Z.ROC28

I'm really considerin lowering my camaro about 2 inches... The only thing im worried about is losing ride quality, is there any way to get away with lowering the ride height and keeping the ride quality?

compuwiz1937

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Don't count on it. If it's too floaty the car will bottom out to easy.

19doug90

depends on what you mean by ride quality.

youre going to feel more bumps along the way, but getting rid of that 8" of body roll to me is what id call improved ride quality.

Z.ROC28

Well i am lookin forward to improved handling, but i guess what i meant by ride quality is how smooth it rides down the road. I dont expect there to be a way to ride exactly as it did before i lower it but Im just afraid its gonna turn into a headache from the bumpyness everytime i take it out.

Tony90RS

If you have a Z28/IROC I'm sure ur car is low enough. But just to share this on my RS I first put on some Suspension Tech lowering springs that were brutal. They lower my car around 2 to 2 1/2 inchs. I felt every bump, every dip was a scrap and I developed hemoriodes,,,. After about 3 months I took them off and they have been collecting dust in the attic for the pass 3 years. I have since purchase and installed some Eibach Pro Kit which for me are just the perfect lowering (about 1 1/2 inch) and the right balance between ride quality and handling.

Z.ROC28

Looks good! Mine is a 91' RS btw (Sorry, I didn't take time to edit my profile ) I think my car looks great but It's just missing something, and i started to think that something was the ride height. Here's a few pics to get an idea of how my car looks now.

compuwiz1937

iTrader: (17)

If you still have stock springs and shocks/struts (it has more to do with the springs though) no matter what you buy (even OEM replacements) the ride will be rougher because those springs are probably very worn out. I put some Suspension Techniques 1" drop springs and KYB shocks/struts on my car and the ride is definately rougher but it seems to handle a lot better.

19doug90

okay i also forgot to mention that a 2" drop is from rs height, remmeber that the irocs and such sit about i think its 1/2 an inch to 1 inch lower from the factory.

You can buy from all sorts of companies but i always hear that what eibach makes is the best.

So if you were to get the eibach pro kit youre not dropping much below a stock ride height its i think a hair more then a 1" drop. another nice thing about the pro kit is our cars from the factory have reverse rake which means the front is higher then the back (fugly) where as the pro kit levels the car out so it sits flat.

past that is the sportlines, so very nice. 2" drop, forward rake on the car, almost no wheel gap, looks freaking unreal. If youre worried about a rough ride i dont know if you would want these.

And people talk about scraping, the only things on my car that ever scrape are the air dam and the exhaust, neither of which i care about touching at all hell the air dam is meant to bend flat backwards. If you take driveways on angles nothing important should touch, unless its a stupid incline/decline, then go find somewhere else to park

Z.ROC28

I knew there was something funny about the front of my car... Ive always noticed it was higher on the front but never really realized it i guess. Do you think it'll look good with those 17"s? Or should I sell them and move up to 18"s?

Tony90RS

You have a clean looking car, all you need is a set of prokit and you will lower that front end about an inch or so and it will look great, you will also benefit with better handling.

Question did you put those hood blister on your RS?

19doug90

the general consensus is that 17's handle better and 18's look better.

the reason 17's handle better is since we have solid rear axel cars, you need a descent bit of sidewall allows for some give back there

and as far as 18's looking better, ill always remember seeing a picture of kandieds car outside of the corvette museum nose to nose with his car having 18's and the other car having 17's and you can see how much better the 18's fill the wheel well. Anything past that is too big imo tho

CrazyHawaiian

You could drop the front 2 inches and keep the same ride quality you have now if you were able to find a set of drop spindles. But they've been discontinued for a while, gotta find em used unless someone starts making them again. Unfortunately for the rear the only way to lower is via the spring, and thats when ride quality usually changes. If you want a very specific ride height I wouldn't waste time with any off-the-shelf spring setup. Save up and go for weight jacks with custom length/rate springs.

compuwiz1937

iTrader: (17)

What are weight jacks?

Z.ROC28

Thanks! I was checkin out the Eibach prokit on summitracing.com, 250 bucks for all 4 springs. I'll probably just buy them, 1.6 drop in front and 1.3 in back.

And yes I bought an aftermarket Z28 hood and bought those blisters used off ebay, it turned out to look better then I thought. I was origionally going to buy an aftermarket 'SS' style hood

19doug90

just so you dont make a mistake

eibach sportlines are 1.3 and 1.6

the pro kit is 1 around


go with the sportlines they look unreal.

DigitalMonarch0

How hard is it to get a standard floor jack under the car after a 1.5" drop?

I have a hard time getting my car in the air now, at stock ride hight. I have to drive up on boards before I can get the jack situated...

Demon355

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Just make your own wood ramps. Drive up onto them, put the jack/stand under.

Sportlines FTW...

compuwiz1937

iTrader: (17)

If you're putting it under the k-member it's not gonna happen with a standard jack (it wouldn't fit before I put my 1" drop on). I bought a $30 low profile jack from Wal-Mart that works perfect.

DigitalMonarch0

I should probably do that, it sounds like the way to go... especially since I really want the sportlines.

Thanks.

Z.ROC28

Yeah sportlines is what I meant, just got the names mixed up. That's probably what I'll buy next... sense my front end is out of alignment and I need new struts... I was going to get my flywheel resurfaced and clutch kit put in but now that I know that costs around $600 that went out the window..

Kandied91z

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2" drop you won't like it if you mean what you just typed. go with the pro-kit and bilstein hd's. if you can afford it you'll love the handle and the car won't make you sick. go cheap and put kyb's or something else and you'll feel like a bobble head.

ScottyRS

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I've got Hotchkis springs and KYB shocks on my '92. The stance looks great and could probably pass for stock to the casual observer. Plus, the ride quality is tolerable. Definitely an improvement over my worn out stock springs.