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Slammed Third Gens - Post Pics
mine (i think) is considered slammed dropped about 3 inches total..
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just bustin your ***** man, car looks good!
I need to get mine out for a photo shoot, my car is lowwwwww
just bustin your ***** man, car looks good!
I need to get mine out for a photo shoot, my car is lowwwwww
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hahah i knew someone would post that :P thats just lowered..i wanna see SLAMMED!!
do work!! haha..get some pics
and thanks
do work!! haha..get some pics
and thanks
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holy smacks the firebird is clean, heres my 84 Z28. somewhat slammed. around 3 in the front and somewhere around 1.75 rear
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thanks dude!!
thanks!!
looks good dude!!
appreciate the kind words!
MOAR SLAMMAGE!! haha
looks good dude!!
appreciate the kind words!
MOAR SLAMMAGE!! haha
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what are you guys doing to get a drop that aggressive? adjustable coilovers? air ride? that look is awesome and would be amazing with my 17x9.5, 17x11 zr1's that are coming!
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bags are nice..but its a lot of extra weight and cash..coilovers arent good on these cars except in drag setups..
im not really sure..i forget the members name on here but hes on here..
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i have MOOG springs in the front (756 lb spring rate, quite stiff) with a coil and a half cut off and BMR springs in the back with no iso's...no iso's in the front either
bags are nice..but its a lot of extra weight and cash..coilovers arent good on these cars except in drag setups..
im not really sure..i forget the members name on here but hes on here..
bags are nice..but its a lot of extra weight and cash..coilovers arent good on these cars except in drag setups..
im not really sure..i forget the members name on here but hes on here..
edit: your GTA is sick btw haha.
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I noticed you said they're stiff. I've always known cut springs to = bounciest ride in the world lol. Is that not the case as I've never cut springs on my cars before? And if i'm not planning on doing any tracking or anything would you recommend I just cut the springs I have on the car right now? which are stock.
edit: your GTA is sick btw haha.
edit: your GTA is sick btw haha.
oh and what do you slammed guys do about speed bumps? haha
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Wow that white camaro looks amazing. I love the stance it has, and the way the tires fit just perfectly. Would love to see more photos of this car and some info on the rim/tire set up. How much is this car lowered and what brand springs did you use. Really like this car.
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I noticed you said they're stiff. I've always known cut springs to = bounciest ride in the world lol. Is that not the case as I've never cut springs on my cars before? And if i'm not planning on doing any tracking or anything would you recommend I just cut the springs I have on the car right now? which are stock.
edit: your GTA is sick btw haha.
edit: your GTA is sick btw haha.
okay..heres how it goes..
if you cut your stock springs..the car is gonna bounce just as much as it does now and its gonna bottom out on big bumps and stuff..
if you get the springs i have..which are stiff..you still scrape but not on big bumps..just steep driveways and dips..
so, if the streets are good around you..for now, go ahead and cut the stock springs but if you want a good handling spring setup..get the moog springs and cut em..
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haha..if it was slammed you will :P at least in this thread
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i need to get my pics up... hell i need to take pics ahahha..
i have moogs upfront with a full coil cut.. and stock 1LE rears with 3/4" cut and no isolaters
i have moogs upfront with a full coil cut.. and stock 1LE rears with 3/4" cut and no isolaters
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here is some of SpikeZ's build, its a beautiful car, it has air ride, so it can be raised when driving, dropped for show
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/memb...-my-build.html
as for the rest of you, how on earth do you drive with the car that low and not destroy it? my 92 is as low as is practical, 26" front 26.5 rear to the fender lips anything more and i would nto be able to get in and out of most driveways.
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/memb...-my-build.html
as for the rest of you, how on earth do you drive with the car that low and not destroy it? my 92 is as low as is practical, 26" front 26.5 rear to the fender lips anything more and i would nto be able to get in and out of most driveways.
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I am at 24.25" and 25.......lowered it the begining of 86, you just get use to doing the angle approach and sometimes going to a second entrance with a lower grade.....I cant remember the last time I had an issues or couldnt get where I wanted.
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me either..you really get used to it..you have to really change the way you drive..a lot more cautious more than anything..i scrape my air dam on any bump/dip and my exhaust hits sometimes but not to much to the point where it worries me..smackd my k-member a couple times too
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thanks dude! haha
okay..heres how it goes..
if you cut your stock springs..the car is gonna bounce just as much as it does now and its gonna bottom out on big bumps and stuff..
if you get the springs i have..which are stiff..you still scrape but not on big bumps..just steep driveways and dips..
so, if the streets are good around you..for now, go ahead and cut the stock springs but if you want a good handling spring setup..get the moog springs and cut em..
okay..heres how it goes..
if you cut your stock springs..the car is gonna bounce just as much as it does now and its gonna bottom out on big bumps and stuff..
if you get the springs i have..which are stiff..you still scrape but not on big bumps..just steep driveways and dips..
so, if the streets are good around you..for now, go ahead and cut the stock springs but if you want a good handling spring setup..get the moog springs and cut em..
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Spike has this thing nailed down, awesome car. Super clean, awesome components and he used the early GFX, IMO they blend in so much better,than the later ones.
Bitchin84, that's a great looking car you have there. Love the brown/gold combo w/ the Z28 GFX. Very nice!!
Bitchin84, that's a great looking car you have there. Love the brown/gold combo w/ the Z28 GFX. Very nice!!
