CL-S6

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I was woundering this because Im dropped about 2.4 inches in the front and about 1.8-2 inchen in the back. Would this be bad for my axles and u-joints? Should I even worrie about anything bad happening? I do drive my car pretty hard. Im sure this question would also help other members who want to go low and wounder that same thing.

ChrisQ1980

Personally I don't want to go more than 2.0 front and 1.8 rear.

LeeDan00

if your dropped on springs, it will always be uneven no matter what. if you're on coilsovers, then you can get it to be pretty close all around. personally i don't like the look of the front being much lower in the front - and vise versa. i don't think it will do anything seriously bad to your car - just that it looks funny.

z3Ro

i drive abuse my car pretty hard too...

slam that shit...

datzdaboi

You could never go too low......even when your makin sparks on the freeway go lower !!!!

AMGala

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I'm dropped on Eibachs and they are even.

CL Platano

You can never be too low , dont worry about it, you'll be fine..

fsttyms1

If your referring to the wheel wells being at different heights thats not the car being uneven. They are cut at a different height. Having them even would make your car uneven.

CL-S6

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So there will be no extra wear and tear on the axles and joints from being lowered?

LeeDan00

fsttyms1 - kris - actually you bring up a really good point.

III

no such thing to me :P

Razzi

that's good to know then, when next spring comes, this baby is gonna be rubbin on some rubber

III

why wait til spring?

jayunsplanet

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Of course there would be! All the suspension components were designed to work together in a certain range. By compressing that range with springs/coilovers you're asking the other components (bushings, ball joints, axles, control arms, trailing arms, etc.) to work harder, flex in positions they weren't designed for, etc.

It depends on your roll center, suspension stroke, and how hard you actually drive. Normally, if you lower the car with just springs, 90% of the time, your shocks are bottoming out because the suspension stroke just got shorter by your lowering distance.. with that said, you might end up screwing up your roll center, which puts a lot more stress on bushings and the such..

Depending on how hard you corner, let's just say that you are actually bottoming out the strut at full compression. During that full compression, you could be out of the range that the CV joint will work properly and among other things that are being torqued out of its range.

This can also happen in a coilover system as well, and the likeliness of happening can be just as bad because it depends on who installed it and knowing how to set it up.

Will you actually run into any problems for the time you own it? Maybe not...

SSMTL01

I'm about to replace my second set of axles in the year and a half that my car has been on coilovers if that answers any questions Granted, I do drive the shit out of it

Tampa TL

Does dropping the car too low affect the CV joints? For a while now my CV joints have had a small "slit" on the bottom of the black rubber piece. So all the grease from inside has eventually spilled out onto the inside of my rims. I don't know if the "slits" were caused from dropping the car or if they were just ready to be replaced anyway.

jayunsplanet

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^Yes, I'd think those would be the first to go.
I had a lower one replaced a few months ago when I was running springs + oem shocks.

Doc Holliday

Dude... Honestly... The only thing I worry about is hitting my front end on slants... My car isn't even lowered !!

but I have a front skirt/lip kit installed that makes it lower... so

I want to fill some of the gap myself, but I don't want my front bumper to lower at all.. I actually want to raise it an inch or so.... so no scraping on an incline ! because that costs $$$ to fix !

02type-s

That would look absolutely ridiculous and it would handle like shit

Doc Holliday

A cracked bumper doesn't look to great either : (

02type-s

you have to hit the dip at an angle

Doc Holliday

I know man... lol it's random shit that gets me.... I just need it up about an inch or so and I think I'll be good

oVerBoost

you wont crack your bumper unless you seriously pound on it. The polyeurethane will flex enough that if anything, you'll end up with a few scratches.

AZP-TL

More than a few actually. I'm not even lowered and my whole front end is scratched to hell/paint peeling because of some huge dips between the road and sidewalk/parking lot in my area.

Doc Holliday

it has cracked twice... I'll take pics tomorrow... pisses me off

It cracks where it's molded I guess... but it really has no give like it was just the one piece bumper cover : (

philly fresh

thats cuz you drive like shit. lol. jk. if you followed me you would think i was drunk i swerve everywhere to avoid shit. i dont really care what peeps think. i roll a sexy 3.2

AZP-TL

Ha! You wouldn't think that if you saw the dips I'm talking about but yeah I try to avoid potholes and what not as well.

philly fresh

not going to say my potholes are bigger than yours but i live in houston which has alot of refineries here with big ass rigs to go with them. and on top of that we have alot of traffic due to I10 (runs from cali to florida) houston roads are shit!!! ask anyone that is on here that lives here

burnerjunky

http://heeltoeauto.com/Tein-Suspensi...-pr-57053.html

what about those. Says they work well with oem or oem-like shocks.

not bad, me thinks

takahashi

when u cant turn ur steering wheel withouth pulling ur fenders off... even then its not low enough.


bags is the only way.

caligirl2k

AMGala

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Hmm I wonder why takahashi got banned

fsttyms1

When you cant drive over a BK Whopper you are too low

fsttyms1

For violating our rules.

myron

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so true

AMGala

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lol. I was wondering what specifically.

Flyboy4yang

Just have to know your roads in your city. If I go down a road with dips and potholes, I don't take that road again. Same goes to steep inclined driveways.