I lowered mine all the way down on the stock bolts about a month ago. There is STILL too much gap to suit me.

Is there a way to cut that front bushing without removing the bolt? Sure doesn't appear that way.

 

I'm leaving mine at the stock 4X4 height too, cause I don't want to 'hear the plastic, desingned to flex spoiler scrape', ooh baby!

 

wtf is a waxer? fuggin every other day someone comes out with a new term

 

opposite of a "greaser"

 

so basically a up tight, stinky, old man?

 

Thats what I did. Lift car , remove wheel , lift end of spring with a small hyd. jack so you can turn the bolt. about mid. distance between spring & a arm . I used a small drywall saw about 8" long & pointed.Each side took about 15 min. & a lot of elbow grease. cut the bottom 2 rings off. Be sure you have jack stands or blocks under car. You do it from the center of the car.

 

Well there we go...something to try next week I guess. I've had my front wheels off more times than Jeff Gordon's pit crew on a 500 mile race!

 

Lowered some is fine, lowered too much is stupid.

Lowering the car the amount you have is about right, the car will handle better, and be faster on the track and in an autocross. The downside is that it will scrape the front spoiler a bit more and will occasionally grind the underside on some driveway entrances and things like that. For a performance oriented driver that's an acceptable tradeoff, and we aren't going to complain if it happens because we know we lowered the car to make that trade.

The range of adjustment for the car is beyond what a car with stock springs and bars needs, because with higher roll stiffness (like the T1 bars) you can go lower in ride height than you can with stock Z06 springs and bars. The effects of ride height and the suspension geometry going off are a function of spring stiffness AND roll stiffness. GM was nice enough to give you more adjustment than you need, but if you use it incorrectly the car will be screwed up. Not than most drivers would notice, but if you're serious about performance and not "look" then you want it at the right height. There is also provisions for about -2 degrees of negative camber in the car and you wouldn't put that much in there if you are just street driving the car unless you want ultimate handling at the expense of more tire wear.

If you really like the "lowrider" look, and you want a decent handling car, you need to seriously think about a set of dropped spindles. That lets you lower the car without screwing up the handling and the ride. Dropping the car by using coilovers eliminates the issues of buckboard ride quality, but the geometry is still going to be screwed up and the handling won't be as sweet as if you had the dropped spindles.


BTW a "waxer" is somebody who spends more time polishing his car than driving it, and is more interested in how it looks than how it drives.

 

slammed looks sooo much better.

 

I'm going to be lowering mine today with the stock bolts. To keep everything uniform my plan is to mark the bolts, then turn them all the same amount of turns so that the car drops evenly. Any idea how many turns are required to get approximately 1/2" vertical movement? I won't be able to measure fender height because the car is on stands.

 

start with the rears, you won't find much of a difference on stock bolts. I had it done, and its noticable, but from a distance, not a big deal. doesn't look like dude up top that got his "slammed" nor will it ever w/ stock bolts.

 

Awesome thread! Get poly links and you can ajust the height upto an inch, look sbettered with staggered rims 19/20... sits perfect and no rubbing.

 

 

I'm just wanting to drop it evenly about 3/4"-1". I'll have coil-overs coming eventually......I'm just dropping it a little on the stock bolts in the mean time. I'm not a fan of slammed cars, but they do sit up too much stock.

 

You mean raised spindles, right? Dropping the spindles in relation to the body would raise the car.....

 

No, "dropped spindles" is simply what they're called...

 

Well, apparently mine was lowered by the previous owner. Front bolts are all the way down, but the donut is still in there. It didn't feel like there was a lot to gain by removing the donut.......there was maybe 1/4" between the torsion bar and the lower A-arm so I'm leaving that alone. On the rear, I removed the 4 donuts and sliced them all at the first ring. The rear should come down another 1/2" now.

 

Where did you end up going?

Oh and where's the pics!!

 

"Drop" spindles... http://www.lgmotorsports.com/catalog...oducts_id=1937

Not cheap...$3K to drop 1". Coilovers are the way to go IMO, if you're just looking for the "lowered look" but don't want to sacrafice ride and handling.

 

Got er done by your boy down at woodhouse. little pricey, but MAN I can tell a difference taking corners at 50mph now!!

good point, haven't taken pix to compare yet. will do so this weekend and post up!! thanks again!
david