Please please pleasssse explain to me how that works. haha. I'm SLAMMED. I took out my underplastics and fender plastics I am so SLAMMED (sometimes - coilovers! haha). But seriously, please explain to me how you are going to lose performance by slamming your car.

 

Hey Luis! Good meeting you man! I am on these boards now too. Car is looking good!

 

And hello to you too Mr. Kirby Quinto! Nice sig! B&G and bBist represent!!! Now, can someone please explain how I can do mulitple quotes in the same post? Is that possible? haha.

 

hey ron same here...thnx...see you around!

 

3 words; Speedbump, driveway, dip

second
is this what you meant?

 

No way! I totally disagree! Seriously, does it matter how low your car is for any of the three things you listed?!?

Even at stock height, you don't want to take a driveway super fast to the point where your ride height becomes a street driving performance advantage. If you take speedbumps superfast you are going to screw your shocks in the long run regardless of what you have, and who hits dips fast?!? What do you need to enter a driveway fast for? Am I wrong here? No offense, but seriously... Slamming your car is awesome and NOT any disadvantage performance wise. Yes, with a lowered car you have to pay attention to potholes and the such more than stock height, but lowering your car is giving you a cornering advantage, and depending on different things, some aerodynamic advantage to an extent.

YES! EXACTLY! haha... now can you please help me do that with quotes from other people without copy and pasting?!? If I click quote, it goes straight to reply with quote. Argh. I want to add quotes and then reply like other boards!

 

I'm talking about going fast over any of those, simply takeing them str8 on is enough for me.
Sorry, if there's a way do that, I don't know what it is.




ps,
I'm glad we can be mature enough to disagree, and not argue, posting our disagreements and helpful tips in the same post. I wish everyone on here was that mature.

 

Actually xSTANDxSTRONGx is right by saying that slammed cars do lose performance. I'm not sure why he used driveways and potholes to backup that claim. When i think of suspension performance, i think of quick turns and the ability of the car to go through them. I think engifineer has proved through tests and calculations that going over an 1.5" drop is going to start throwing down performance. Do a search on that and you can find one of his posts about it. But coilovers are sweet for the show factor.

edit: It wasn't engifineer who figured it out, i forget who.

 

I used those for examples, cause I can't think of the "real" performance loses, other than scraping the body on the outside of a (hard) if your springs aren't stiff enough. and driveways and dips in the road are the most frequent problems that I see in slammed cars, guys going in to a driveway at about a 60-45 degree angle

 

wat do u guys think about hotchkis springs???

i plan on getting those next week. and a lip kit in the near future, prolly bout a year.

do u think this will be a prob

 

also, each model has it's "lowering threshold." Once the lower control arms are passed parralel to the ground, you start loosing performance. So while one car might need 3" to get them "=" another car, might only need 1.5"