Lowering springs - the good and the bad

markiii · April 2, 2004, 13:48

Quote from: "Slacey"
Quote from: "pp"I have the same problem, so I have ordered two big nylon pieces, 2cm high, and around 120 cm long, to put over the longitudinal beams.

If everything works as planned, I'm going to enter my driveway skidding on nylon s:lol: :lol: s:lol:
Hmmm, that's not a bad idea (providing you can't see it) - how do you propose to fix it to the beam?

mine was in teh air having a new manifold under warranty this morning.

noticed exactly teh same problem.

Anonymous · April 3, 2004, 14:53

Quote from: "Slacey"
Quote from: "pp"I have the same problem, so I have ordered two big nylon pieces, 2cm high, and around 120 cm long, to put over the longitudinal beams.

If everything works as planned, I'm going to enter my driveway skidding on nylon s:lol: :lol: s:lol:
Hmmm, that's not a bad idea (providing you can't see it) - how do you propose to fix it to the beam?

I'm thinking s:roll: :roll: s:roll: .....I'll tell you later.

Anonymous · April 4, 2004, 20:53

The problem is much worst than I have thought. s:oops: :oops: s:oops:

Today was a gorgeous day and I have finaly taken my hardtop off.

I have done a big ride on mountain roads, top down, and I have found that the noise that I had imagined to be the wheels touching the plastic that is over them, was in fact the car touching the ground, and it touches a lot(I drive mainly in rally like roads, and I drive fast).

I have a 2003 model with TTE springs and Konis.

I think that I have to mount 16' wheels at the front and 17' on the rear.
Doesn't this happen to you guys? Have you any suggestions?

Anonymous · April 4, 2004, 21:00

Surely if you go for the wheels you suggest you'll throw the speedo way out. And if you adjust the rubber to stop that, then you'll not stop the grounding/rubbing problem.

Slacey · April 5, 2004, 08:05

I've given the car a bit of a beating (with quite a lot of weight in the car), and I can't see any way that the chassis would scrape during driving s:? :? s:?

Are you running stock wheels at the moment?

Anonymous · April 8, 2004, 03:41

Hi Guys,

I always thought the lowest point is that black plastic thingy under the driver side towards the back. looks like a protective cover for something at engine area. s:? :? s:? I'm using HKS springs and i always hear soft scraping sounds over slightly higher bumps or angled slopes. s:cry: :cry: s:cry: I went on track yesterday and i'm quite positive i heard the same sounds each time I went thru a particular chicane. Is it possible that at hard 90 deg corners, it can actually scrape the floor? s:shock: :shock: s:shock:

Anonymous · April 8, 2004, 10:03

My 2 isnt lowered, but there are at least 2 places we goto where it scrapes the ground. One is a local resturants car park and the entrance goes over the paverment then drops at once into a field. It always scrapes here except at one small point at an angle to the road. A real pain. s:(

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Anonymous · April 8, 2004, 15:11

I really want to get mine lowered.. bit worried about it scraping now though!

Although compared to America, at least there aren't too many places I'd be touching the floor.. I was sitting in a KFC in the states the other year, watching cars crossing a storm drain gulley at the edge of the road to enter the drive-thru.
It was such an enormous camber that even SUVs were scraping.. I nearly lost the bumper on my rental Camero on the way out too!