Thoughts on lowering
Racer
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From: Maryland
thank you.
Safety Car
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You have to disassemble and reassemble everything anyways so if the concern is air/bleeding the front lift you'll have that anyways
Racer
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From: El Dorado Hills CA
Racer
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From: El Dorado Hills CA
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I understand that they are a lot stiffer. Did your ride change much after you installed them? I'll assume you also needed to do an alignment with this setup?
Melting Slicks
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From: Savannah GA
I have not lowered mine yet. I just mentioned that is what I think would be a better method instead of screwing around with the collars.
Race Director
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From: Tampa, Florida
It'll depend what your roads are like as well. Smooth roads? Crap roads? My Lexus is lowered and has solid lower control arm bushings. Here in Tampa its fine. If I were up north...NFW.
Burning Brakes
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Stock height on Corvettes, 911s, etc. always looks appropriate to me and not anything that I would alter. the engineers know far more about ride height here which is damn low to begin with than I do.
Lowered cars always look like an old Benz with busted air suspension.
Lowered cars always look like an old Benz with busted air suspension.
Safety Car
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From: Western Chicago Suburbs
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Burning Brakes
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Le Mans Master
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Use some double sticky tape to hold 4 Styrofoam 1" thick pucks just before the front tires and just after the rear tires.
Drive around for a week.
Measure how much of the Styrofoam is left.
You can lower you car by the minimum of the 4 pads minus ¼"
Drive around for a week.
Measure how much of the Styrofoam is left.
You can lower you car by the minimum of the 4 pads minus ¼"
Melting Slicks
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