im lowering my S soon, on either buddy club dampers or tein flex, but on ajracing they say it can wear on the diff?..

how true is that, is it nessesary, and kinda curious on what you more knowledgable S owners think of it?.. thanks

 

Yup, J's Racing recommends their own driveshaft spacers when lowering the S2K.

 

yeah once you start modding things... other things will start to ware out quicker..... it's common on everything.....

by the way.. since you live in maryland... i'm not sure if you browse though http://www.s2ki.com in the mid-atlantic forum... but we are having a car wash/wax meet on feb 20th i believe... it's not finalized yet.... but it looks like that will be the day.... and it's going to be at criswell honda in germantown..... so come on out... there's about 8 to 10 cars that will be there so far..

 

nice, if the sun will be out ill be there

 

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i'll give you an update on it later...

 

Lowering the car will take out how much life of the driveshaft thought ? Is it really needed?

 

i don't think it's really needed

 

just another chunk of change on the car

 

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the car has already burned a hole in my bank account

 

Spoon Sports also has driveshaft spacers. When you lower, it changes the angle of the driveshaft relative to the diff. I can see how this may cause more wear and tear.

 

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does the pinion angle change that much? I wondered if anyone has checked the angle change.

 

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does the pinion angle change that much? I wondered if anyone has checked the angle change.</TD></TR></TABLE>

i think the angle change would depend on the amount that you've dropped it... so the more the drop the more of an angle and the more ware and tear...

 

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Truism

 

When you lower the car the driveshafts angle changes (depends how much you lower your car) and the driveshafts will be stratch/stress . If you don't install the driveshafts spacers, you car will be fine if only you don't lower the car too much. This is occured to ppl who lower the car a lot with heavily abbusing cuz it will increase the wear inside of the driveshaft .The idea of the spacers is to eliminate the stress created by lowering so that your driveshafts will last longer and you will get better handling with these spacers.


Thanks
Ben

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by AJ PwR &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">When you lower the car the driveshafts angle changes (depends how much you lower your car) and the driveshafts will be stratch/stress . If you don't install the driveshafts spacers, you car will be fine if only you don't lower the car too much. This is occured to ppl who lower the car a lot with heavily abbusing cuz it will increase the wear inside of the driveshaft .The idea of the spacers is to eliminate the stress created by lowering so that your driveshafts will last longer and you will get better handling with these spacers.


Thanks
Ben</TD></TR></TABLE>

how hard is it to install these?

 

how much are these spacers??? and which sizes do they come in.... i've got my car dropped close to 2 inches...

 

These spacers are unnecessary. It has nothing to do with the differential assembly. For someone suffering repeated accelerated wear, they're better off upgrading to aftermarket halfshafts.

We're talking about accelerated wear in the CV joints of the half shafts. You will get accelerated wear from hard launches, and heavy track driving. Similar to FWD applications, when you lower a car, you're changing your suspension geometry and will stretch your halfshafts. "Drop it like it's hot" ride heights need longer axles with "beefier" CV joints (shotpeened etc etc etc). The spacers help in dumped cars but are not what I call a proper fix.

Proper fix= reasonable ride height that doesn't compromise handling characteristics for aesthetics.

 

this car has independent suspension its not a
mustang no solid rear end...how is lowering it gonna effect the angle..? just a thought
the eng trans and diff are all mounted to chassis....they also have high speed cv's
plunging is ok..on a cv..

 

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mustang no solid rear end...how is lowering it gonna effect the angle..? just a thought
the eng trans and diff are all mounted to chassis....they also have high speed cv's
plunging is ok..on a cv..</TD></TR></TABLE>

think about it a little more, static ride height stock vs dumped and the angles of the half shafts, this applies to FWD as well.