OK, so my gf and I are getting a place together for a ridiculously awesome price, so good that it would be stupid to turn down. The problem is that it has the Dakar rally of driveways lol. My 'teg has coilovers (previous owner, I haven't been able to ID the company) and it sits entirely too low to handle the drive. They are adjustable and all, but they are garbage anyways (terrible ride quality mainly) so replacing them has already been on the to-do list. Now the question I have for you guys is this: what's the ride heights some of you all have with your setups? I was looking at the Skunk2 Pro-S II kit, but at the same time I want something that still has good ride quality, and won't put the car 2 inches off the ground. If all else fails, I'll have to try to sell/trade the 'Teg for a Tacoma

 

The whole point of adjustable spring perches is that you can set the ride height to whatever you want. Anything from a reputable company should be able to accommodate anything from slammed to stock height.

GC sleeves on Koni Sport shocks on mine, and I could get it to stock height if I wasn't running extended upper shock mounts. With them, lowered 1.5" is about as high as I can get it without excessive preload on the springs.

Ride quality is choosing spring rates soft enough for the conditions the car will be used in and then choosing shocks that can handle the springs. Read the stickied threads in the suspension forum to get some more information here.

 

I understand how suspension works, the ones on my car don't have any info on the body of the damper at all, I'm thinking they aren't from a 'reputable' company lol. I've just always kinda been apprehensive about playing with suspension settings. I had a 240SX with KYB coil's that rode great, while still sitting pretty low. I just need something that will leave me with some ground clearance, and still have good handling.

Thanks for the info!

 

get the tacoma if you have monster speed bumps My 2nd job on the weekends has some crazy bumps. too big to take my civic so i take the truck on the weekends. DD the civic during the week. if your lowered, its gonna scrape bro

 

Yeah, I'll trade you my '96 LS/V for that Tacoma you've got there haha. It's not speed bumps, it's a grass/dirt drive. She already scrapes here and there, that's just part of having a lowered car, no biggie.

 

the whole point of the coilover system is adjustable height. that being said, most coilover setups are a minimum of 1" lower than OE.

 

Just out of curiosity, why not just raise the car up to accommodate your driveway? or at least raise it temporarily until you get a different setup?

 

This would be common sense, think the op is lacking this...

 

I'm rocking ground control on koni sports with extended too hats and let me tell you this set up's rode quality is pretty damn good. Felt my boys function form type 2's and I think my set up felt better

 

Thanks for all the info guys. I asked a simple question, thanks JuggerNaut for going out of your way to be a douche, typical. I haven't played with the height or settings because I have never adjusted suspension myself, and when I had my tires replaced my buddy who works at the shop was going to raise it a little, and said the adjustment screw/bolt on the damper body was almost impossible to move. Again, thanks for the info.