I'm gonna get some eibachs but i'm afraid the drop will make me scrape the bumper everytime im on an incline. Is anyone having this problem?

 

i would like to know too, the pro kit is only 1 inch though .. correct me if im wrong, i have a bad time with potholes already

 

pro kit is one inch and sport line is 1.6 on the front and 1.3 in the back i think

 

I found a good price for the pro kit and an adjustable panhard bar on Ebay. I just ordered them last night. here is the link to the thread I started.

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um , go with the sportlines, i have them and im glad i got them . I didnt want to go with the pro kit that it wouldnt be enought of a drop. The sportlines look really good and give it the stance that the car shoulda had from the factory.

 

What about scraping and do you have pictures of what the car looks like now?

 

doesn't the back look lifted?

 

worn out springs on a high mileage car will sit as they are with a pro-kit. if you want the car to look lowered go with sportlines but accept that you have to learn how to drive. i hardly scrape anything with the car sitting on the ground but you need to learn how to drive that way.

 

like how? i know going up and down inclined garages scrapes the hell out of it no matter how slow i do it

 

damn i really like the way your car sits nolanr0413, but im scared that i will be hitting my wheelwell, do your tires hit yours? how does the car drive, id hate to mess up the way it handles, i only want improvement on handling not so much on looks , id hate to have my car ride rougher then what it does

 

if you have factory wheels at spec you would have some serious issues hitting fenders with them.

 

my wheels dont hit yet. but i did order some 9.5 inch rims for the rear, so i may have a rubbing issue, but ill see, The reason the rear looks lifted is that I have a chrysler rear end and the axle tubes are bigger than the stock ones, which raised the points up a little bit. Im gonna cut some of the coil off when i get the other rims and see how it looks. I like how it handles now. It seems to be better. When you change the springs your gonna need an adjustable panhard bar and lower control arm relocators and u should bugdet some new shocks and struts.

 

I am so lost right now. You're saying my tires are gonna hit and rubb?
I guess all i want to know what size wheels are the biggest i can get without having any rubbing or hitting issues cause i'd like some 17/18s don't know how thick though.

 

this is what i got now. thinking about taking that nasty stripe off

 

I have the prokit and like Kandied said, they ride at about the same height as my old, worn out springs did. They handle pretty well, and I haven't had any issues with scraping.

 

I just ordered a pro kit from ebay and an adjustable Panhard bar too. check out the hyper link to the thread with the the product.
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If you are already scraping, lowering won't help

You drive a lowered car differently then you drive a stock height car, if you don't make the change in driving behavior, there will be issues.....

 

To get up your driveway with out the scrape, you have to go at an angle until all 4 tires are on the incline, trust me. I lowered the front with BellTech's (2 full inches) and the rear with sportlines for a 93 (about 1.75 inches) and I never scrape anything except the air dam. I had tire rub issues at first, but after a set of shocks & struts and an alignment, I hevent rubbed once. If you don't want to seriously adjust your driving, don't lower it. It's a pain in the ***, and I get the finger alot, for railroad tracks, dips, speed bumps, driveways, etc... Here's mine.

By the way, the rear in this pic is before the rear springs. I'll get pics of how it is now next time I wash it.

 

GTA-SPD, i think you have the lowest thirdgen trans am , sorry gta i have ever seen , Everytime i see that pic i feel for you . But i wish i had a set of those lowering spindles ,b/c then id love it just as much as yours.

 

with the proper back spacing 20" wheels are the largest that can be fit on our cars with the proper 26" tall dia. tire. as far as width depending on what size tire and rim you go 8" wide up front and 9.5-10" wide out back is about as wide as you would want to go without rubbing or having to modify things..........again this is if you have the right offset/backspacing.


what i was saying is if you are running the stock wheels and stock correct backspacing you should not come close to hitting the fenders at all, if you are coming close you have a problem. my wheels are at stock edge spec and i can set the car on the ground before they rub anything.

 

pics.

specificly, pics of your front struts.

 

few days....

