The problem with the Five Axis Body Kits

[Blue86]

I scraped my 86's front bar after about 4 hours of having bought it. Very impressed :-(

Then I scraped it again on my driveway backin out

[CharlieChaos]

Driving a lowered car with a kit on it is an art. Sometimes you need to be that asshole that does 2 miles an hour over a speed bump. Everything as people have posted is about angles

[deucethemoose]

Since I daily drive my MR2 with its front end being all of 2" off the ground I can say I've been there in most of these situations. Best thing you can do (endoctrinate your husband into this) is go slow and at an angle into and out of sketchy sloped driveways, over speedbumps, etc. and always park short, or snag spots that you can simply pull through.

[tnt]

that sucks cost almost half the whole kit. u can have it clear bra after u get it fixed

[Synack]

NEVER LET ANYONE WHO IS NOT EXPERIENCED AT DRIVING A LOWER CAR DRIVE YOUR CAR

It needed to be in caps. I only let ONE person drive my Nismo 370Z. And that's because he owned a 240 that was lower than mine and took care of it.

[GNS]

I would like to know why this car needs to be lowered even more than it already is.

[Synack]

Originally Posted by GNS

I would like to know why this car needs to be lowered even more than it already is.

One word: wheelgap

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Synack

One word: wheelgap

Wheelgap is better than scrappedbodyparts in my world! Honestly, if I lowered the FR-S I wouldn't be able to get out of my driveway without driving sideways.

[phillip]

Originally Posted by Synack

One word: wheelgap

Actually it's two words: wheel gap...

[Synack]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Wheelgap is better than scrappedbodyparts in my world! Honestly, if I lowered the FR-S I wouldn't be able to get out of my driveway without driving sideways.

Lol. There's a lot of us who would rather have it be very flush and look great and don't mind angling over steep objects.

[Synack]

Originally Posted by phillip

Actually it's two words: wheel gap...

Well I made it ONE word!

[switchlanez]

One of the sad truths of having a front lip. Good thing it's polyurethane and won't crack like fiberglass. There's an infamous "Home Depot mod" (google it) where you install door lining to save your lip from scrapes.

Originally Posted by GNS

I would like to know why this car needs to be lowered even more than it already is.

Copy/pasting from another post I made about this...

I believe ride height was raised from the optimal for the sake of civility (e.g. you won't scrape those concrete slabs or most curbs when you park) and was probably mandated by some government body. If you look at the Nurburgring test spy pics, the car has Enkei wheels with the same specs as stock (17x7 +48mm) but sits lower. This is where they spent 4 months truly tuning the handling characteristics of the car.



The optimal ride height, if you want to sacrifice some civility to get it to the original tuned spec, is quoted below by one of our esteemed members Moto Miwa (who has been in close contact with this car's chief engineer).

Originally Posted by Moto-P

LOL! Well teasing wasn't my intentions as much as I was just way too thrilled at already curing something that ever so slightly bugged me about the FRS, which is the somewhat harsh city ride, and that politics-legal-PD-induced monster truck ride height....LOL Good thing Tada-san was clever enough to work around it by specifying arms and rods that work over wide range of height, and secure dynamic travel that is consistent through motions. He even touched on the fact that the FRS/BRZ/86 suspension arms are ideal at 20mm drop!!

I'm waiting for the STI springs (in development) which will probably bring this car close to the intended spec.

[Synack]

Originally Posted by switchlanez

One of the sad truths of having a front lip. Good thing it's polyurethane and won't crack like fiberglass. There's an infamous "Home Depot mod" (google it) where you install door lining to save your lip from scrapes.
Copy/pasting from another post I made about this...

I believe ride height was raised from the optimal for the sake of civility (e.g. you won't scrape those concrete slabs or most curbs when you park) and was probably mandated by some government body. If you look at the Nurburgring test spy pics, the car has Enkei wheels with the same specs as stock (17x7 +48mm) but sits lower. This is where they spent 4 months truly tuning the handling characteristics of the car.



The optimal ride height, if you want to sacrifice some civility to get it to the original tuned spec, is quoted below by one of our esteemed members Moto Miwa (who has been in close contact with this car's chief engineer).



I'm waiting for the STI springs (in development) which will probably bring this car close to the intended spec.

Hmmmmm that's close to the Eibach Pro springs (closer than stock).

[Turbowned]

Thankfully the front lip on my MR2 is urethane, and I don't give a rat's ass about my paint. It's been folded over a number of times on curbs and steep surfaces. Just keeps on truckin'!