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Old Mar 20, 2011 | 12:27 AM
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I have raceland coils right now and they are all maxxed out, people have said to remove one of the perches but i don't think that will help because there is no pressure on the springs as it is. Heres a pic of how it sits now

Old Mar 20, 2011 | 12:38 AM
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Take out the perch, and switch to 215/35/18's. You will be pretty close to riding rim.
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I can't the rims are 18x10 and im on 225/35 now they are already suupppeerrr stretched haha

And yeah i guess i can try and take off the bottom perch
Old Mar 20, 2011 | 04:34 AM
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225's are a baby stretch. 215's are a decent stretch; I've seen 205's, thats a super stretch. Taking out the perches = more low.
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Take out the perch then, you will get pretty low. Must be the shadows on the pic...I swear those looked like 40's.
Old Mar 20, 2011 | 06:45 AM
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Yeah i probably will then and yea i just bought these tires i had 40's before but went with 35's to get lower
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Remove bottom perch ring. Some people have gone as far as cutting the bump stops. I'm debating about doing that to mine in the near future.
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Car is looking clean bro
Old Mar 20, 2011 | 09:45 PM
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Ditch the coils and get air bags.
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Originally Posted by jeremydoc
Remove bottom perch ring. Some people have gone as far as cutting the bump stops. I'm debating about doing that to mine in the near future.
Yeah thats what i was just thinking about doing but didn't know how much to cut

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Ditch the coils and get air bags.
Nooo bags are for groceries
Old Mar 21, 2011 | 01:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Spicy_McHaggiz
Ditch the coils and get air bags.
spicy, i feel like all you do on here is troll to people. recommending things to people even though thats not what theyre asking. ever since i made that post a while back about either rokkor or raceland. i specifically remember you saying on that thread of mine, "its going to f*** up the suspension anyways. Make the car look like crap." so if slamming the tC is not your scene, then quit viewing people's thread about lowered car period.

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Yeah thats what i was just thinking about doing but didn't know how much to cut
https://www.scionlife.com/forums/sho...=rokkor+tuning

check post #435 by bum. i was thinking about doing that to my front rokkors since rokkors are pretty much identical to racelands.
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Hey JeremyDoc, just an FYI he said he wanted to go low. I was unaware that suggesting Air Bags which get you lower then anything coils could do would be trolling. Get that chip of your shoulder kid.
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check post #435 by bum. i was thinking about doing that to my front rokkors since rokkors are pretty much identical to racelands.[/QUOTE]


Yeah thanks i subscribed...i kinda want an extra set of front coils in case it rides like crap after i cut them lol
Old Mar 21, 2011 | 03:53 PM
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Yeah thanks i subscribed...i kinda want an extra set of front coils in case it rides like crap after i cut them lol[/QUOTE]

It actually is less bouncy now because the job of a bumpstop is to prevent the strut from bottoming out when you hit a bump. Now you will be riding pretty much with the support of mainly the spring. As opposed to hovering a half inch from the top of the bumpstop. I cut it off at the top line so I took off maybe half an inch.
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you dont need air bags to be low. The only people who need airbags are those who dont know their angles/limits, or people who have to cross large speedbumps everyday / etc.. Airbags suck, not worth the trouble of maintaining them IMO. Just take out a perch from your coilovers like previously mentioned.
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Why do you want to ruin your handling any more?
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These are racelands. There wasn't much to the handling anyways.
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Originally Posted by Hayseed
These are racelands. There wasn't much to the handling anyways.
QFT
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Originally Posted by paul_dezod
Why do you want to ruin your handling any more?
Its his car, not yours... if you werent aware.
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Originally Posted by paul_dezod
Why do you want to ruin your handling any more?
LOL...always with the handling comments. Is it just me....I rarely ever see myself driving hard in a Scion tC.............................

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