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Old 10-13-2003, 08:15 AM
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I look at all the photos and it seems a couple of you have lowered your car. How much did you lower it? And how much am I looking at? I am not wanting expensive expensive? Are there known places i can go to get my camaro lowerd?
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Old 10-24-2003, 04:01 PM
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Get Eibach springs they go for $180 + shipping on E-Bay right now. Also if you haven't done so yet, get new shocks...factory ones suck. Some people also do relocation brackets and stuff, but from what my engineer friends tell me they have practically no effect on handling unless you lower your car more than 2" at which point the car will look absolutely ugly just like all those RICE low riders.

Eibachs will give you an ~1.5"drop and if you got 18" rims the car looks extremely nice. In order to save money on installation try to compile parts first and then install everything at the same time. I found that this practice saves a fortune at the shop. It cost me $150 to do springs and shocks at the same time vs. $300 if I had to do them separately. Good luck.
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Old 10-24-2003, 04:15 PM
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Yes I have Eibach pro kit which is about 1.2 to 1.5 inches. They are very nice springs. I also recomend relocation brakets to bring the LCAs back into line with the suspension geometry. If you lower the car the lower control arms are not at the same angle with the pinion, and need to be relocated downward to regain the pinion angle back to the correct #.
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Old 10-25-2003, 01:10 AM
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Hey thanks for the information.. I appreciate it :-) I will tell you what happens.
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