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Originally Posted by kojak38
no i was wanting to know if i could go the cheapest way by putting shocks on it and was wanting to know if i could do that? becuz i have a slim spending budget and was thinkin shocks would be ok but wasnt for sure. i dont want to spend a fortune by getting drop struts and springs becuz they dont go low enough for what i want unless you know any good websites. the only ones i can find are like 1.5 to 2 inch drops and i want to go like 3 to 3.5 inches.
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whatever you are smoking, SELL IT because it's some potent stuff and you'll make a good buck or two off it.
3.5" drop will destroy any handling characteristics the car had at any point in time...... the geometry will be WAY WAY off, the camber will be screwed up, you'll have NO travel and it'll bottom out unless you use really stiff springs
and there's no such thing as "drop struts".... you just put different springs on your regular struts, except you will need new struts that are capable of handling the high springrate of drop springs without dying in like 5 miles.
and wtf are you talking about putting shocks on a FWD unibody IRS car?! you can't put shocks on a car like ours! the BRAKES mount onto the struts. You want to get rid of half your stopping power AND destroy your handling?
honestly... who told you this ****? whoever they are, should be shot in the kneecaps, then in the face. Do you even know what shocks are? They are the same basic design as what a strut is except on RWD cars they are mounted separately. They control the expansion and contraction of the spring. The spring is just a coil on FWD cars, or on RWD cars it can be a leaf. The yellow thing is a shock. Note how you have a shock and a spring... you can't ride on shocks alone... they are not self-supporting.
