lower a camaro
It takes a set of lowering springs, and a better set of shocks is HIGHLY recommended, along with an adjustable panhard bar for the back of the car, to re-center the axle after lowering.
How hard it is to do, depends solely on your mechanical skills and tool inventory.
How hard it is to do, depends solely on your mechanical skills and tool inventory.
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Just buy the springs and do it yourself. The back takes like 5 minutes. The front will take a little longer. Make sure you have a spring compressor too. I never did it before, but when I did mine, it was pretty simple.
Last edited by KevinR; Feb 24, 2011 at 02:55 PM.
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plan for a weekend if things dont go to plan, you may want to budget for new upper mounts as the shaft of the shock may be completely rusted in there. The top nut may be screwed as well. Much easier to cut off the stock shock to get it apart then try to use a punch and knock shaft out, its what worked for me. Mark which way the springs go too, so you know how to put them back on, that goes for the plastic piece, the spring, and the metal holder cup. make sure to have some anti seize to put on stuff, and have a torque wrench. You might want a mallet to knock the spindle from the upper a arm, mine was stuck good. Definitely a doable job for the diy, and I havent done all that much. As for the spring compressor get a decent one, mine looked like it was going to shatter any minute as the rods flexed, I kept it far from my face as theres tons of tension on them. If you have any trouble im sure someone should be able to give you some advice.
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I would add relocation brackets and adj. torque arm, otherwise your traction is going to be ****. And is your PHR adj? If so, then its ok, if its not, it won't do any good when you lower it.
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Yup. If you can buy just the back springs, all you have to do is jack the car up by the diff. Put your jackstands on the frame. Lower the jack so the diff drops a bit. Unbolt the shocks at the bottom to drop the rearend a bit more. Pop old springs out, put new ones on. Tighten everything back up.
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