Lowering the C8
Melting Slicks
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If you want the quickest car, the 1LT non-Z51 is actually a little faster, but I would rather have the handling and tracking ability of the Z51. if you try to bolt all this stuff on later it would be costly, and you probably aren't going to get the extra cooling capacity.
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Never understood why anyone would lower a Corvette, that is low already. To test the skid plates maybe? 
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Last edited by switchlanez; Dec 17, 2022 at 05:46 AM.
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Top image is stock height and wheel offset. Between tire and fender looks like a 3-4 finger wheel gap give or take a finger. Bottom image is an official GM marketing photo portraying the C8 lower than stock with wheels pushed out more flush with the fenders. Looks like a 1.5-2 finger wheel gap. If you still don't understand GM's marketing logic it's very simple: The bottom one makes the top one look like an off-roader when it's supposed to be a sports car. Ideally tuned heights for sports cars are generally lower than what's shipped from factory. The factory raised heights are typically a compromise. Some handling performance/aerodynamics get sacrificed to increase ground clearance for everyday road obstacles like parking stops and to meet DOT requirements for headlight/bumper height off the ground. Higher end sports/exotic/super cars typically aren't as compromised--they have sports car height, not commuter car height--and purist owners know tricks to willingly "deal" with the reduced ground clearance in everyday driving. They're the type who lower their C8 to improve form and function (erring more towards performance car than the factory's commuter car height) as shown in GM's marketing image.
So I am good with the basic level of lowering that I did. I don't want to mess with the offset because "beware the JOUNCE!".
When you see these cars bagged, that is where it gets beyond function and more into style and not my thing. There is a video out there of a C8 getting the suspension and wheel wells chopped to hell in order to do an extreme bag job that puts it 1cm from the ground. Looks cool, but no...
