05-09 Exterior Modifications Making Your '05 Stand Out from the Crowd

Am I the only one who likes the stock ride height??????

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Old Feb 6, 2008 | 11:15 PM
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It all depends on your personal preferences and what you're going to be using the Vehicle for.

Mine is for just general Tooling Around (No Speeding or Dragging ) on
City streets, Highway and occasional Gravel.

So If we're Voting, I'm for Stock Height.


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Old Feb 7, 2008 | 06:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Water_Junky
... I went with a leveling kit that lowered the back end of the car 1.1", now the back sits .25" lower then the front and it looks perfect.

Terry
Whose leveling kit, inquiring minds would like to know?


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Old Feb 7, 2008 | 07:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Boltzman
stock height looks dorky to me,especially w/ stock rims and tires JMO
Chuck you don't fluff around! you cut thru the poo and tell the truth!....
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Old Feb 7, 2008 | 09:38 AM
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I left the ride height stock.
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Old Feb 7, 2008 | 10:15 AM
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Wouldn't leveling the car make it even more "floaty" at higher speeds? ...I can't be the only one who drives like a dumba$$...
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Old Feb 7, 2008 | 02:29 PM
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I like keeping it stock for the ride but I do like the lowered look alittle
as you fill the wheel wells for that look so what I did is keep it
shock and go with larger tires.







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Old Feb 7, 2008 | 03:10 PM
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Got vote for the stock ride height. Not that I don't like the lowered look because I do. But I lowered a 96 Cobra and would drag the underbelly on everything from curbs, speed bumps, half flatten raccoons and even in my gravel driveway. For that reason I won't lower this car. Put on a front spoiler, larger wheels and tires plus mine is a Vert which to me already looks lower than the coupes. I'm happy!! So add me to the stock ride height group!!
Scott
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Old Feb 7, 2008 | 09:01 PM
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I prefer the stock look. I see a lowered vehicle, right away I'm thinking teenager.
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Old Feb 7, 2008 | 09:04 PM
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The slight rake is good for you high speed driving fiends ... it promotes body down force and keeps the car planted. You don't want the front promoting lift at high speed.

I have resisted dropping mine any because I know I would need to do a number of other mod's to restore suspension geometry. And being the engineering i would have to do them.

Some of the posted pic's in this thread with the larger ties makes the car look good. All they might need is a little heavier front and read sway bar.

My 69 BOSS is lowered. I use to do SCCA Solo I with it many years ago. I looks ba-ba-bad. But driving on the street has its penalties. I have to be weary of steep drive ways and speed bumps. Other than that it handles like a slot car.
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Old Feb 7, 2008 | 09:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Centurion96
Whose leveling kit, inquiring minds would like to know?


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The leveling kit came from Canuck Motorsports. It was so easy to swap out the springs, I did end up adding an adjustable panhard bar to re-center the rear axle.

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Old Feb 7, 2008 | 10:15 PM
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Old Feb 8, 2008 | 07:24 AM
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i had a eibach pro-kit on my '06, but I bottomed out a few times and scraped speed bumbs, parking blocks, curbs, etc. plus now i have a job where the driveway into the parking lot is at a steep angle.

i'd like to lower the car with steeda ultralites but i don't want any clearance issues. stock height for me.
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Old Feb 8, 2008 | 07:36 AM
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As much as I liked the looks of my car when it was lowered, after installing the body kit made having a lowered car impractical. I kept scrapping the front fascia everywhere I went so I put the original springs back in.
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