josh_0351

Bout 1.5" - 2"

jdaniel

...but remember, if you go any lower than 1.5" then you will need CC plates and I can vouch that a car dropped 2" or more is HARD to keep aligned. I have Ford Racing CC plates and I have had to have my car aligned three times since Ive owned it and it still needs another. Just some food for thought.

04BlueGT

Besides H&R, DropZone offers a 2" drop with a variable rate spring, so you keep a decent ride quality. You will have to do one (or more) of the following:

C&C plates

Bumpsteer kit

Offset rack bushings (recommend aluminum with index feature)

All of these items correct steering geometry of your car, otherwise you start wearing the inside of your tires badly and your frontend will jump around when you hit any bumps (i.e. bumpsteer). I'm going with the offsets myself. I recommend the plates or offsets before the bumpsteer kit. You can add bumpsteer later or even do all three. You stock shocks and struts will still work if you don't want to replace them right now.

Springs - http://www.prostreetonline.com/buy/d...ings/spsp2100/

Offset rack bushings - http://www.fordracingparts.com/parts...tKeyField=2003

C&C and bumpsteer are available from Steeda and others.

jdaniel, have you looked into the offsets?

jdaniel

I ahvent yet but I think im gonna do them and the bumpsteer kit. I have been meaning to look into them, but I just havent had the time.

04BlueGT

$40 and an hour. I'm installing my springs and offsets on the 27th. If you want to wait, I'll let you know how it went.

03GTType

i have a 2.5 inch drop and do not have cc plates and have never had it aligned so i guess either it wasnt done right or something.. i have had the new springs on for about 8 months now.. [&:]

jdaniel

You may wanna take a look at the insides of your tires.

I bet if you look at them from the front, your tires look like this...

/-----\ LOL

04BlueGT

Couldn't hurt to check the inside edges of your front tires for excessive wear. If you're not sure you can tell, place a stripe of 2 or 3 inch wide tape across the surface of the tire. Color it with a permanent marker. Drive normal (like a sane person) without any hard cornering! for 20 or so miles. Hopefully, the tape is still on at this point. Check to see if the marker is worn off or worse, the tape.

Need good sticky tape for this. Duct tape works, I think.

If you see the wear, well, you know what that means.


No, I have not tried this. It only just occured to me. I'll try it when I lower my car. If anyone tries this before me, let me know if it worked.

jdaniel, think this will work???

josh_0351

MAN, I don’t know how some of you Cats get away with dropping it much beyond the Pro Kit’s 1.5’ish, and still get around without bottoming out. I was hauling **** in 2nd through the parking lot @ Super Target a few weeks back and at the bottom where there is a slight dip, sure enough, I scraped. [:'(] I’m VERY cautious now whenever approaching dips or humps in the road…

03GTType

no i had just had them taken off about two weeks ago at les schwab to see because of that reason and they let me go out in the shop and show me them, mainly because i told them i wanted to see them but they have even wear all the across.. my girlfriends car is a different story she has a 04 corolla s and i lowered it the day after mine, hers is a 2.4 inch in front and 2.3 inch in the rear and she is on her second set of tires due to the inside tire wear.. the funny thing is, is when i went in to les schwab -where i bought her tires from the first time- i acted like they were bad tires so they told me they would pay for them and just take the difference off a better pair so i ended up paying 65. out the door for two new goodyears on the front.. guess its just if you get lucky when you lower a car..