in the front to get about another 1/2" or so, but you will need new shocks as you are taking away all your travel and it will not ride as well as before.
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If that's all the drop they were able to get then they did something wrong. I dropped my Z to the maximum on stock bolts and got more than an inch front and rear. I then cut the front bushings for a little more rake. They should have been able to get more adjustment than that.
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Also it takes a while for the car to settle. Drive it around for a while. You should be able to get 5/8" to 1" on stock bolts and without cutting the bushings.
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It hasn't droped any more since they did it for the front. I put about 200 mines on it since then and we have about 18" of snow on the ground right now, so it will be a little while before I get to drive it again.
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Lowered about as far as you can go on stock bolts. I don't see how anybody could go any lower for a car that's driven regularly. I hit about as often as I can stand. Any lower and I would want it back up some. Of course there are some who drop them farther, but they must live in areas with some very level ground.
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Lowered about as far as you can go on stock bolts. I don't see how anybody could go any lower for a car that's driven regularly. I hit about as often as I can stand. Any lower and I would want it back up some. Of course there are some who drop them farther, but they must live in areas with some very level ground.
I would like to lower my car more, just for looks, but I scrape way too much for that. Oh, well.
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Do you scrape
the underside of the car and/or rocker panels
or
the front air deflector (black plastic at bottom of the bumper)
I ask this because my car is slammed on coilovers and I rarely scrape the underside of the rockers (no damage thanks to rocker rails!) only when I am going into or out of steep driveways, so I don't understand how a car lowered on bolts can scrape anything?
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For the people that say they "scrape" with a car lowered on stock bolts.
Do you scrape
the underside of the car and/or rocker panels
or
the front air deflector (black plastic at bottom of the bumper)
I ask this because my car is slammed on coilovers and I rarely scrape the underside of the rockers (no damage thanks to rocker rails!) only when I am going into or out of steep driveways, so I don't understand how a car lowered on bolts can scrape anything?
Do you scrape
the underside of the car and/or rocker panels
or
the front air deflector (black plastic at bottom of the bumper)
I ask this because my car is slammed on coilovers and I rarely scrape the underside of the rockers (no damage thanks to rocker rails!) only when I am going into or out of steep driveways, so I don't understand how a car lowered on bolts can scrape anything?
Most of time it's just the air deflector(every day when I leave my driveway). But on occasion, I have scraped the framerails on steep driveways or dips on SF streets. I have also high-sided and scrped the rocker panels on a steep driveway.
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If that's all the drop they were able to get then they did something wrong. I dropped my Z to the maximum on stock bolts and got more than an inch front and rear. I then cut the front bushings for a little more rake. They should have been able to get more adjustment than that.
