08-12-2013, 01:02 PM | #15 |
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I would not lower my car due to clearence issues and the teeter totter effect on driveways becoming worse.
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08-12-2013, 01:18 PM | #16 |
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Yeah...as much as I want the wheels gap closed I cannot bring myself to put lowering springs on a machine like ours. So perfectly balanced and well thought out, I cant see myself ruining that for appearance.
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This +1
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08-12-2013, 01:59 PM | #18 |
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Sometimes I wonder if companies such as Chevy and Ford are in bed with the aftermarket companies. Why else would the Camaro and Mustang have such ugly fender/wheel gaps? There is no such gap in the Corvette which handles a track as good as any car. I lowered my car purely for aesthetics. It looks so much better from the side view now. The only negative to lowering is now it further shows the crappy front wheel offset even more. The front wheel sticks out past the fender.
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But the suspension that I'm going with is track proven with the Lingenfelter L/28, so I'm hoping it's low risk. We shall soon see, I am about to pull the trigger. Here's what the final config is: Pedders components: Camaro Supercar Coilovers
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Check out the C7 as there's plenty of well gap. Consider this, if you "just" went with lowering springs you've altered the suspension for looks and lost compliance.
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That is a great setup, and if I could..I WOULD!
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08-12-2013, 06:04 PM | #24 |
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Well you can drop the back of the car 1/2 with a ZL1 rear spring . It with go a long way to even the ride high front to back
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1leNPP, damn that looks so much better with its ass end down from the stratosphere, lol! I'm going for track performance first, but clearly another big benefit is that the car will look so much better lowered as you have.
Did you do anything else to the suspension besides rear springs?
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I have only put the ZL1 spring on the back of the car, other than that its all stock . Now that spring has a higher spring rate than the stock spring so in theory it should act like putting a bigger rear sway bar on the back of the car and make for more oversteer . Now with the first alignment the back of the car just did not feel like it would stick .The rear alignment had a camber setting of -1.04 L and -1.13 R a total toe of .24 with a thrust angle .05 and to me just did not feel good , I did not trust the back of the car .
So I took the car back in and had the car alignment done again . This time around I told them to take the camber down to -.500 on the rear and this is what I got -.560 L and -.490 R , Cross camber -.08 , Toe .06 L and .05 R Total Toe .12 , Thrust angle 0.00 . Man that was a Night to Day change in the way the car handled . I now can trust the way the back of the car feels . The back of the car feels planted now. The car may still need so more fine tuning like a Adj. front sway bar or play with a bigger tire on the back but over all I really like the way the ZL1 spring has work out for me. The ZL1 rear spring part number is 20942619 and they were like $55 dollars each and I them got from GM parts direct . |
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I checked out your Facebook page, yes it seems to be working just fine for you! You are living the dream. Any comments about the coil overs? Worth the extra coin? Hard to dial in?
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