i never thought about drop spindles. anyone got them with the stock springs? (looking for a somewhat soft spring for drag racing use without going to a full drag race spring, i want to keep it somewhat streetable.)

wonder what the car would look like with 275/50/15 out back with stock ride height (or alittle lower maybe) with a 205/65/15 up front with a drop spindle (1" or 2"). remember this is a sport coupe i am talking about.

 

thats what i was running v6springs and dropspindles and stock struts now im going to stock spindles and 90/10 drag struts and the same springs.

 

my iroc is lowered like 4.5 inches and i scrape like everywhere i go..its nuts...

but you learn to know where you are driving!!!
trust me...after goin back to the body shop a few times, your wallet starts to hurt...
i took the "air dam" off long time ago...maybe thats why my car heats up? meh..oh well..too late to put it back on iguess...

iroc2nv

 

a good majority of cooling is done by the air dam....

 

Do you still have those drop spindles? I need another set so that I can have my brakes built on them without having my car down forever. Email me at zcarcrazy@juno.com and hopefully we can work a deal here.

 

I am running stock, actually super heavy duty NAPA replacements, with my lowered spindles. I think that if you were running both the spindles and the lowering springs, you'd be having a tough time keeping the air dam off the ground at all. I could be wrong. Here is a pic of my car the day I lowered it. I had yet to take care of the rear springs yet, so it is stock out back and 2" lower in the front.

 

I think maybe the v6 springs are the reason my headers hit so bat with the drop spindles. im sure if i was using v8 springs it might not drag my headers so much,oh well. GTA-SPD im not selling my drop spindles,im thinking about buying a IROC z and putting them on it.

 

Even going up small hills expect it to scape.

You just have to deal with, it or live somwhere else.

 

I dont go anywhere with speed bumps, driveways etc, basically you need to learn to drive where you wont get hurt bud.

 

That's what I started doing, I pretty much have a list in my head of which streets are safe.

 

Here's mine with Sportlines. I scrape my airdam on everything. However, I am VERY careful about trying not to scrape the front spoiler.

 

Wow, what a great looking car.

 

I used eibach's to drop mine

 

Thats another great looking car. Seems like lots of super nice cars are emerging on the boards lately. By the way, what hood is that? Is that a cervinis 1.5" cowl?

 

looks to be an ss hood, however, i think that the cowl would look equally good if not better.

 

Oooh you may be right. From this angle it looks like just a simple low rise cowl hood. I like the looks of it from this angle whatever it is.

 

im looking at everyone cars with sportlines and the rear seems to be high on their cars too, what the hell, i guess im gonna have to spend about 200 to get some ground control ride height adjusters.

 

They shouldn't be. Mine sits very low in the rear.

 

it is an SS hood

 

IIRC, the rubber dampers are supposed to be removed from the rear when using aftermarket spring kits, thats easily another inch drop...which might be the reason some people have a higher rear than others with the same springs.

 

You should be able to keep them in and have a good stance. All the pics that I posted reuse all factory rubber isolators.

 

i took mine out , but in the pic i shouwed they were still in, i took them out and used a piece of heater core hose and then taped them on also , it lowered it about an 1/8 inch , i cant wait to see if the car drops any more , i only had them on for about 200 or less miles last year , i hope it goes down a little more .

 

the rear of mine sits pretty low with the sportlines cause i left out the rear spring isolators

 

My car sits 0.5 to 1.0 inches higher on the driver's side! That may not sound like much to some, but it is a HUGE dofference to me. It drives me nuts. I am not sure if I did something wrong when I installed the springs or what? I think I am going to try to swap the swpring around to see if that levels things out a bit.

I think that I will also remove the spring insulators. Has anyone noticed any extra noise when removing the insulators? I figured there may be some nose after doing that since there will be a metal spring in a metal housing.

 

9T1, I have the same problem. My drivers side is higher, but I'm convinced it is due to the springs and not the install. I would advise against taking out the insulators, that would be bad.

 

Needs to be a tad lower. still a little to much gap between the Fender and tire
OLD PIC..


Now This is low.... Just a messin around Photo. I had to pull the springs for a bit. To move my convertable around.

This is no motor no springs




Its a work in progress. just need to find time to finish D/Aing it to paint it. and put my 92 front clip gfx back on.

 

damn tpi383 that looks awesome!!!!!

bet the exhaust would drag the ground all the time tho lol.

all these lowered cars lok awesome i think im goin to do my sport coupe now!!!

you guys that lowered em and are settin kinda level in front and back did u lower it on all four corners?
because i want mine level or maybe a lil tiny bit more in front then rear.

would cuttin coils work all way round i assume it would.
i have to figure out whether its my shocks and or coils that need changed in mine tho 1st.

one other ? u use stock shocks or have to buy lowered shocks for em w/ a half coil cut or a 1 to 1 and half inch drop springs on all 4 corners?

 

i wouldn't suggest cutting the coils if one could avoid it, it really messes with the spring rate.

 

I cut the rears in my GTA, and it rides fine. I cut the fronts in my old 82, and it rode fine too. I still wouldn't suggest it though.
All it takes is a 1/4 coil too much and bam, your sitting on the bump stops. Don't ask how I know this... The best way to go is with spindles, but since those are as hard to find as an honest politician, I'd go with springs. For like $200 you can get a good set of four. I only cut my rears to figure out where I wanted it, now I'm going to buy some springs and do it right. As for the shock question, stock shocks & struts will work just fine. I don't even think they make "lowered" struts for our cars.

 

yep im with you.......

I cut a 1/2 of a coil off my dropzone lowering frt springs and its very close to sitting on the bump stops..but then again my suspension travel is very minamal too but still 1/4 of a coil too much would make a good spring be an expencive peice of junk metal rod ahahah.

Theres a guy here with a blue iroc forget his id name but his name is Joe....and he once ran cut stockers on his iroc and it rode harsh he said and now that he runs proper lowering springs he thinks cutting stockers really sucks.

And yes mw66nova is right cutting a spring makes the spring rate stiffer.

 

i installed the hotchkis springs on mine, and i also put new struts on the front when i changed the springs, its about an inch lower, should sit a little lower once everything settles. mine drags when i pull in my driveway, but my driveways steep. i have to be careful not to drag the front spoiler, so i cant really go any lower. i think it looks ok now, i just wanted some of that gap gone between the fenders and tire.

 

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hey, i dont have my roc yet (going next weekend), but i was wondering if anyone threw up the idea of an airbag suspension. this way if you know ur going up a driveway or something low you can raise the car up a few inches, so u don't hit. i don't know much about airbags thou, i dont know what you would have to do to get them to fit a 3rd gen. what do you guys think, would that be good or *****?

albert III

 

whooops didnt know i cant bash.... sorry

 

Airbags will give the smoothest ride, but once you lower these cars, you really only have a little bit to play with. You will need to get the price for the bags, tank, motor, and switches. This will be a big factor to see if it is even worth the money to put them in. Springs on average are around $160, the average bagging will cost about $1200-$1300.