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Old 05-22-2008, 12:23 PM
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What in the heck could be wrong to make my car sit so weird? I'm getting a wheel alignment Tues. by and the guy is going to look at it and try and figure it out. I put my good rims and tires on it and took some measurements. I measured them in my garage from the ground to the top of the wheel well. I don't have the measurements for my stock rims and tires but I'm going to put them back on prolly this weekend and post up those measurements.

Front Left - 27 1/8 in.
Front Right - 27 3/16 in.
Rear Left - 27 in.
Rear Right - 26 3/4 in.

I have no clue why this would be and the right side the front is higher by 7/16 in. The 2nd pic is of the left rear rim and the 5th pic is of the right rear rim. O and my friend as the same suspension setup with different rims and tires and I have the adjustable LCA's and he has the non adjustable and he has Bilstein HD shocks and I have KYB AGX Adjustables because the Bilstein's are on nationwide backorder. And his measurements were 26 5/8 in. for the front and the rears were 27 1/8 in. on both sides.
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Old 05-22-2008, 01:06 PM
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Have you taken it for a good ride and worked the suspension thoroughly? Maybe try some slalom type moves and re-check to make sure everything is seated correctly.
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typical gansta lean, just put a spacer in the passenger side rear to even it out. I believe it has something to do with gm doing a shitty job welding the spring perches on the rearend
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When you lower your car, your alignment goes all fucked. If the tires are sitting improperly, then that will affect their height and angle.
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Ya hopefully when I get my wheel alignment on Tues. the guy is a suspension specialist and hopefully he can fix how it sits and that what someone told me about the tires sitting improperly and I was already planning on getting an alignment on Tues.
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no matter how it is sitting its still bad ***!!! Nice car!!! I love it.

Glad i got my Bilsteins last year
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love those rims, who cares about hte way it sits. haha. that happened with my dads 69, when you did it did you keep it loose, lower the car back on the ground and then tighten everything up? if not they try doing that, lift it, loosen it, put it back on the ground then tighten it.

most of the time that will let the suspension settle down




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