Shoaz
Studly dood
A lot of people shim the steering rack up with a hardened washer or two. It's not that bad.
Eibach/Itrax visual comparison.
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A lot of people shim the steering rack up with a hardened washer or two. It's not that bad.
No. I did it so when I auto cross my door handles do not scrape pavement.
....and if you could let me know what I've damaged, that would be great
ManySHOs
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I understand what you're trying to say but I can't think of anything that's getting damaged by lowering the car. The CV joints might be under a little more tension and the tie rods and sway bars may not be exactly parallel with the road depending on how far the car is lowered. This can lead to some handling issues but I can't think of anything that's getting damaged.
FWIW, when I installed Eibachs on my old 94 and my 93 (10 years ago), the ride height increased over stock. As time passed, the Eibachs began to settle and sag as well. Without cut coils, I don't consider the eibachs to really be lowering springs.
Ian
F-22 Raptor SHO
New Member
wow...nik has had his car for 2 years already...my how those kids grow up fast.
twr
whoohoo
Did mine to lower the COG and increase the handling. I have the steering rack shimmed up and the subframe shimmed down. After 6 years and 40k miles lowered like this, I've yet to replace any suspension parts. The only part I've had to replace was a lower control arm and that's because I ripped the dust boot on it. The alignment shop was able to set everything to my specs as well.
Eibach:
Intrax (one coil cut up front):
I guess you can say we reversed-engineered it to be better. I also have my rack shimed and all my suspension spec (well, to the spec I wanted; I have negative camber as it HELPS the wear on my tire and makes it more fun to drive).
Intrax (one coil cut up front):
I guess you can say we reversed-engineered it to be better. I also have my rack shimed and all my suspension spec (well, to the spec I wanted; I have negative camber as it HELPS the wear on my tire and makes it more fun to drive).
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goalieman59
Learning Slowly
Eibach:
Intrax (one coil cut up front):
I guess you can say we reversed-engineered it to be better. I also have my rack shimed and all my suspension spec (well, to the spec I wanted; I have negative camber as it HELPS the wear on my tire and makes it more fun to drive).
Nice ride, I love the way the car sits.
okcoolthnx
New Member
Whoa, how did you put your hood supports there? Is there a write-up for that? I've been wanting to get a STB for the longest time, but since I always have to do some type of maintenance on the car I didn't want to loose my supports....
38SHO
#1 Oil Abuser
after seeing some before and after pics, I am convinced my SHO has the most wheel gap EVER in the front lol... its like 6" wtf? I need some cut moogs badly
goalieman59
Learning Slowly
There used to be a hood strut relocation kit, you could be i dont know you can still get them or not.
Shoaz
Studly dood
Are they ATX springs by any chance? The Pumpkin sat like that right after the tranny swap while the ATX springs were still in place. This was at PIR in 2005 (Mother's Day, that's my Mom), right after the tranny swap. It still had the interior in it.
38SHO
#1 Oil Abuser
yeah thats about how my car sits.... how can I tell if they are atx springs?
I don't know if their are tags still on it, but my rear still has tags
doesn't help I'm running 225-50-16's
I don't know if their are tags still on it, but my rear still has tags
doesn't help I'm running 225-50-16's
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