rayvendawn

I just bought this 02 ws6 and at it's lowest point on the side molding it's 5 inches from the ground. It constantly scrapes the ground and I have to be sooooooooo careful on speed bumps. I thought at first that it was lowered but I have recently been hearing some sqeeking/creeking sounds and I thought it might be the shocks/struts...whatever these cars have.
Could it have been lowered this much just by bad shocks/struts?

R1ch

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Idk, I saw a Pewter TA when I was in Gainesville about the same height as yours on the same wheels, I thought it looked really good.

sroach20

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mines sitting around 5" from the ground on good shocks and springs. i think ive got 2,000 on the shocks and springs.

rayvendawn

btw it's REALLY bouncy, does it occur when a car is lowered or not?

tpain

looks like its lowered to me..... doesnt have the 4x4 look.

Cobra2WS6

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Thats without a doubt lowered... My car tends to scrape as well, but i deal with it, i like the look

rk_2000_Z/28

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Yeah that's lowered. And so many times people just swap the springs out and call it done. That might explain the rough ride you described in post#4.

You'll get used to driving it if you give it time. You just need to adjust your driving in certain areas that you know have potwholes, bumbs, dips, etc.

JD_AMG

Your car is definitely lowered, and no, bouncing is an indication of bad shocks, not lowering. You are probably on stock shocks, which struggle enough with the stock springs, its even worse when lowered.
If you don't like scraping, but want to stay lowered I would suggest looking into Strano springs. They offer a 1.2" drop and are built, tried and tested specifically for handling. For shocks look into revalved bilstiens from stranoparts.com or Koni SA shocks, those are both the cheapest shocks capable of dampening a lowered fbody, any cheaper ones will still be bouncy, or blow out eventually.

bryan04h

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get those most likely stock shocks out of there...my friend dropped his car with eibach pro-kit like mine but he didn't swap out his shocks...he is still rolling on stock shocks and they are horrible!!!

09CPTN

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I'm putting KYB AGX shocks with the eibach prokit springs into my car. ANyone have experience with these shocks?

bryan04h

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i have them on my accord and they are okay for that purpose but for this car...not so much would be the short way of saying it

https://ls1tech.com/forums/showthrea...hlight=agx+kyb

Shockwave179

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If you tell us what the shocks/springs say or what color they are we could probably tell you what suspension is in the car.

waldershrek

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Mine scrapes too especially on the lovely NY roads


I just deal with it and I know which roads to avoid.

bryan04h

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the only thing that scrapes on my car would be the lt's/ory when i go over speed bumps and im dropped with bilstein/pro-kit

waldershrek

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Maybe I should clarify.....my cut-out scrapes.


The actual frame and everything is in no danger of scraping anything.

bryan04h

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where do you have your cut-out placed? behind or before the axle?

JD_AMG

Do a search in the suspension forum.
KYBs arnt made to damper lowering springs (on top of that are prone to breaking) dont waste your money.
Any reason you're going with the prokit?

waldershrek

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Mine is just about under the passenger seat in that straight piece of pipe. It doesn't scrape all the time, only on driveways that have a nasty incline when turning off the street.

rayvendawn

I'll have to wait until after christmas to look under there. I know the springs are red though. I'll update when I can crawl underneath there.

billyb

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hi wait till you get a tunnel mounted torque arm for long tubes that's the clearence i've got , you go side ways over the speed bumps or cross them @ a angle