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Old Aug 27, 2008 | 06:59 PM
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Show me your before and after pics ZO6 stock height and lowered height after lowering on stock bolts. I plan on doing mine this long weekend. Thanks !!
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Old Aug 27, 2008 | 09:13 PM
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Before...




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I lost a lot pics and I had a lot better ones of after, I need to take some more.
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Old Aug 27, 2008 | 10:13 PM
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Mine is stock height and i scrape everything! I want to lower it badly too

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Old Aug 28, 2008 | 01:14 AM
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Before (on a slight incline):


After (2/3 bushing cut up front):

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Old Aug 28, 2008 | 08:58 AM
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Mine is stock height and i scrape everything! I want to lower it badly too
At stock height, the Z06 has more ground cleareance than most SUV's?

My car is slammed on coilovers and I don't scrape anything? Where are you driving your car?

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Old Aug 28, 2008 | 11:46 AM
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At stock height, the Z06 has more ground cleareance than most SUV's?

My car is slammed on coilovers and I don't scrape anything? Where are you driving your car?

I Getting out of parking lots, going in my driveway/anyone elses driveway. I go sideways and slow everytime. I might consider lowering on stock bolts in the future.
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Old Aug 28, 2008 | 11:55 AM
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I Getting out of parking lots, going in my driveway/anyone elses driveway. I go sideways and slow everytime. I might consider lowering on stock bolts in the future.
Let me clarify scraping.

Do you classify scraping as the front plastic air dam rubbing as scraping or the rockers/underside of the car/exhaust as scraping?

The front air dam does not count and should not bother you if it scrapes
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Ya i believe it is that, i sits about an inch from the ground. Did you trim yours?
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Before After bushings are a memory and i love it
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Ya i believe it is that, i sits about an inch from the ground. Did you trim yours?
I used the Dremel and cut about a 1/3rd off
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they look great
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Thanks guys those look great. I lowered mine this weekend you can really tell the difference in the rear the front is a tad lower I will post my before and after later in the week.
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I've wanted to lower my 2003 Z06 badly for a while. I have avoided it as the area I live in SUCKS for cars period. (I roam over Fairfield county CT with mine as a Daily Driver) And yes I have scraped the underside of the nose...and with everyone that knows me as witness I am so careful it is rediculous. On the way to work there are 2 roads both the only way in and out that if it were lowered I'd bottom or get close to bottoming...

Shoot I went to a high end client in a mil + home the other day and I ever so gently scraped her in wheel ruts... (street turned to dirt/gravel in the deep woods)

Once it is no longer my daily...(this winter) I will probably drop it all the way on stock bolts.

Thank God I'm never sellin her and will bring it back to 100 percent as that stuff pisses me off to no end.
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