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How Low Can You Go? How Low Are You And How Practical?


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Hey Guys,

Just got new rims and was planning on lowering really soon. Just wondering how low some people have gone, what supension they're using and how much it robs you of pracitality.

I live in Townsville and there's a few spots around town that I wont be able to go if I go too low. I was thinking the ebay monroe/king spring superlow kit for around $730.

Need help !!!

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I've got SL/ssl springs in my bf foon and it's a good low. Looks alright and very rarely scrapes any where at all. I wouldn't go any lower if you don't want it to scrape everywhere.

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Once the car is lowered past the point where the front and rear lower control arms are parallel to the gound handling is adversly affected.

IMHO this is as low are you would want to go.

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I had SL on the front and it scraped everywhere, then I got a Typhoon front bar and that made the front that bit lower so I ended up putting in 'L' in the front, my rears are SSL. I still manage to scrape the odd curb when parking, but I reverse park whenever possible.

SL's in my car sat lower than in others, so maybe that maybe a factor too..

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ine seemed to do a fair bit of scraping when std, so WTF. I put it where it seemed to handle best on the road.

Fr 340mm ride height

R 345mm ride height.

Ride height is done from the hub center to the center of the guard lip.

330mm will see the rear lower control arms are @ level. And you shortened bump stops riding them.

Going below that you are going out of the bounds of components to get a decent wheel alighnment too.

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I opened this hoping for a "whose gone the lowest comp"

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I have compressed ssls in the front and sl Late model camira springs in the back. On 18s lowest point of the car is about 70mm. I take driveways/speedbumps on an angle and can tackle most without scraping. Very stiff ride and I wouldn't have it any other way :)

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