Lowered Vette...maybe too LOW!
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I went from the 4x4 look to sucking up cigarette butts off the road because it was so low. I kept making adjustments until i found a happy medium. I say experiment with the ride height until your happy with the ride and look.
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I am installing QA1 coilovers this winter, and will bring the car up another 1/2" in front and 3/4" in the rear. Getting a replacement front spoiler that will be trimmed 1" as well. I should be okay then.
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Need to see a pic of your car to really see what's going on, but me still tinks you're over reacting to scrapping noise of the spoiler. Look at it this way, if it wasn't there you would have no notice that the front end was four inches from kissing something, a 'warning' if you will! So really it's a good thing IMHO.
My car is low, I'm on Pfadt c/o's, and full comp suspension, and no I've never made contact with anything (whew!!)! I definitely do drive differently, watching further ahead at other cars reacting to pot holes and such. Yes, been caught a couple times, no damage. When I go down into my condo underground I do scrape my cats though.
BTW: I do have the front rollers, and DOUBLE frame rail savers.
Any car lowered on the stock bolts is nothing to worry about at all, still in 4x4 country.
Frank
Weenie you say! Yeah weenie me is just concern for banging something more vital than the chin wiskers...
Your vette is lower than mine for sure. I don't know where you live and drive, but have you ever rapped anything other that the air dams? I'm thinking about some of the road construction bumps I occasionally encounter while on the interstate. Some of them are abrupt one inch or more pavement height changes accross all lanes, and thus unavoidable especially at highway speeds in dense traffic. That's the nightmare scenario that concerns me most, and really not the occasional air dam scrape. But I do like the low down stance too...
Your vette is lower than mine for sure. I don't know where you live and drive, but have you ever rapped anything other that the air dams? I'm thinking about some of the road construction bumps I occasionally encounter while on the interstate. Some of them are abrupt one inch or more pavement height changes accross all lanes, and thus unavoidable especially at highway speeds in dense traffic. That's the nightmare scenario that concerns me most, and really not the occasional air dam scrape. But I do like the low down stance too...