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here is some of SpikeZ's build, its a beautiful car, it has air ride, so it can be raised when driving, dropped for show
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/memb...-my-build.html
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/memb...-my-build.html
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thanks man! yeah its my project/daily driver. its gonna stay like this till i get some paint on her.
thanks man! yeah its my project/daily driver. its gonna stay like this till i get some paint on her.
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Actually it gets driven alot and always has.......done 4 Power Tours over the last 8 yrs, last year Peoria IL to Newton IA. to Bowling Green KY.then back to Peoria, 5 days right around 1500mi.......hell we are going to Nauvoo for a show this Sunday that will be around 300mi round trip with no interstate all two lanes. It always makes me scratch my head when I see people on here saying they are scared to go very far with their third gen's
P.S. it had about 11,500 miles on it when I lowered it and put the blower on it in 86, has right at 80,000 now plus it sat for 7 yrs and didnt get driven.
P.S. it had about 11,500 miles on it when I lowered it and put the blower on it in 86, has right at 80,000 now plus it sat for 7 yrs and didnt get driven.
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Actually it gets driven alot and always has.......done 4 Power Tours over the last 8 yrs, last year Peoria IL to Newton IA. to Bowling Green KY.then back to Peoria, 5 days right around 1500mi.......hell we are going to Nauvoo for a show this Sunday that will be around 300mi round trip with no interstate all two lanes. It always makes me scratch my head when I see people on here saying they are scared to go very far with their third gen's
P.S. it had about 11,500 miles on it when I lowered it and put the blower on it in 86, has right at 80,000 now plus it sat for 7 yrs and didnt get driven.
P.S. it had about 11,500 miles on it when I lowered it and put the blower on it in 86, has right at 80,000 now plus it sat for 7 yrs and didnt get driven.
your camaro is awesome tho dude and its great that you actually drive it
please dont haha..
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Here is more on Spikes car. Have his picture album on my computer, which I randomly go and get highs on. :rofl
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This is how it used to sit. At this height you can't quite fit a pencil between the front bumpstops and the body. It looked cool and drove OK. but for real performance handling I didnt have enough spring rate to offset basically 0 suspension compression. When cornering hard it would bottom out causing the spring rate to effectively go to infinity and it would push really bad. Also, when the front is this low, the control arm angles are really poor which exacerbates the lower spring rate. This is really too low to be useful and is only good for looks.
This is how the car sits now. I raised it up and increased the spring rate and it is about perfect mix now. It has settled slightly from this shot but is still about the same.
This is how the car sits now. I raised it up and increased the spring rate and it is about perfect mix now. It has settled slightly from this shot but is still about the same.
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all looks good but this is the SLAMMED thread please only post pics of slammed third gens
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cant see how low it is from the pic but your car looks great nonetheless
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took some more today
(dont mind the rough body, its a project ha)
(dont mind the rough body, its a project ha)
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I noticed you said they're stiff. I've always known cut springs to = bounciest ride in the world lol. Is that not the case as I've never cut springs on my cars before? And if i'm not planning on doing any tracking or anything would you recommend I just cut the springs I have on the car right now? which are stock.
Think of a spring as a long metal rod. If you have a half inch thick metal rod that's 10 feet long and you hang 1000 lbs on it, it's going to sag. Coil it up and it becomes a spring.
If you take that same rod that sags 6 inches with 1000 lbs hanging on it, and then cut 5 feet off of it to halve its lenght, it will sag much less than 6 inches. Probably around 3 inches, maybe less, I forget the specifics, but it will be HARDER to move it. What happens when you cut stock springs is they get stiffer. Their spring rate increases which means you get a harsher, stiffer ride that is less prone to bouncing.
HOWEVER, the problem lies in the fact that the spring rate increases. It becomes stiffer, and the purpose of a shock (or strut) is to dampen the oscillations of a bouncing spring. Imagine the 10 foot rod, hit it with 1000 lbs momentarily and it will bounce back and bounce up and down on the end like one of those spring-based door stops. The shock/strut's job is to resist oscillations as much as possible - they dampen.
The reason some cars with cut springs bounce a lot is because they have shocks (usually factory or stock replacements) that cant handle the increased spring rate. They cant dampen the oscillations of a much stiffer spring, so you're in moonwalk zone.
You cut springs and put some good shocks with them, and you dont have that problem. My car doesnt bounce at all and my springs are cut, because I have some nice Koni shocks.
By the way, cutting springs on our cars is fine within reason, just dont torch them. It's a bad idea to cut springs on coilover cars, though. The front springs are linear rate springs, the rears are progressive rate, so the spring rate on the rears goes up VERY quickly once you start cutting coils, so the limit to cutting stock springs is in the rears. You can only lop off so much of them before they just become WAY too stiff to do their job. It's not a good idea to cut off more than about a half coil off the rear springs, but a lot of our cars got very different spring rates, so it's not always that easy. Getting v6 springs that are softer than v8 springs to cut and therefore lower the car is a good idea, actually. You can cut less coils to get the same ride height, and it wont be such a stiff ride. It'll still have a higher spring rate than a factory height v8 car with factory springs, but it will be a lot less stiff than those same springs cut to that amount.
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ohhhhh i didnt know thats what you meant by bouncing..i thought you ment like..stock spring softness bouncing..
Yes, the ride get bouncy but as said, only on harsh roads..you feel more stiffer you go..
with mine, being almost 800 pound spring rates, i feel EVERYTHING
but i can take a turn like the car is on rails..i have next to NO body roll
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Yes, the ride get bouncy but as said, only on harsh roads..you feel more stiffer you go..
with mine, being almost 800 pound spring rates, i feel EVERYTHING
but i can take a turn like the car is on rails..i have next to NO body roll
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