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Before  After  Another after shot  Now in the rear the fender are trimmed, and the car still rubs like hell. I have found the problem. If you look under the rear wheel well you will see a metal piece sticking out. I will be hammering that in. I will post pics of this metal "piece" when I get a chance. The ride is pretty bad and I am using koni's. The car is very bouncy. I exepected that. My brother took a ride in the car, and he said he could not take it. He was grinding his teeth the whole ride. The looks are amazing. As you guys can see from the pics. Now I have a question if I get the subframe connectors. Will that stiffin(sp?) up the ride, and stop the car from being bouncy?
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hehe, man thats low!!! looks sweet man!
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I think you should get those pics a little bigger. I couldn't quite make out what kinda gnat that was a mile away. :p
As always your car is the Sh1te.
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Originally posted by Antonio Wright:
Now in the rear the fender are trimmed, and the car still rubs like hell. I have found the problem. If you look under the rear wheel well you will see a metal piece sticking out. I will be hammering that in. I will post pics of this metal "piece" when I get a chance. The ride is pretty bad and I am using koni's. The car is very bouncy. I exepected that. My brother took a ride in the car, and he said he could not take it. He was grinding his teeth the whole ride. The looks are amazing. As you guys can see from the pics. Now I have a question if I get the subframe connectors. Will that stiffin(sp?) up the ride, and stop the car from being bouncy?[/QB] Okay, looks sweet. Be careful when pounding on that piece of sheet metal, as it looks structural, and it's a mounting point for the fender liner. I don't know if the struts are completely compressed, but if you've slammed the car down, the struts may not be able to move, so try raising the car a little. The subframe connectors will stiffen the chassis, but not control the bounce, that's from the springs being stiff and the struts not controlling the movement.
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Looks great. But Dion is right. The lower you go, the less your struts move, making it a very stiff ride.
One other thing. Need to know what Type & Style those wheels are. They are sweet...
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Could be rubbing on tip of bumper too
time to yank out the dremel, as the hammer didn't do sh!t for me
got the shock stiffness up? you try different settings?
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 Wow your car looks great.. I cant believe how low it looks so you assume the total amount of drop that it gave you inch wise..So overall was it worth the money?? 
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In the "before" pic I was using H&R springs. As you can see the back of the car sits alot higher then the front. I use to have two 75 pounds of sandmix and the back of car.
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The fenders have been trimmed already.
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Yes I do suggest, but make sure you deal with rubbing issues.
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I dunno, I think I like it better w/ the H&Rs. I don't think I could stand bouncing around...I mean, how much better does it handle being that low? It takes some of the functionality out of the car, doesn't it? After all that, I must say, it does look really really good sittin' there.
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Hey Antonio looks very sweet.. I love the look of low cars  - I was just wondering, how many contours do you have? You have this one.. and whats with the other one that I see that is getting the blue water drips done on it? Whadever, they both look nice none the less..
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