Sport shocks/lowering springs

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T.Hanson
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Sport shocks/lowering springs

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COM May 2002. Time flies when you're having fun. Dueling 5's, dueling brain that's still sixteen with body that ain't.

Eibach's drop the car about an inch and a half. My 16 brain thinks it looks cool. Just know that HD shocks with Eibachs in the rear, leave the springs right on the hairy edge of dangling free at full extension. Probably not a problem within any legal driving parameters, but it's there to return catywompus if you decide to be Schumacher on a ramp.

Sport shocks are the obvious answer, save the post install view from the rear is suspect, for the camber angles looking close to silly. Good bye inside tread wear, in trade for who knows what super bite, roll grabby thrills around a ramp now and then.

Finally, with HD's the Alpina rears, with rolled fenders, still touch the tires ever so slightly to leave mystery (when?) marks. Visually still a mystery, the Alpina wheels in the rear busted the left tie down loop. They must be cut off.

Lowering springs require rolling the front fenders at least where they touch in a tight turn into a lot, driveway apron. Forgetting or being rushed by following traffic uses the fender as a sidewall shaver.

Conclusion: Eibachs (or lowering springs) want sport shocks in the rear, rolled fenders in the front, maybe rear with wider than stock wheels. What the cooler looks actually mean in true performance geometry, Peter may now comment.
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