Dropped! My Weekend Project
What a PITA! But I think it was worth it. Total drop, 1.75". No measureable change in camber or toe. Drives straight, coasts well, corners much much much better, ride much bouncier.:D
Oh well, you can't have everything.:cool: Before: https://img455.imageshack.us/img455/1787/dcp59551nk.jpg After: https://img305.imageshack.us/img305/4086/dropped6ww.jpg I have reduced my frontal area by 28 square inches! Thats gotta be worth a few MPG's!:D Car wash, courtesy of Dawn dishwashing liquid. Waxed 6 weeks ago courtesy of McGuires. Curent tank, 300+ miles, SuperMID says 50.9 MPG. Digital Fuel gauge says 53 MPG. |
wow, I had no idea that 1.75
wow, I had no idea that 1.75 inches would make such a noticable difference. Kinda makes me want to play along too and lower my ride.
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Woot woot. How'd you measure
Woot woot. How'd you measure the toe I wonder?
You can indeed have everything, but it'll cost like 400 bucks in suspension parts. Also, take my some pictures of your IM/TB set up! |
nice! the bumpy ride...
nice! the bumpy ride... that's my holdback on dropping my car.
so... reduced frontal area, less airflow going underneath the car, decreased height:length ratio, and now you can corner faster to conserve even more momentum. good work. if/when i do it, it will be with spring clamps or a coil-ectomy via sawzall. |
Don't hack up your springs,
Don't hack up your springs, they'll sag and do nasty stuff, y0.
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that's been debated to death
that's been debated to death on the teamswift site.
people are pretty evenly divided on new shorter springs vs. cut springs - a bunch of guys have cut off one coil (1 coil = about 1 inch) and say it works fine; no adverse effects (aside from worse ride, which you get with coilovers and shorter springs too). everyone agrees that using a torch is not the way to do it though. a cutoff wheel/angle grinder is recommended. |
Honda-tech is pretty
Honda-tech is pretty unanimously against doing it, and there're lots of horror stories about it too, even without the torch, :p
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I before I started, I placed the end of a tape measure in the center groove of one tire and measured to the center groove of the other tire. I measured as high as I could on each tire and still have the tape go across, about 45 degrees up from the ground. 58 1/6 inches before and after the lowering. That is as good as I can measure with what I have at home. Also, the car still drives straight and coasts very well. If there was a toe problem, the car would wander and coasting would be affected due to the tires working against each other. I just now measured camber by standing up a 2 ft level and holding the bottom against the outermost part of the tire at the bottom. Once level, I measured from the top outermost part of the tire to the level. The difference from top to bottom was about 5/8". The diamater at the widest part of the tire is 18". So Arctangent(.625/18)= 2 degrees. So my eyeball is off. :-) I just took some pics of the IM/TB. Let me know if you need more detail https://img385.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dcp59966eh.jpg https://img454.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dcp59950at.jpg https://img454.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dcp59941gd.jpg https://img454.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dcp59933tq.jpg https://img385.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dcp59966eh.jpg |
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Did you measure the
Did you measure the difference between the front and the back of the tire?
Thanks for the pictures, checking them out now, a super close up of the fuel rail where the fuel line attachs would be good, mine sprayed massive amounts of gas upon startup. |
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