Do you absolutely need a pan hard bar for lowering your car on springs? I also heard of camber plates or something? What all would I need to do it the right way??

 

an inch or less drop in the rear doesn't require a panhard bar. It's not a bad idea, but it's not a necessity. I dropped my wife's car 1.5 inches and the read end was 3/4" of an inch to the left. Panhard bars are cheap and easy to install.

As for the front, same scenario probably applies, an inch or so won't require the use of camber bolts, or camber plates. After you do the drop take it to an alignment shop, if they can't get it back to spec you'll have to use bolts or plates.

To do it the absolute best way; drop springs, an adj track bar for the rear. If you really want to preserve the best control arm angle you'll add some lower control arm mounting plates. Front would takes springs, and camber plates. You can get away with camber bolts, but plates are better.

 

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Try this sticky at the top of this section...........

 

SOO many threads about the same stuff. Its like a new one every couple hours at least. I understand we all want to make threads about our cars and stuff. But really this "lowering" topic has been beat to death 5 times over. It just pushes the other "new" topics off the first page.

 

Front arm relocation is not a bad idea if you really want to enjoy your springs without confusing the pinion with a different spring rate than the designers planned for. The lower control arm reinforcement or replacement may not be an unrelated performance upgrade but will only help in improving handling that is properly oriented. You may want to check out Steeda's Bumpsteer kit as well.

 

I'd have to say no, you don't always need an adjustable pan-hard bar. I lowered my old 2005 Mustang GT with Steeda Sport springs and needed one, then on my new GT500 I just installed the Eibach Pro-Kit and the rear didn't kick out at all....so now I have a brand new lightning force performance adjustable pan-hard bar sitting in my basement that I have no use for...

 

To all those who had valuable feedback, thank you for answering my question. I do appreciate the knowledge. To everyone else that deems it necessary to reply with useless comments, you just bumped the forum right to the top with your actions. Something to think about for next time.

 

I'm not one to usually say anything (as you can see from all the answers I gave in most all of your threads), but you defintely don't need to start with those types of comments. If you were to use the search function for all the questions you asked in all your different threads, you would have been amazed at the information you would have gotten, most very helpfull & some not so much...but it would have kept things like these ugly comments from occurring.

 

I apologize for the rant. I don't want a bad rep. I will use the search function more often. Thanks for your replies.

 

appreciate it!

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