lowered 4th gen problems
06-08-2017, 06:55 PM
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lowered 4th gen problems so i have a pewter/silver 2000 camaro ss ls1, bmr lowering springs/kit
hooker long tubes, off road y pipe, texas speed muffler. bmr lca's and relocation bracket, panhard bar. sitting on staggered c5 z06 wheels, 255/40/17s and 275/35/18s i dont know how low the car is, or what bmr lowering products are bolted to the car, but i scrape everything lol, the front splitter going into parking lots despite my best even going in diagonally, ive scraped my long tubes many times as well. basically id like to know just how much my car is lowered. so if someone could tell me what the factory ride height is, measured to either fender or the center of the wheel, i can compare it to my car, so i can decide what lowering setup to buy, how much it lowers the car by, as id like to keep my car lowered.
hooker long tubes, off road y pipe, texas speed muffler. bmr lca's and relocation bracket, panhard bar. sitting on staggered c5 z06 wheels, 255/40/17s and 275/35/18s i dont know how low the car is, or what bmr lowering products are bolted to the car, but i scrape everything lol, the front splitter going into parking lots despite my best even going in diagonally, ive scraped my long tubes many times as well. basically id like to know just how much my car is lowered. so if someone could tell me what the factory ride height is, measured to either fender or the center of the wheel, i can compare it to my car, so i can decide what lowering setup to buy, how much it lowers the car by, as id like to keep my car lowered.
06-08-2017, 07:01 PM
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Factory height varies somewhat but in general you'll usually see around 27.5" to 28" measured to the fender. Have you measured your ground clearance at your lowest point like the headers, front splitter, etc?
06-08-2017, 07:19 PM
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so i have a pewter/silver 2000 camaro ss ls1, bmr lowering springs/kit
hooker long tubes, off road y pipe, texas speed muffler. bmr lca's and relocation bracket, panhard bar. sitting on staggered c5 z06 wheels, 255/40/17s and 275/35/18s i dont know how low the car is, or what bmr lowering products are bolted to the car, but i scrape everything lol, the front splitter going into parking lots despite my best even going in diagonally, ive scraped my long tubes many times as well. basically id like to know just how much my car is lowered. so if someone could tell me what the factory ride height is, measured to either fender or the center of the wheel, i can compare it to my car, so i can decide what lowering setup to buy, how much it lowers the car by, as id like to keep my car lowered.
hooker long tubes, off road y pipe, texas speed muffler. bmr lca's and relocation bracket, panhard bar. sitting on staggered c5 z06 wheels, 255/40/17s and 275/35/18s i dont know how low the car is, or what bmr lowering products are bolted to the car, but i scrape everything lol, the front splitter going into parking lots despite my best even going in diagonally, ive scraped my long tubes many times as well. basically id like to know just how much my car is lowered. so if someone could tell me what the factory ride height is, measured to either fender or the center of the wheel, i can compare it to my car, so i can decide what lowering setup to buy, how much it lowers the car by, as id like to keep my car lowered.
Your tires are also more narrow and shorter than what they should be for C5 Z06 wheels. You should be running 265/40 front, 295/35 rear, that would raise the car height a little(and look a ton better).
06-08-2017, 07:24 PM
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I tried to get an answer to this to help me pick a reasonable height to set me new suspension. Since I purchased mine already lowered and it cost me $4500 in damage on a water pipe in construction, I wanted to start at stock. I noticed a lot of cars have the front body line at the top of the rim and the rear body line at the top of the rear tire and this puts the fenders about 28" from the ground. I'm guessing this is the stock height for the top models while the others came even higher. Right now the 28" looks like it will work, but I don't have an exhaust back on it yet. Just long tubes and back to behind the trans with half of my X pipe left.
