this is for all you guys who are slammed to the ground, how is the ride? im slammed on skunk 2 pro s full coilovers, but it rides like ****... no worse then **** i feel like im gonna swerve off the road and crash everytime i hit the littlest crack in the road. im jsut wondering if thats how everyone rides who is slammed or if its jsut me.

 

Did you get an alignment? Cause no **** the handling is bad if not.

Also, wich car, other suspension mod's? Camber-kit? Please give more
info

 

no alignment, but its not the handling thats bad its the ride. its on a dc, i have a camber kit and it used to hit against the shock tower. i cut it to give more room for play, but still rides like ****. on the freeway if i hit a big bump my car will literaly fly in the air. [freak]ing scary

 

Soften your spring rates buddy, sounds like its stupidly stiff

should notice a big improvement if you do that

 

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What did you expect? To defy physics?

You can't have your cake and eat it too when it comes to suspension.

You have 3 options: Man up and deal with it, raise the car up, or spend more money to run an air bag setup if you're so concerned about having the hard-parker look with a cushy ride.

 

im slammed on custom spring rate omni's (F600/R900lb) and my **** doesnt ride THAT bad, but then again its not a DD either. Like Targa said you have some options...you cant take turns crazy fast and then have it ride like a lincoln town car too

 

I suggest raising the car so you're not continuously riding on the bump stops.

 

try to cut ur bumpstops in half or just take it out if it still rides bad

 

im slammed on k sports(redesigned ones). ride is great. i think it depends a lot on spring rates which most ppl dont look at. mine r 10k in the front 8K in back. rides good enough for my new born son. my buddy has 8K front and 6k back and rides really smooth. they bottome out when u hit a pothole but other than that they're great.

 

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hellz yes you can, you just gots to put some R comps on the towncar i keed i keed, that would be funny though...

 

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lol, exact same setup on my dc2, yup pretty much what you mention happens to me too. I had a car full of people one time on the freeway, went over a huge bump at 80mph car literally did freakin fly up and my car scraped like F*** not to mention me & front passenger hittin our heads on the moonroof while people in the back hit their heads on the rear window *ouch*. I would get rid of the goddam skunk2's but I'm just a broke High school student

EDIT: I live in San Francisco, worst roads ever!!!




Modified by TightEyez at 4:28 PM 3/8/2008

 

I think it depends on alot of factors....What i notice that nobody mention is the profile of your tires can make a huge differance in ride quality...Another thing is...its all about understanding how coil over works....If you have preload adjustment...did you adjust them right?..If not then it'll cause a bad ride...other reason may be related to spring rates and the shock valving....

I live in Oakland can the road here aren't that much better then SF..trust me...=p...

 

Are those shocks dampening adjustable*? If not, that would help your problem some. However, once you go too low, you're just too low and nothing will help. As said before: either raise it up, man up, or invest in some dampening adjustable suspension.


Modified by .PLUMMM at 5:49 PM 3/9/2008

 

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What?

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How is that going to help his situation?

 

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If his dampers are already bottomed out it doesn't matter.

To the OP, do you know if your shocks/dampers are bottomed out? IF there is no travel in them, or very little travel then yes it will ride like ****.