Trying to set my ride height on my 91 DA what does everyone have there’s set at?
There’s a few factors that matter here and really what any of us have our car set to. I mean unless you’re talking about a car that weighs exactly the same as yours does and has the exact same weight distribution including the driver and for use on a specific track, and for a starting point to dial in to your personal driving style…
There are a few things you need to consider. First what are you using the car for? DD, track only, occasional track duty, and if any track at all will it be auto X, lapping, time attack, circuit racing or the 1320? What suspension are you using and what supporting mods?
Then when you really boil it down, with a DD specifically what maybe shouldn’t but always does matter most it your personal preference. Take RoRo or Rayzian, 2 guys one with a DA9, the other a DB1. We all live within about 1h drive from each other and end up at a lot of the same meets and events. Now RoRo has a couple cars, maybe more I don’t know him all that well, met him a few times enough to know that for the most part, he likes to be as low as possible and we both have EG suspension, me because that’s what I had, him cause it let him drop more then other methods, Rayzian and his DB1, another guy who likes to be low as possible. Him I not only work with but I’m the guy who does most of the bigger mods to his car for him. Not that he couldn’t, just I have the tools and the space. I throw sparks from time to time and he’s lower then me. Now getting back to what the car is used for, well I use the excuse, my DB1 is my DD, I have another car that is more my project car for performance stuff and I’m working on a Volvo wagon for a grocery getter so my wife can have that and I can go back to doing as I please with the teg, but really I drive my teg hard on the harsh, Canadian winter beaten streets of a neglected pavement Toronto. I can’t get my car from my driveway to the street without hangin a tire in the air and scraping a mud flap at the same time, and I’m lifted for winter mode right now but as much as I drive a lowered car, sometimes it’s too low, other times I wish it was lower.
Sorry for a long read, but basically what I’m saying is if you’re gonna drop it, get coil overs so you can adjust it. Drop it, drive it around to settle it in, check the ride height to see if it’s still level and a height you like. When you have it where you like it, you’re good. Tho you’ll probably wanna change it up again later. Different rims can make you wanna lift the car a little for clearance, camber kits may make you wanna drop it to the floor cause you can. Look at cambered out stanced to the max cars. The owners are proud as can be about what they built, but if you drove it you’d likely think it was broken.
i think… he wants to lower his car just to do it…
i think there 9x out of 10 a lot of these questions are based on things that people want to do just to do them… like the guy that wants a 2 step or the guy that wants a aftermarket fpr on his stock b20.
it would be easier to just answer these questions with a straight forward answers and leave it at that. i think if they actually used their car for anything at all, they would mention it in their original question.
with that said…
lower your car until you are just higher than scraping…
done and done…
[QUOTE=DA_all_day;2291156]i think… he wants to lower his car just to do it…
i think there 9x out of 10 a lot of these questions are based on things that people want to do just to do them… like the guy that wants a 2 step or the guy that wants a aftermarket fpr on his stock b20.
it would be easier to just answer these questions with a straight forward answers and leave it at that. i think if they actually used their car for anything at all, they would mention it in their original question.
with that said…
lower your car until you are just higher than scraping…
done and done…[/QUOTE]
It’s slammed right now I wanna be able to drive around without worry, love the ride of my old set up Eibach Sportlines on Tokico Blues but wanted it little lower. So I may go TruHarts which are 1" shorter then my Tokico’s and my Sportlines which should get me to 2.8 front and 2.5 rear
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