 

after we have pics, am i allowed to call up QA1 and ask if we can buy struts NOW?

 

Thanks for the compliment but don't sweat calling it a Trans Am, it is. Call it a GTA, Trans Am, Firebird, Camaro, Iroc, whatever. I call it my "Trash Can" so I'm thinking anything short of calling it a Pinto or a Bug is ok. When I first lowered it I had all kinds of issues but now, after driving it for almost 2 years like that, it is second nature to me. I look pretty retarded slowing down to a crawl at dips in my Z71 Pickup, but by the time I remember I don't have to, I'm almost stopped anyway. I put a new air dam on it every year because it does drag a lot (it don't drag hard, just often) and if it breaks off, overheating quickly follows. Also so I don't have a ghetto looking piece of black plastic dangling from the front of my car. I found a guy on eBay that sells NEW GM air dams for $30, so I keep a couple on hand.
I was reading in a mag about 2 months ago and think I may have found a company that has the spindles, the catch is you have to buy their brake kit too. Stainless Steel Brakes lists a brake kit for our cars built on a lowereing spindle, but I can't get a straight answer out of them for sure. I am on the lookout for another set of these spindles so I have a spare set, just in case.

 

you want to see low im going to see if i take a pic of a vert camaro i see around my house, i dont even know how he can drive around the city in that thing, half the time i see him in east new york, where the streets look like a war took place there

 

i have sportlines in my floor irght now that i got for $20, you guys paid way too darn much.

 

WHAT! where at??

 

i was thinking 18x8 both front and back i dont know what kind of tire size though

 

to be honest i don't see that happening for quite some time....when i know i'll let others know.

 

my boy's brother sold them to me. They were on his 91Z

 

i have sportlines


i have an odd question or comment

what would cause a car to be 1 inch lower on the entire passenger side of the car?

my entire passenger side of the car sits about .75 inches lower and causes my passenger rear wheel to scrap bad.

what the hell could be the problem with that? and as far as i can see.. the springs look to be seated correctly.

 

My pro kit has been on for a month now and I love it. Even with my original 210,000KM springs, the eibachs still came down an inch in the front and around half an inch in the back...

 

I opted for the Pro Kit, I have to go over speed bumps & driveways @ an angle for it not to scrape.

 

in reality that's the car though...throw some lt headers on the car and you'll have to do it at stock height. no matter what height your car is at you should take extra caution with our cars to go in on angles as it's better.

 

you know my pass side also sits a little lower then my driver side, but then again i havent changed my springs, maybe there not setting all at once

 

you got something used from a friend, of course you wouldnt pay much. if you got them new for that price then it would matter a little more

 

i'm gonna get them looking like new. you wont even be able to tell they are used.

 

didnt mean to come off like a d*ck, you said in another thread there low mileage so no biggy, you scored on em. i just meant it doesnt hold any real value to tell others they got a bad deal unless youre just trying to brag :nono:

 

well if they search around they might find used ones a lot cheaper, you never know.

If i sound stupid i appoligize i just got off a 6 hour phone convo with thewoman, so i might be a little stupid right now.

 

It doesnt matter if your gonna be able to make them look like new. That doesnt change the fact that they are used.

 

i have 17inch rims and dropped it with the pro-kit and i love the stance. I don't have any ground clearance issue . Heres a pic of my rims with stock springs

 

heres a pic with my pro-kit

 

I'm glad I got a pro kit then. PHAT89, your ta looks awesome with it. I should get mine tuesday

 

true but worn springs give a muchy jello like ride.... i know my complete suspension is dead

oh and about having hedders... i have hooker supercomp fulls and even with my crappy suspension i only bash em when i go over unreasonably tall speed bumps where even if i crawl over them my front end goes up over and bounces with the bad fronts struts and shocks....

 

i have sportlines, the stance is perfect...

 

some inclines ur gunna scrape no matter what but most up to really steep one you can avoid scraping by going up the at an angle

 

Here is a good look at the drop I got with the sportlines, I had alot of wheel gap..
( Also went from 15"s to 16"s)
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