Scraping with kit What to Do!
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Scraping with kit What to Do! What do you all do who have kits? Don't you scrape on everything with a lowered ride and kit? Its buggin me. 
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i kept my car dropped, if you drive carefuilly you won't have a problem, but i decided i wanted to go RS instead of evo, so i broke off my molded skirts and have a full ABS RS kit coming in.
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Originally Posted by varner88
im tucking 2 inches of tire on 16's with no kit and my exhuast scrapes so i need to get it redone
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Rep Power: 0 When you say you're scraping, do you mean going up ramps and driveways or just driving along the street? If you want to prevent scrapes going up or down inclines, take it roughly at a 45 degree angle (so that all 4 tires touch the incline at different times) and you should be okay.
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Rep Power: 368 Face it, the roads aren't made for lowered cars. I regularly scrape my splitter, midpipe, muffler, or xbrace on what seem like nice low obstacles. We're tuning our cars to look like a race car, but race cars drive on tracks with no speedbumps or driveway entrances. There will be damage, just a fact of tuned life. I got a splitter so at least I won't be scraping PAINT off every time my front end scrapes a driveway.
i used to scraped when i had my type b lip kit with arospeed 2 inch drop springs. the only thing i was scraping was my muffler only cause it sagged in the rear like hell. but as if now, since my car is redone i have no problems at all. just know your roads and calculate angles at certain dips and humps.
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Originally Posted by varner88
lol im on 16's and got 5 inch drop in the rear. my exhuast scrapes once in a while
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Originally Posted by varner88
lol im on 16's and got 5 inch drop in the rear. my exhuast scrapes once in a while
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I was actually gonna start a thread about which kits you guys would recommend since i'm looking into lowering the ride. i want about a 1 inch drop and no more than 1.3"
any suggestions for kits?
any suggestions for kits?
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Rep Power: 297 It’s all in the way you drive. Just like PunkingCivic said "Take the obstacles at angles (speed bumps, driveways, ETC)".
I did it backwards from what people say but I had reasons... I put the body kit on before I dropped the car. I know it looked stupid but I learn how to drive with a low body kit before I lowered it. So I could adjust to the height. Now I lowered my car an inch (Teins-H-Tech) and now I know how to drive lowered. I do plan on going lower in the near future. I think the reason the body-kit has lasted so long is because of me taking precaution. I had this body-kit put on in November 2002.
Also you will learn the long way around if you know that you will scrap no matter what... I do. As you can see below I do bottom out every once in a while... look at the bottom tip of my back bumper (the white spot).
Good Luck. Any questions just ask.
Edit: Yes it is daily driven and has 112,000 miles on it. And the body kit has majority of those miles on it too. I bought the car when it was brand new.
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I did it backwards from what people say but I had reasons... I put the body kit on before I dropped the car. I know it looked stupid but I learn how to drive with a low body kit before I lowered it. So I could adjust to the height. Now I lowered my car an inch (Teins-H-Tech) and now I know how to drive lowered. I do plan on going lower in the near future. I think the reason the body-kit has lasted so long is because of me taking precaution. I had this body-kit put on in November 2002.
Also you will learn the long way around if you know that you will scrap no matter what... I do. As you can see below I do bottom out every once in a while... look at the bottom tip of my back bumper (the white spot).
Good Luck. Any questions just ask.
Edit: Yes it is daily driven and has 112,000 miles on it. And the body kit has majority of those miles on it too. I bought the car when it was brand new.
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Rep Power: 370 I scrape my **** all the time... the front of my car is so low that when i slide my foot under my lip it touches. I think I have half a Pop can clearance... I love it. 
Just drive carefully
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i have the eibach prokit its a .9" drop from what they say. i think its a bit more like 1.25" on a sedan. i am very very pleased with it. ihad the progress springs prior and they sagged a bit in the rear. ride quality wasnt bad at all but i was having major camber issues with 18's so i opted to raise it up a bit with the eibach's. i am in love now and will probably never buiy another spring. perfect drop for 18's with a 225/40/18. only like a 1" wheel gap maybe 1.5" at most. and i dont have issues with scraping at all. but then again i havent installed my cf type r lip yet either so ill let ya know how that goes after the install
If it don't scrape, it aint low enough.
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lol dawg i'm just about ready to join the club. i wanna drop my baby and clear them headlights. maybe tint the rear windows get that OEM spoiler on....ooohhhh yeahhhh....
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Originally Posted by varner88
yea i got like a 5 inch drop im tucking 2 inches inside the fenderwall it self cuz of bad sag im waiting on coilover kit to raise it it actually looks like i have airbags and there dropped
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Originally Posted by varner88
yea i got like a 5 inch drop im tucking 2 inches inside the fenderwall it self cuz of bad sag im waiting on coilover kit to raise it it actually looks like i have airbags and there dropped
your not tucking 5 inches. maybe 1 or 2 tops. unless u count ur photochop. i've had my car lower but i raised it up to a decent height, and i dont really scrape much at all. i use to not be able to go over speed bumps, but not i am able too. you also have to learn the roads and where they suck and where you'll bottom out, and then compensate for that. like i kno on one road i have to stay on the left lane cuz the right lane is messed up and has construction or like you cant go down a certain road and what not. just kno ur limits.
u must have some mad camber problems. cuz u cant fit a 205/50/16 that far in the wheel well unless u really rolled ur fenders or what not. i have the same tire width and was tucking for a bit and it hit the tire with the fender wall.
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Originally Posted by varner88
ive got a 5 inch drop i sed and i also sed im tucking 2 inches of tire. i dont have pics in my member gallery but theres a thread floating around sumwhere it mite not look like it in the pics but im running sum beefy tires 205-50-16 heres the real pics if u dont beleive me i need to lower the front more and raise the bak a half inch. first pic is before it settled and second is after it settled
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