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Originally Posted by Student Driver
I know it isn't the most loved around here but i am really into the stance/hellaflush/cambergang type of scene. i am looking into getting a DD at the moment and once i do i plan on lowering my car pretty much all the way to the ground but i want little to no flexibility in suspension because the roads around me are tore up pretty bad. i know bags are the obvious choice and i could go that route but there has always been an appeal to me of the whole japan style and them being static and just how they do everything really...
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No, it doesn't get much love, and that's putting it nicely. I won't try to save the lecture, because you'll be putting everyone around you at risk driving a car set up like this, and it's worth the reminder - the roads being bad is a reason to have suspension that works.
If it's a trailered/show car, it won't be seeing the use for it to be a big deal, IMO.
If you attempt this route and daily the car, you're simply gambling on what fails, and how catastrophically, first. Could be the strut mounts or top hats, could be the shock, could be something else in the car. I have to assume you'll be nearly sitting on bump stops (if you have them) and who knows what that does internally for the shock (other than the fact that it's not a great thing to have no travel, except that you're kinda preventing travel with those spring rates). Lack of control over the spring if it IS being compressed to the limits of the remaining travel is likely to accelerate any damage the shock gets by bottoming it out repeatedly.
I'd put my money on crashing the car due to lack of traction as likely to happen before the shocks have issues because the valving is wrong for the spring rates.
C