Here they are, first pics of my car after installing *most* of my suspenion. I like the way it looks for the most part.









I don't know if you can see in the pics or not, but I have about 1 finger gap up front and 2 in back. I was thinking of bringing the rear spring perches down to the lower setting (15mm lower). What do you all think, should I do it?

All the pics can be seen here.

 

Sure, the lower the better. I'd take off the mud flaps off though.

 

looks good, it would be a good idea to take off the front mud pads because they will hit everything

 

it needs to b dropped.

 

definitely lower it more..and remove the mudflaps.

 

Mudflaps keep the car cleaner. They're only black plastic, I don't really care if they scrape.

 

Not to get off theme here but I think the ride height is great.... very close to my H&R OE height

If you go any lower, I'm afraid your camber may be seriously fuct and lose traction since the contact patch of the tire will be non-existent. Get an alignment soon too.

Nice car Pat!

 

Leave it at that height, keep the mudflaps.

Your car looks just like mine, but my car is a diff color and I have KYB's.



Tom

 

I'd like the fender gap to be about 1-finger all arond, I like how it looks in front. For the back I can always just throw a couple washers onto the upper arm bolts to bring the camber closer to 0 (I want to keep a little neg. camber, though). Thanks for all the replies. My rear LCA bolts came out without a hitch, so I think I could get the shock disassembled and reassembled in not too much time, and change it back if it was too low. I found out that if you unbolt the LCA from the hub (rather than unbolting the hub from the upper control arm), you don't have to have someone to push down to get the shock back in all you need is someone to put the nuts on inside the hatch. You also have to unbolt the ABS line from the LCA to keep from stretching it too far.

 

Not a good pic of mine, but here 'tis.

Don't be fooled, there is about an inch or two of snow so it looks lower than it is.

I take my previous statement in my post back, yours is lower Pat.

 

your car looks almost at stock height...

 

DOOD, your making me want to skip work tomorrow and go snowboarding! Wisconsin here I comeeeeee.


[Modified by solomonc, 7:14 AM 2/18/2002]

 

Ha what did you do, get out of the passenger side door then walk way behind the car and over to the side so there wouldn't be any footprints in front of the car?

 

Car looks good, man

Personally, I think it looks good at the current height, but it never hurts to lower it more if that is what you are into. Good luck man!

 

No, but you really can't see my footprints too well in the shadow. Heh.

That day was so fun.

 

Looks like buffalo

 

I think it looks good right now... tegs ride like **** when there slammed(IMHO)...
but i would get rid of the flaps, it looks 10 times better without them, but my motto
is the trust is always up to you...

 

Well, I think I will drop the perches down next weekend and see how I like it, and if it's too low I will just raise it right back up (shock disassembly and reassembly will be cake w/ these H&R springs ).

 

mmmvtec hit it right on the nail if you lower it more you'll have camber problems. I seen camber problems on other cars abd I just can't help but laugh. And no it's not the lower the better, oh wait it may be if your are going for the rice look hahaha.

 

Excellent Car!!...I have the same exact one! I lowered mine with Comptech springs and KYB-AGX's and I love it. I see you have the All-Red tails and the amber sidemarkers. These are two mods that I'll be doing this year as well! Again..Nice ride...
layta