Too low in the front compared to the rear maybe drop the rear more or add 1/2 a coil up front just my but all in all a lot better than stock

 

throw some long tubes on there and get a vid of you driving down the street at night. that would be hella cool! :lala:

 

haha... spark, spark, spark...

...wish my LT's tucked up higher, the s-bends and glasspacks love to play tag w/ the pavement

brandon

 

m pics aint workin fer me jus res X! i wanna see i wanna see lol

 

I'm putting on some shorties, whadda ya think? Will they scrape?

 

i cant see how low youre car is, cause the pics are down or sumthin, but i cut about 1-1 1/2 coils off my front, and i have edelbrock TES headers and they dont scrape too bad... but they do

 

How can they scrape, shorties are not even close to the lowest thing on the car.

 

trust me they are, with the 3" y pipe, and the clamps they do, but like i said, not horribly, just every once in a while, before i re positioned one of the clamps, it used to scrape all the time

 

Your headers can't scrape, the oil pan and k-member are lower.

 

So you y-pipe is hitting, not your headers?

 

if i get a chance tomorrow ill take a couple orf pics to show you that they infact do... but its not horrible, but with the way the roads are around here, and the angle i have to go over them the y pipe scrapes...

 

sry about not clarifying that but yes the ypipe scrapes not the "headers"

 

nidyanazo

How much did you cut off of the front springs?

 

This much

 

Holy **** thats alot!

 

doesnt that take away from the integrity of the spring??

 

What does that mean? A spring is just a force producing or absorbing device, nothing more, nothing less.

 

You weren't playin' around!

 

that is soo sweet yes...soo glad to see you slammed it..pretty close to mine actually..you just need abit lower profile tire and it would be close...lower the back another .5 or 1' and it would look really good..just watch out for the bump stops...nothing a grinder wont take care of tho..good job

 

aren't the bumpstops there to prevent damage caused by suspension travel? without them you are likely to run the risk of serious injury to the car, no?

 

You don't get rid of them, you just trim them down and reshape them abit.

 

ya what he said^

just take like alil off just enough to keep it safe but not let your suspension bottom out on ever bump possible

 

Well thank you Slammed_Z hmmmm...when I finished the job, I drove down the most bumpy alley I knew. I heard the occational loud "bump" and wondered about it, but never put it togeather that was the "BUMP STOPS" working Maybe I'll trim them just a tad.....hmmmmmm.......

 

i guess what i am asking is does it affect how the spring performs. i remember reading alot about avoiding heat and springs because it warps, takes away the "effectiveness" of the spring. i was just wondering if cutting that much off is bad. i heard of cutting a coil but not two.

 

You cut with an angle grinder, or whatever you want with a hight speed cutoff disk. The shorter the spring gets, the stiffer it becomes. The more coils you cut the lower you car sits, and the stiffer the ride becomes.

 

Put the down the sawzall and slowly step away!










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WOW you should have seen the look on my face when I seen that pic...

The car looks good but, $&#@ I dont think I have the ba**z to do that yet.

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after lowering my car i have problems with my tire hitting the passenger side wheel well. i bought the adjustable panhard bar from spohn and i still cant seem to get it to stop hitting. the car is only lowered 2"( that was my over all measurement). other than my wheel offset being off i can think of anything else that could do it. is there a way to fix this without buying new wheels i saw some pretty slammed cars on this thread figured someone might have had the same problem as me

 

OMG first off thats a lot of spring you cut. second congrats!! that looks amazing. when i decide to set up to some 18's im going to take the angle grinder to my springs again and drop another coil. i bet your air dam and the piece under the car for the radiator scrapes while driving on flat pavement!!! :lala:

 

Thanks for the complements, I am really happy with the quality of the ride. You can "feel" the road so much more now. I wanted the rear up a little more than the front, I think weight will transfer better like that. Is that correct?

 

nidyanazo on a level area measure the bottom of the front piece in the direct middle to the ground i wanna see how close you are to mine

 

theoretically it will do better for the weight transfer i like the rake look and could careless about the weight transfer on the elco as i have no weight back there anyway and i like to go sideways from 2nd to third

 

I'm going to try and post a pic of mine, i just shot it and it's dark but u can get the idea. and i measured my front nose to the ground also, I'm surious to see what your guys is.

 

heres a pic of mine, too dark to get a good look, ill try to get some tomorrow, i measured my front nose also, curious to see what yours are

 

at the very middle of mine its 4'

 

mine is 4.25, my nose is lower than it should be i think, just a hair tho

 

i will get some better ones tomorrow. im in the process of my body work and i cant get rid of the gap between the hood and the front nose, the fenders line up with the hood and the bumper lines up with the fenders but the hood wont line up with the nose, so im going to get a new one here shortly

 

wow that one was bad, i also have a larger front ground effect than you, you have the shorter pre 91 style which is smaller, but yours is def lower, but all mine is are springs, not cut

 

what lowering springs do you have to make it sit that low?

 

DropZone, 1.75" front and back, $99 shipped brand new from ebay. i like em a lot

 

I'm flying out to Ft. Lauderdale an a few hours, but I'll get the front height mesurement when I get back monday. I also need to get a ruler

 

they sais 1.75" drop, but it was more like 2.5-3" drop. huge diff in spring size. you guys think a set of 18x9.5" Zr1s will fit ok?

 

anyone think ill have any problems with a 20x8.5" rim? front and back? Im not sure if they have a 18 or a 40 offset, its one or the other. I'd just need the spacers to make em fit.

 

Damnit I still don't have a ruler, but it looks like ~3-4" (Center of bumper from the ground)

 

In no way do I wish to sound like a$$ , but do you not realize that you are going to thrash that car with the springs like that?

Just spend the $ and buy some bags at least....

Just my opinion


Jason

 

Here...looks about the same as no springs...

https://www.thirdgen.org/techbb2/sho...hreadid=168925

Something I did just for fun, never would have tried to drive it like that though.


Jason

 

mines already that low...i just probably got alil more spring but i have lower profile tires

 

Do you have any bent wheels yet slammed? Or are the tires holding up for you?

 

there still fine...but my car is in storage for winter..so i only used the tires for 2 weeks..i basically sold the tires...getting 225 35 soon...should be alot better..still small but not dangerously small

 

hey where can new bump stops be goten at.