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12-22-2009, 07:21 PM
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Give me your honest opinion... I just picked up this WS6 about 2 weeks ago and my first mod was to lower it. I lowered the front with some Hotchkis springs from Jegs and I did the back using the "hose mod" I learned from LS1Tech (thanks BTW!). The whole process took about an hour and a half for the front and literally 25 minutes for the rear. I didn't use lowering springs for the back because I wanted just a little bit of rake. Please tell me what y'all think. Thanks!
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12-22-2009, 08:04 PM
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To me I'd say it looks really good. Having said that about another.5" off the back would be my favorite. A raked look to me isn't bad. It is way better than the sagging *** syndrome. Anyway good job I like it.
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12-22-2009, 09:13 PM
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A little rake is nice, a lot of rake looks like you lowered the front but didn't lower the rear (which is what that looks like). Cut a coil off the rear springs or swap in some rear lowering springs whether they be Hotchkis, BMR, Strano, Vogtland, or whatever. The back needs to come down bad IMO. The front looks amazing!
12-22-2009, 09:32 PM
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Thanks for the honest feedback guys! It's rather apparent that I need to go ahead and lower the back too. My only other concern is that I was going to take it to the muffler shop next week and have them fab up a true dual exhaust setup with dumps right before the axle. I'm afraid I won't have enough clearance if I lower the rear as well. Anyone have a lowered F-body AND TDs dumped?
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lowered and dumped TD here.
i've got BMR 1.25" springs, and 3" tds with full size magnaflow 4x9 mufflers.
the mufflers sit right under the rear seats, and are tucked up within 1/4" of the floor pan or so. they are the lowest part and have right around 2.25" of clearance.
if you ran bullets or a chamberd muffler you could tuck the pipes/muffler farther up in the trans tunnel and get a little mroe clearance. but then the pipes would be the lowest part.
although running 2.5" pipes would help that.....as stated, i'm running 3" pipes.
here are my pics: last one is it sitting on the ground looking back
my rear is just a little too low, even though the wheel wells are basically perfectly even all around. i'm planning on putting a 1/4" spacer to boost it just a smidgen. also may put a 3/8" spacer in the passenger side since that side is lower (very common).
i've got BMR 1.25" springs, and 3" tds with full size magnaflow 4x9 mufflers.
the mufflers sit right under the rear seats, and are tucked up within 1/4" of the floor pan or so. they are the lowest part and have right around 2.25" of clearance.
if you ran bullets or a chamberd muffler you could tuck the pipes/muffler farther up in the trans tunnel and get a little mroe clearance. but then the pipes would be the lowest part.
although running 2.5" pipes would help that.....as stated, i'm running 3" pipes.
here are my pics: last one is it sitting on the ground looking back
my rear is just a little too low, even though the wheel wells are basically perfectly even all around. i'm planning on putting a 1/4" spacer to boost it just a smidgen. also may put a 3/8" spacer in the passenger side since that side is lower (very common).
