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Old 09-01-2006, 07:50 AM
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Default I'm trying to figure out if my car is lowered...

I know it sounds like a dumb question, but I think it has a mild drop.

I just bought it two days ago. I thought it was stock when I went to see it. Turns out it's got a catback and a shortshifter. I think it's lowered, I can get three fingers in the tire/fender gap. And the front bumper is about 7.5" off the ground. I wanted to lower it like my old car (5"). I never had any problems with it that low and the shocks never had problems in 2 years. Suggestions? Thanks in advance.
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Look at the springs and see if they're stock,
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They looked like they've been on a while, I don't really know what stock ones look, like. They aren't any bright non-rust coat like tein or H&R, so I don't know...
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Hard to tell... I mean if the car is old enough the shocks/springs could be shot to hell on it and it could appear to be lower than a normal non-lowered car.

If your springs look like normal brown/rust color and your shocks look black / rusty then you probably are not lowered. It's also possible that someone may have cut your stock springs, but I dont know if you'd be able to spot it or not.
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I'd say prolly not because the other mods are rather cheap and following that it'd prolly just have coilovers. Any non stock shocks would be easily identified.
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Any suggestions on which spring I should use for stock shocks? I was going to go tein s-techs or H&R race... I'll replace the shocks by christmas.
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post pics and i will tell you
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Default Re: I'm trying to figure out if my car is lowered... (verycleanhatch)

My comp doesnt have a highspeed usb port. I'm still trying to figure out how to get pics into my comp. I got the cable, camera and everything. I even swapped a supposedly "high speed" port in and it's not working.
Old 09-01-2006, 08:48 AM
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I would get the H&R's race springs. I seen and read that the s.techs don't give that good of a drop.

If i had to do it all over again i would just go with some ground control's. I have neuspeed race on mine.
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by ek forever guy &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">My comp doesnt have a highspeed usb port. I'm still trying to figure out how to get pics into my comp. I got the cable, camera and everything. I even swapped a supposedly "high speed" port in and it's not working.</TD></TR></TABLE>

You don't need a USB2 port to get pictures off of a USB1 camera or visa versa. It'll self negotiate to the fastest speed it can handle. Unless you put a USB2 card in it, you didn't swap in a "high speed" port.
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Default Re: I'm trying to figure out if my car is lowered... (Ricey McRicerton)

sometimes i see labels that say usb 1.0 is highspeed but itsr eally not. if u did put a USB 2.0 card in ur computer make sure u installed the correct drivers
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I installed the 2.0 driver and have a 2.0 card... I don't know what the deal is. Whenever I try to upload pictures it shows them as fractured images... the previews when I try to load them are either X'd or are jigsaw pieces.
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by verycleanhatch &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I seen and read that the s.techs don't give that good of a drop. </TD></TR></TABLE>

those s techs actually gave my brothers wrx wagon a good drop and it looks very nice.
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Default Re: I'm trying to figure out if my car is lowered... (dillywong)

Yeah, different car app. different drop. I've seen same springs vary in drop between car models.
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Like I said, pics are a problem, still trying to figure that junk out
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