Cobra4B
05-25-2010, 10:22pm
Don't feel like typing up a long post, so long story short if you lower the car too much it will overly compress the shock reducing travel and taking it out of it's optimal operating range. Result is you'll be in the bump stops on anything but nice smooth roads. Around here nice roads are few and far between.
I always had my Z06 lowered about 1" over stock w/o issue... well w/ the vert when I put the Z06 bits on I decide to loewr it more than my Z06... I've been raising it little by little ever since... finally tonight I put it up another 1/2 back to "lowered on stock bolts" height and it's like a 100% new car... everything is improved.... amazing what happens when you're not getting into the bump stops.
Now if you get custom shocks or coil-overs then you're good to go.... just trying to save some folks the trial/error of slamming a C5 on relatively stock components.
-Brian
I always had my Z06 lowered about 1" over stock w/o issue... well w/ the vert when I put the Z06 bits on I decide to loewr it more than my Z06... I've been raising it little by little ever since... finally tonight I put it up another 1/2 back to "lowered on stock bolts" height and it's like a 100% new car... everything is improved.... amazing what happens when you're not getting into the bump stops.
Now if you get custom shocks or coil-overs then you're good to go.... just trying to save some folks the trial/error of slamming a C5 on relatively stock components.
-Brian