Best Way to Drop Ride Height?
Best Way to Drop Ride Height? What is the best way to get a moderate drop in ride height without brutally sacrificing weight transfer? Is cutting the springs a viable option?
Front is easy, go with a qa1 shock or the like, and just adjust the preload.
The rear, you can pull the spring isolaters and put some hose over the spring, that will get ya an inch or so.
If you have access to a big table sander, you can take the rear springs and "surface" them, turning them as you do it on both sides and pull about another 3/4 of an inch off that way as well. Pita, but it works good and the springs sit on the car and the rear good afterwards.
The rear, you can pull the spring isolaters and put some hose over the spring, that will get ya an inch or so.
If you have access to a big table sander, you can take the rear springs and "surface" them, turning them as you do it on both sides and pull about another 3/4 of an inch off that way as well. Pita, but it works good and the springs sit on the car and the rear good afterwards.
Thanks for the input guys...
Well, the thing here is I like to run the car with the 17" ZR1s mostly and keep the sleeper look going, but when I DO go to the track I dont want to be stiff as a board and just spin either... Its not a full on drag car by any means, just figured you guys could give the best advice in this area... Thanks!
Well, the thing here is I like to run the car with the 17" ZR1s mostly and keep the sleeper look going, but when I DO go to the track I dont want to be stiff as a board and just spin either... Its not a full on drag car by any means, just figured you guys could give the best advice in this area... Thanks!
if the back is squatting your doing it wrong...the only thing you want moving is the front comming up slightly...dont worry about weight transfer at all...just get good suspension pieces
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you wouldn't want the rear of the car to be able to sqat down ? ie ...soft springs ?
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Verdad Gallardo The rear shouldn't move any more then it absolutely has to in order to maintain traction. generally, squatting is lost energy... when on an absolutely terrible track, you may need it to squat to get/maintain traction, but as a general rule, the rear should be seperating from the body leaving the line, planting the tire, not the back of the car dropping to get the weight on them.
So, I wonder if the springs in my car, originally a v6 car, are softer than what came in a LT1 car?
Ive read of guys cutting a coil off the bottom of a stock spring to lower the car ... is this a good or bad idea as far as traction goes?
Ive read of guys cutting a coil off the bottom of a stock spring to lower the car ... is this a good or bad idea as far as traction goes?
I don't like doing that, the spring doesn't sit on the housing right, it changes the spring rate (stiffer because each coil now has to move more for the same amount of travel)
Adjustable spring perches, and a regular coil spring is the right way to go about it.
Adjustable spring perches, and a regular coil spring is the right way to go about it.
