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Old 05-11-2004, 03:47 PM
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i wanna lower my bonne but i dont know how it'll affect ride comfort or anything else. anybody done it that would care to share?
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i don't think it would be a good idea but hey i dont know and i'm partial to leaving stock heighth
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Smellbird has, i've seen his car many times. I'll let him chime in, but he walks away from me in twisty roads, not cause of power, but cause of that

www.domesticperformance.com has the kit.
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Screw the kit just chop the stockers
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that would definately affect the ride comfort wouldnt it? i dont know too much about suspension though.
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DO NOT CHOP THE SPRINGS!
These are not mearly old school springs you can hack away at.
The springs are manufactured for a varying spring rate and tuned for more than just geometry. Trimming a spring would change its characteristics and the spring would fail under load and could cause an accident.

Run with Smellbird and enjoy the extra preformance of a lowered bonne
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Spend the cash and get the springs and struts, you'll have fewer problems later.

I'm starting to think about SSEi sway bars to get it even stiffer.
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are new struts necessary? i have no idea about this stuff i've seen adjustable struts and stuff and there are some out there are really frickin expensive and i dont think it'd be worth it for that kinda of dough but i have no idea.
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