I just got my car back from the body shop and i was looking in getting my car lowered. I live in NJ and the roads are pretty rough, i have a street scene bodykit and i want good handling...Would it be a good idea to get just the rear dropped with tokico d-spec shocks and struts? Any help would be great..

 

Can some one give me some input

 

Obviously, the chin will be closer to the ground, and on rough roads, potholesyou will rub and scrape the chin eventually. Also, cement parking stops and curbs like the ones at Outback, Applebees, Chilis etc. Will tear up stock chins, so they would really wreck a lowered car, if you're not careful.
JMO

 

Yea i know thats what sucks about living in Jersey... I guess my best bet will be just to lower the rear...

 

I'm not sure just lowering the rear would look right. Wouldn't it increase your opening above the tire in the front wheel wells ?, and there's already to much space there now.

 

What do you think my best bet would be? I was looking at the steeda ultralite springs..The dont look like they will lower the front that much, just about one inch.

 

I think you already about 1 to 11/2 lowerwith the street scene body kit. The stock GT chin is 9 1/2 at front and 8 at the bottom where it wraps under the front bumper.
So you'll have to go measure the street scene chin, compare it to stock, and do the math.
Now, where I live there are always dead opossums, racoons etc.... in the middle of the road and alligators (what we call the lost recaps from large trucks) on the 4 lanes. it's not always possible to "dodge" these, and that type of situation could really screw up a lower riding chin, on a lowered car.

 

Yeah thats true, i prob have about an inch or so lower on the front...But im just no happy about the back wheel. There is too much of a gap between the wheel and the body..