What do you think is the reasoning behind the g35x riding higher than the sedan? Is it because they predicted this model would be in the snow or offroading or something and would need the crazy clearance?

 

Are you lost?

 

....LOL :facepalm:

 

yeah! Are you lost?

 

Welcome to the forums.

 

guys let off he is obviously new and there is no reason to treat him like a honda owner(and no reason to act like you are on the bmw m3 forum)
hell id like to know the answer myself myself

 

 

wow you guys are nice...anyways welcome to the forum. I have an 05 G35x and the ride height of the X is higher than most AWD sedans, and I don't know why, but I'm not going to bother lowering it anytime soon.

 

I had mine lowered on Eibach Pro kit springs and SPC camber kit, and it looked good. It was about a 1.5" drop. However, it was a pain scraping all the time and the ride was not as smooth as stock, so I recently switched everything back to stock and I love it.

The wheel wells are cut high, which is the main reason it looks so high. I think as far as how high the actual car is off the ground, it's not super high up, considering how long wheel-based the G is. The longer wheel based a car is, the higher it needs to be to take mounds and other things. The G has the 'front-midship' design which pushes the engine closer to the middle and the wheels are as far up front and back as they can be for handling.

Anyway... I liked the look of it dropped, but I feel like I can drive my car so much harder now that its stock. The suspension needs that extra bit of travel to work properly and the lowered setups just lack this.

 

I think the ride quality is very important for a car and stock suspension is definately the best way to go especially for AWD models. People lower it so it would look more aggressive, or they like the hard **** vibration over bumps on lowered cars.

 

Are you lost?

 

Not gonna lie, im kind of excited to put my stock springs back in this fall along with my stock wheels and enjoy the plush ride again LOL that and i'll be beasting through snow lol

 

For ground clearance in the snow. The higher you are, the less likely of hanging up when trying to navigate deep snow.


I dunno, I look at my 06x and it doesn't look any higher than a rwd sedan. Then again 95% of all sedans here are awd so it looks normal to me

 

+1 on both.

it doesn't look all that hight even wheel gap isn't crazy my stock 4th gen maxima had crazy wheel gap. I had to lower it 1.2 inches to make it look like my AWD G