I have come to the conclusion that being low sucks
#32
Whoa calm down man, if you only knew what I had to drive on everyday you wouldn't say that. I bottom out at stock height and that is doing my best to swerve around all of them.
#33
Oh believe me I know haha. My friend has a decked out Jeep Rubicon. Raised with the offroad tires and all that fun stuff. He let me drive it a couple times.. and holy ****.. if I had to drive that for like an hour i'd **** myself. Sooo ridiculously shakey and noisy. It was a bit windy that day too so the car was like moving from side to side on it's own
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The last car I had was an older Lexus. Like a 1999 ES300
#34
First off, you guys with super low drops thinking your cars can handle are smoking the crack pipe
A properly set up suspension needs adequate wheel travel which is something most of these slammed rides aren't going to have. A G sedan on Z/coupe springs and Z shocks would run circles around a G slammed on coilovers on an auto-x course. Big drops also screw up the roll center, and swaybar/suspension geomerty. Without adeaquate wheel travel, the tires will break loose easier and handling limits will be lower. Roll is not entirely a bad thing.
I don't know what equals "low" in everyone's book. I'm on Z/coupe springs and Z shocks. There's about an 1" of gap at all four corners with my 225/45R18 F and 245/40R18 setup. When I'm in the car, the gap shrinks almost .5". For me, that's plenty low and looks damn good without the retarded look of tucking the tires into the fender. I don't scrap or bottom out, and the car is killer on the auto-x. My only complaint is since the springs are linear which means they're rather stiff and crash over frost heaved pavement. However, I'd much rather have linear rate springs than progressive rate like most aftermarket springs.
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I don't know what equals "low" in everyone's book. I'm on Z/coupe springs and Z shocks. There's about an 1" of gap at all four corners with my 225/45R18 F and 245/40R18 setup. When I'm in the car, the gap shrinks almost .5". For me, that's plenty low and looks damn good without the retarded look of tucking the tires into the fender. I don't scrap or bottom out, and the car is killer on the auto-x. My only complaint is since the springs are linear which means they're rather stiff and crash over frost heaved pavement. However, I'd much rather have linear rate springs than progressive rate like most aftermarket springs.
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#37
First off, you guys with super low drops thinking your cars can handle are smoking the crack pipe
A properly set up suspension needs adequate wheel travel which is something most of these slammed rides aren't going to have. A G sedan on Z/coupe springs and Z shocks would run circles around a G slammed on coilovers on an auto-x course. Big drops also screw up the roll center, and swaybar/suspension geomerty. Without adeaquate wheel travel, the tires will break loose easier and handling limits will be lower. Roll is not entirely a bad thing.
I don't know what equals "low" in everyone's book. I'm on Z/coupe springs and Z shocks. There's about an 1" of gap at all four corners with my 225/45R18 F and 245/40R18 setup. When I'm in the car, the gap shrinks almost .5". For me, that's plenty low and looks damn good without the retarded look of tucking the tires into the fender. I don't scrap or bottom out, and the car is killer on the auto-x. My only complaint is since the springs are linear which means they're rather stiff and crash over frost heaved pavement. However, I'd much rather have linear rate springs than progressive rate like most aftermarket springs.
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I don't know what equals "low" in everyone's book. I'm on Z/coupe springs and Z shocks. There's about an 1" of gap at all four corners with my 225/45R18 F and 245/40R18 setup. When I'm in the car, the gap shrinks almost .5". For me, that's plenty low and looks damn good without the retarded look of tucking the tires into the fender. I don't scrap or bottom out, and the car is killer on the auto-x. My only complaint is since the springs are linear which means they're rather stiff and crash over frost heaved pavement. However, I'd much rather have linear rate springs than progressive rate like most aftermarket springs.
I personally am raising it up to find the right balance of looks and proper alignment. Next year ill slam a S13 Vert for looks!
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#39
The whole autocross example is BS in my opinion. Not that it's not true, but how many people actually autocross or track their car on this forum? Over 95% I would say drive it just to drive, not for autocrossing or tracking, so that's really not a relevant point. You can drive around slammed or OEM height and if you drive "normally" then it won't make a difference about handling.
#40
I like how mine sits on the Z/G combo; my fender heights are almost exactly the same on all four corners and the gaps are reasonable. No camber issues, the car handles very well and rides fine. I need to exorcise some creaks but all in good time. I enjoy driving my car and don't want to have to worry about bottoming out on a mouse-turd.
#43
First off, you guys with super low drops thinking your cars can handle are smoking the crack pipe
A properly set up suspension needs adequate wheel travel which is something most of these slammed rides aren't going to have. A G sedan on Z/coupe springs and Z shocks would run circles around a G slammed on coilovers on an auto-x course. Big drops also screw up the roll center, and swaybar/suspension geomerty. Without adeaquate wheel travel, the tires will break loose easier and handling limits will be lower. Roll is not entirely a bad thing.
I don't know what equals "low" in everyone's book. I'm on Z/coupe springs and Z shocks. There's about an 1" of gap at all four corners with my 225/45R18 F and 245/40R18 setup. When I'm in the car, the gap shrinks almost .5". For me, that's plenty low and looks damn good without the retarded look of tucking the tires into the fender. I don't scrap or bottom out, and the car is killer on the auto-x. My only complaint is since the springs are linear which means they're rather stiff and crash over frost heaved pavement. However, I'd much rather have linear rate springs than progressive rate like most aftermarket springs.
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I don't know what equals "low" in everyone's book. I'm on Z/coupe springs and Z shocks. There's about an 1" of gap at all four corners with my 225/45R18 F and 245/40R18 setup. When I'm in the car, the gap shrinks almost .5". For me, that's plenty low and looks damn good without the retarded look of tucking the tires into the fender. I don't scrap or bottom out, and the car is killer on the auto-x. My only complaint is since the springs are linear which means they're rather stiff and crash over frost heaved pavement. However, I'd much rather have linear rate springs than progressive rate like most aftermarket springs.
Low for me equals little to no wheel gap between the tire and the fender. Slammed is tucking tire and looks soooo proper when done right.
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#44
The whole autocross example is BS in my opinion. Not that it's not true, but how many people actually autocross or track their car on this forum? Over 95% I would say drive it just to drive, not for autocrossing or tracking, so that's really not a relevant point. You can drive around slammed or OEM height and if you drive "normally" then it won't make a difference about handling.
I guess I'm not one to compromise ride, handling, and car damage for a look. Same goes for performance. I'm not going to have an overly loud exhaust for 5whp. Been there, done that with both. It's not worth it. However, you can get 80-90% of the look, performance, etc. without major compromises.
I'll end my posting by saying there is no way I could ever drive/own a stock ride height G
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