[Norm Peterson]

Understand that having the biggest drop generally means that you will NOT get the best handling, and that handling in cases of extreme lowering may not be even as good as bone-stock. Even though the appearance may make you think that the cornering and handling will improve, you end up making bigger sacrifices in suspension geometry than the lower CG height gains back for you. It is entirely possible to end up with a car that rolls more than stock in the same turn at the same speed even with the lowering springs being stiffer than stock.

Trust me on that last item, as I've been there with H&R Sport springs on a different car. H&R's are certainly good enough as springs, just that when you have WAY too much drop, you WILL have problems. In my case I ended up fabricating (involving cutting/welding/drilling of steel flat stock) a very non-standard "fix" to put things somewhere near right again).

I realize that you're putting appearance pretty high up on the list of requirements here, but the closer to a 1" drop that you can talk yourself into living with, the better your handling improvement will actually end up being. And the less frequently you'll be hitting the bump stops even with new shocks and struts.


On edit - just what size are the new tires?


Norm