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Old 07-08-2005 | 02:29 PM
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Does anyone have the Hotchkis 1in drop? If so do you like it? Does anyone have any one have any suggestions? I dont want my car to scrape too much.
Old 07-09-2005 | 08:20 AM
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I had the Eibach pro kit in my 01' no problems until I put long tubes and an ORY in. Pretty sure it's a 1.25" drop? The car looked great but I'd rathar have the performance than looks and the Y pipe just hung too low with the springs on the car so I went back to the stock ones. As long as you plan to keep the stock exhaust on the car you won't have any problems scraping.
Here's with the Eibach springs:

http://nick.vettextc.net/01CamaroSS/Picture016.jpg
Old 07-09-2005 | 10:42 AM
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I have them, and I love them. The only problem I ran into was after I had a new catted y-pipe installed, it scraped on EVERYTHING! So I put the stock rear springs back on and that helped.

I don't know how they re-pave roads in Marlyand, but in Houston (and much of Texas), they tend to put a new layer of asphault or blacktop on the road with a more pronounced crown (the road is higher in the middle for drainage purposes). They neglect to do anything with the driveways, so you end up with a sharper angle between where the roadside ends and driveways begin. The result: SCRAPE!

I rarely scraped my stock y-pipe on anything. If I did, it was either a serious speed bump or I took it too fast. Even when I did, it was more of a "kiss" than a scrape.



With Hotchkis on all 4 corners:
http://photobucket.com/albums/y251/c...s%20installed/

Hotchkis on front, stock rear:
http://photobucket.com/albums/y251/chupr0kabra/Raked/


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