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Old Jan 26, 2011 | 11:47 PM
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Originally Posted by cnero
This is wonderful having experienced people out there o ask questions of.

Most of the members here will help anyway we can! Get ready for some members that will bite when they smell blood in the water!


You are gonna scrape and drag, like they said above,, slow and easy!
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Old Jan 27, 2011 | 09:23 AM
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Yeah slow and angled. My driveway is steep too, always get a bit of scrape.
With my C4 and headers with big tubes, no matter how slow I went over some speed bumps, the exhaust would scrape. I put a lot of coin in the curse jar.

Just part of the pride of ownership.
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Old Jan 27, 2011 | 12:16 PM
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Angle is the key...

My car is lowered with headers and they stick down so I try not to take my car unless I know exactly where I am going. Speed bumps in a lot of cases are emergency U turns for me.

Rob
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Old Jan 27, 2011 | 12:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Qwik01
Aw man. I meant 90 degree angles.
Soooo, you slide up sideways?









( I think the term you're lookng for is "45 degrees", lol)
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Old Jan 27, 2011 | 12:52 PM
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Originally Posted by MidLifeinMI
Soooo, you slide up sideways?


( I think the term you're lookng for is "45 degrees", lol)
He just drives next to them.
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Old Jan 28, 2011 | 01:57 AM
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Stock ride hieght has I think about 4.5 inches clearence under the rocker panels which unlike the air damn, wont "give a damn" inch

I usually tell people driving for the first time, "if you see something on the road, and it wont fit in your mouth, it wont fit under the car".

Depends on who's driving I guess
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Old Feb 15, 2011 | 05:48 AM
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Originally Posted by jdot
Yeah I hate those blasted parking blocks too.
Do it the Corvette way - back in.
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Old Feb 15, 2011 | 08:29 AM
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Originally Posted by skylarkul
Do it the Corvette way - back in.
Agreed!
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Originally Posted by UM Rebel
But do be careful of the rocker panels. They don't give and are expensive to repair.


I scraped the passenger side on mine the first week I had it. It was close to $1500 to repair and repaint it.
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Old Feb 15, 2011 | 10:12 AM
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Slow & at a angle! I dress-up my air dam bottom while detailing with a file or utility knife. Still don't like the scraping sounds! Good luck!
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