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Old Jul 9, 2011 | 05:05 PM
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I want to slam my ek and its already hitting frame and im not even that low and i was told to go any lower i have cut my engine bay and beat in my frame? any help/ advice on wat to do to be tucked haha.
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Old Jul 9, 2011 | 05:06 PM
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Post pic's.

if your hitting the frame rails don;t you think your low enough!? My friend's old coupe was damn near undriveable and it didn't hit the frame.

Or your talking about the shock towers, which, yes you will need to cut them and expand them.
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Old Jul 9, 2011 | 05:33 PM
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nearly every speed bump i go straight over and sometimes i nick my exhaust, theres been a couple i had to go sideways over.
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Old Jul 9, 2011 | 05:37 PM
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Sounds and looks pretty damn low to me. You're slamming up the shock towers with the upper A-arms.
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Old Jul 9, 2011 | 05:39 PM
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Yea, your already slammed.

How much lower are you looking to go?
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Old Jul 9, 2011 | 05:42 PM
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I wouldn't go any lower. Why do you want to go lower? Are you trying to compete against airbagged mini trucks or something?


Looking at that picture, you might want to check your local laws. Here in Idaho, and my future state Washington, you are illegal (again, just going by the picture). Nothing (frame, body kit, etc) cannot be lower to the ground than the rim. It looks like you are lower than the rim in the front. If you get a flat, your screwed.
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Old Jul 9, 2011 | 05:43 PM
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ill post up another pic in a sec of how it really looks on level ground.

i want my lip of my rims to be close to my fenders.
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Old Jul 9, 2011 | 05:44 PM
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what suspension do you have?

You are going to have to modify the car to get it that low.

Just leave it alone.
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I saw a 240 on the highway yesterday that was so low that I didn't know how he wasn't setting off sparks. It looked stupid. Like a mechanical flying carpet that couldn't get off of the ground or something. How low are you trying to get? Daily driving? Hope you have high spring rates for your suspension.
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Old Jul 9, 2011 | 05:44 PM
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I wouldn't go any lower. Why do you want to go lower? Are you trying to compete against airbagged mini trucks or something?
ha nooo, idk i just wanna be lower.
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ill post up another pic in a sec of how it really looks on level ground.

i want my lip of my rims to be close to my fenders.
Sounds like a very bad idea just for a look.
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Old Jul 9, 2011 | 05:47 PM
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what suspension do you have?

You are going to have to modify the car to get it that low.

Just leave it alone.
ebay coils. nothin special
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Old Jul 9, 2011 | 05:53 PM
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ebay coils. nothin special
Fail. Do you get to choose spring rates on those? You have to ride pretty stiff when you go that low.
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Old Jul 9, 2011 | 05:53 PM
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all the way down I assume?

if so, you can pull the adjusters. But, let this be said. I highly don't reccomend doing this.
I did, and almost lost my car on a corner on 509.
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Old Jul 9, 2011 | 05:56 PM
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all the way down I assume?

if so, you can pull the adjusters. But, let this be said. I highly don't reccomend doing this.
I did, and almost lost my car on a corner on 509.
Yup. Those adjusters usually have a lip that helps seat the springs. Without it the spring moves all over the place. They will even start, what I call, mushrooming the sleeves at the bottom and start to split them.
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Old Jul 9, 2011 | 06:00 PM
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what im mainly wondering is what suspension should i get that isnt as much as my car that I can go pretty low on and not be doin bunny hops down the rode?
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Old Jul 9, 2011 | 06:05 PM
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No suspension can do that. it's not possible not to have a bummy of uncomftable ride when slammed.
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if i took the adjusters out would i have to cut my engine bay?
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Old Jul 9, 2011 | 06:18 PM
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Originally Posted by plastic_sluggz
ill post up another pic in a sec of how it really looks on level ground.

i want my lip of my rims to be close to my fenders.

At the fender as in at the back of the fender?

Your unibody is lower than the fender, your front lip is lower than the fender. Didn't I just tell you that in Washington, NOTHING can be lower than the lip of the rim. It's a safety issue. You get a flat on the freeway, you just came to a dead stop with no steering.

Everytime I go to that side of the state, I'm gonna keep an eye out for a White EK Hatch with orange rims, I'm gonna get the **** off the road. You are making a really bad accident waiting to happen.
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Old Jul 9, 2011 | 06:25 PM
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Originally Posted by plastic_sluggz
what im mainly wondering is what suspension should i get that isnt as much as my car that I can go pretty low on and not be doin bunny hops down the rode?
None.
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Old Jul 9, 2011 | 06:37 PM
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just cut your coils off bruh
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Old Jul 9, 2011 | 06:42 PM
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Might as well weld little casters to your frame......
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Old Jul 9, 2011 | 07:23 PM
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if i took the adjusters out would i have to cut my engine bay?
Yes.

[QUOTE=corndog;45612641]At the fender as in at the back of the fender?

Your unibody is lower than the fender, your front lip is lower than the fender. Didn't I just tell you that in Washington, NOTHING can be lower than the lip of the rim. It's a safety issue. You get a flat on the freeway, you just came to a dead stop with no steering.QUOTE]

He'll have issues being as low as he is for sure!

Tacoma's roads are ****.
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Old Jul 9, 2011 | 07:29 PM
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leave it alone . . . . ur even risking ur life by "going lower" , and all that for just a look F*** that
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Old Jul 9, 2011 | 08:09 PM
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i hope you know the cars that seriously go the height you are trying to achieve is SHOW cars, HARD PARKED cars. if this is your daily, i strongly recommend that you don't go that low. but if u want, the height you wanna achieve can't be achieved on 50 dollar ebay coils and when u lower your car it takes away the ride quality cuz theres less room for the spring to bounce to absorb the shock. if that was confusing, i pretty much tried to say the lower you go= the more bouncy/uncomfortable the ride is going to be and you can't do anything about that.
if u still wanna go that low koni ground control could probably achieve it.

not to mention your state laws, if you get in trouble with law enforcement your gonna get hit up with a **** load of fix it tickets or w/e they wanna give you and you're just gonna end up having to raise it anyway
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