i just lowered my 99 z24 with eibach sportlines and kyb gr2 struts, and it looks great, yet it bottoms out all the time! every little valley i hit, i hear grinding from the passenger side. upon further inspection, i notced that there is a thin steel bracket that protrudes below anything else under the engine on the passenger side. at first i thought it was some kind of skid plate, but it runs vertically as apposed to horizontally.
can anybody tell me what that piece of metal is? If it wasnt there, i think everything would be fine. if you can tell me what it is, can you also let me know if it can be removed, made smaller, or relocated. please forgive my ignorance if any of that sounds stupid, as i am not exactly mechanically savvy.
thanks for your time
your gr2s are blown ... thoughs arnt ment for lowered cars specially the sportlines ... thoughs are stock replacements .. reason for bottoming out
you can see your self in the faQs area ...
Replace them with KONI's, much better product. The KYB's are just an all around horrible sturt in my opinion, like stated above, the GR2's are stock replacements and the AGX's are only good up to about 1.5" of lowering. Just my $0.02.
Yeah. Use Koni's on sportslines. GR2s are never going to control a drop like that.
II highly disagree with Alex, KYB is just like any other company. They design their products for a certain purpose. That purpose is clearly spelled out, and is not to exceed a 1.5" drop. They are an excelent stut. Any product would probabl be "horrible" according to you when abused.
umm... i doubt they are blown... they are 4 days old... and this happened from the minute i picked up the car... i would really just like to know what that piece of metal is that sits lower than everything else on the passenger side under the engine...
thanks
btw: when i say bottoming out, i mean the metal is scraping the ground... the ride is actually quite comfortable
oh i think thats our skid plate ? i always hit it ahah well not hit but more like scrape it .. i think it protects the tranny ? i could be wrong ...
Sounds like they are NOT botteming out, but you have soemthing hanging. I have never seen something like you are describing. Maybe during install, something got bent, moved etc... Are you sure it is not somthing that you ran over and it got stuck?
As said above for your drop those struts are nto the best.
well if something is scraping the ground on sportlines, perhaps they arent really sportlines, or perhaps someone cut em...
sportlines i have never seen them make a car THAT low...
and if you are bottoming out, then realistically it cant be comfortable.
Dave Ruiz wrote:umm... i doubt they are blown... they are 4 days old... and this happened from the minute i picked up the car...
They may not be blown now but give it a max of 5 months and the most likely will. I would try and get something better. Koni or Tokico. AGX is not for those springs
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I've never scraped on my sportlines, and I've had my first and car I have now with them for 3 years. Something must be hanging down.
Mylife75 wrote:Dave Ruiz wrote:umm... i doubt they are blown... they are 4 days old... and this happened from the minute i picked up the car...
They may not be blown now but give it a max of 5 months and the most likely will. I would try and get something better. Koni or Tokico. AGX is not for those springs
man he doesn't even have the AGX, hes riding on the GR2's.
Dave wrote:umm... i doubt they are blown... they are 4 days old...
C.T.S wrote:GR2s are never going to control a drop like that.
I didn't say they were blown. I said they could not control the springs in the first place.
azncav wrote:oh i think thats our skid plate
I've never seen a J-Body with a stock skid plate. I've never seen an aftermarket one either. Maybe some homebrew solution.
If you have something hanging lower than the enging cradle, something is wrong. Whether it's bent, broke, not part of the car, or whatever; it shouldn't be there.
The metal direcly under the engine is the oil pan. If you're scraping that then you will have much worse problems than a little scrapping in a few days.
Maybe the shop homebrewed some kind of skid plate... although I'd bet that it's something driven over or broken...
I have had my sportlines on my stock 2000 z24 struts/shocks for over 2 weeks now, they are doing fine at the moment** (getting koni yellows next year). Worst part of my install was finding my cambers were completely rusted out and gone... Ill get pics up tommrow.
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Subframe brace could sit lower... but thats back towards the control arms and subframe.
He may be talking about that bracket that goes under the oil pan toward the passenger side of the engine.
I used to scrape that every now and then when I was on sportlines when going over a speed bump too fast or something, though never during normal driving.
If that's what you're talking about... don't remove it! Better to scrape that thing than to mash your oil pan. If you're scraping it a lot then you may well have some sort of issue with the springs.
Make sure you have proper bump stops and get some struts that can handle the drop.
