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Old Aug 26, 2012 | 09:04 PM
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lowered but no result

hello, i lowered my 92 camaro with drop zone springs 1.75 drop all the way around. i lowered the rear first and compared the hight difference and my new springs were clearly shorter i installed them and put the wheels back on and it isn't any lower in the rear?!?!?! help!!!! i then moved to the front and lowerd them and put the wheels back on and it
looks great it is clearly 1.75" lower. what could i have done wrong on the rear????
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Old Aug 26, 2012 | 09:27 PM
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Re: lowered but no result

let em settle. give em a month of driving and they will go down. although i have heard shaky things about drop zone
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Old Aug 26, 2012 | 09:28 PM
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Re: lowered but no result

you could also loosen your lower control arm bolts to take and resistance out from those
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Old Aug 26, 2012 | 09:33 PM
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Re: lowered but no result

I think your old rear springs are just old and weak so the car was sitting lower than it originally did back in 1992. Your old springs are longer but weaker so they compress down to the height of the lowered spring.
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Old Aug 26, 2012 | 10:02 PM
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Re: lowered but no result

If the springs you took out were shorter, it sounds like you either had lowering springs in already, or someone cut the springs previously. Are you sure you indexed them properly?
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