I feel like I've been spending too much time on this sight lately.
Short story: my car is riding too low and it's causing issues with clearance everywhere.
When I put together the 8.8, I used taller perches to lower the car with stock springs. Installed hotchkis springs and they lowered the rear even more. Now I love the look of this car squatting, but unfortunately it's too low to be fun.
Currently, she's sitting at 24 ¹/2" inches to the bottom of the lip in the rear, which forced me to set the front height at 24 ³/8".
I'm assuming the best option is to cut off these perches and replace with a shorter option. Hoping to push this off until winter when I have more time.
Option 2 would probably be some sort of front spring hanger that lifts the rear end an inch or so. I haven't found one yet but it looks easy enough to make
Inot sure the cons associated with option 2, and I really don't like the idea of longer shackles. However I proceed, safety and handling is high priority.
Rear end is a shortened 8.8 with hotchkis springs and bilstein rcd's.
Front end has 1.08 sway away tbars, boxed lca's with delrin, qa1 strut rods, offset uca bushings, proforge ball joints, hellwig sway, bilstein rcd's
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