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Lowering Your Car
Suspension
Thinking about lowering
your car to enhance its performance and appearance?
Related Topic:
Car
Suspension Tuning
 Customizing your suspension and lowering your car can offer performance benefits
and create a more aggressive look.
Find about how springs and shocks affect the performance of
your vehicle, and learn how low is too low when lowering your
car. In
How low can you go?
Buying suspension lowering springs.
See the dramatic
change in appearance that lowering a car will make on five
popular vehicles and see how Plus Sizing affects the
visual relationship between the tire’s sidewall height and
vehicle’s fender well gap.
How Low Can Your Go With A
Car Lowering Kit?
A good rule of thumb is that lowering a car about
1.5 inches will work without complications. Beyond that, changes in a
severely lowered car suspension may negatively affect ride
quality, tire wear and increase the risk of
"bottoming."
Increased spring rates are required to control vehicle
movement with reduced suspension travel.
Praxis suspension
kits usually provide the required higher spring rates using
progressive rate springs that minimize the affect on ride
quality. However, the more you lower your car, the higher the spring rate
required!
Vehicles must always be realigned when lowered. Severely
lowered vehicles often experience difficulty in achieving
adequate wheel alignment without the use of aftermarket
suspension adjusters.
Reduced suspension travel increases the risk of bottoming.
While bump stops help prevent bottoming damage, removing or
modifying them should only be done if instructed to do so by
the spring manufacturer.
Related Topic:
Car
Suspension Tuning
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