Before & after pics Strano springs on classic snowflakes
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Before & after pics Strano springs on classic snowflakes It's been a marathon week. My wife is glad it's over. In addition to the 1" drop, I cleaned all the brake dust off the inside of wheels, painted the calipers red,
and added secondskin sound dampener from the doors all the way back to the trunk. Enough for now. Just want to enjoy driving it.
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and added secondskin sound dampener from the doors all the way back to the trunk. Enough for now. Just want to enjoy driving it.
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Well you got much more than a 1" drop in the back....let me guess, prokit?
Mine looks the same with the stance all effed up.
But looks good at least you got ride of the monster truck ride height. How Long did it take you to put dynamat in/whatever else u used?
Mine looks the same with the stance all effed up.
But looks good at least you got ride of the monster truck ride height. How Long did it take you to put dynamat in/whatever else u used?
In the title bro, Strano springs.
i'd put the isolators back in the rear, add the heater hose mod, or cut the front springs.....it's lower in the back than in the front.....it LOOKS like a car with the prokit.....nevermind, don't cut the strano's.....put your stock rear springs back in and trim them down until the stance is perfect.....just my .02
i'd put the isolators back in the rear, add the heater hose mod, or cut the front springs.....it's lower in the back than in the front.....it LOOKS like a car with the prokit.....nevermind, don't cut the strano's.....put your stock rear springs back in and trim them down until the stance is perfect.....just my .02
Give it a few miles, the fronts could settle some. Also, it's possible that the photo angles are making it look lower in the rear.
Other possibility....do you have a lot of weight in the trunk?
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yea im curious as to why it sags so much in the rear did you remove the rubber spring isolator in the rear?\
looks good btw
looks good btw
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Good call! The rear dropped another 1/4 " after I added 50lbs of sound dampening, evenly distributed from the rear seats & sailpanels to the trunk.
Now instead of 1/4" higher in front, it's 1/2 " higher. (Without a driver... maybe it evens out with my 200lbs in the front seat
How Long did it take you to put dynamat in/whatever else u used?
.put your stock rear springs back in and trim them down until the stance is perfect.....just my .02
I like it, you always should do suspension first & then decide on the wheels.
When I bought the car new in '02 I immediately thought about wider tires & rims, but I found that for the stock power, the 245s were plenty enough rubber. And I liked (still do) the snowflakes. Now that I'm up near 400rwhp (since Nov.) I could probably use more rubber...but then I'd be putting more load on my stock differential
Looks good! I like those exhaust tips.
Thanks for the feedback guys.
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ps..I took one off to paint it, then decided it wasn't worth the hassle, and just masked the rest. It worked fine.
i'd put the isolators back in the rear, add the heater hose mod, or cut the front springs.....it's lower in the back than in the front.....it LOOKS like a car with the prokit.....nevermind, don't cut the strano's.....put your stock rear springs back in and trim them down until the stance is perfect.....just my .02
Mine sits like that with the rear isolators still in there. Its been that way for over 6 months now and plenty of miles on it. I might add the heater hose mod to lift the rear a bit or re-install the springs/shocks when i do more front suspension mods and see if that helps drop the front any. If not, maybe swap out the fronts for BMR's springs. I just want the fronts to drop just a tad bit more and ill be happy.
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Now that I'm up near 400rwhp, I'm finally reaching the limitations of my 245/50/16 GSD3s when I accelerate with gusto... So I will be looking at wider rims. ie... what WAS just a cosmetic/fashion issue that I didn't want to spend money on, has become a performance issue.
The "saggy bum" issue is, in my opinion, much to do about nothing, Measure the high point of the wheel wells to the ground, and then measure and subtract the distance of the line of the rocker panels to the ground, and you will see that the front wheel well is 1/2" taller than the rear. I actually have only 1/4" net "sag" in the back prob due to >50lbs of sound dampening I put from behind the seats to the trunk.
I thought changing springs would get rid of the saggy bum look on my car too, it didn't, I guess my car is destined to drag its' butt no matter what...