I put a post in the image manip to see if someone could lower my car to about where the sportlines would drop my car to. Geeky posted a pic of his car compared to my car and my car actually seems to sit lower than his. Here is a pic of Skilz car that I found on his page on car domain.
Now here is my car and Geeky's car. Can anyone explain why my car seems lower than his is? My drop is 1.6"F 1.4"R. His drop is supposed to be a 1.7"F and a 2.3"R. Please let me know what you think and what could possibly be wrong here?
2009 Ford Mustang V6
Before someone points it out, the obvious difficulty in comparing my car directly is my tire size. I've got 215/35/18s. After some calculations, I estimate that my tire diameter is about 1" smaller than stock. This means that the radius is about 0.5" smaller, and thus the gap above the tire is about 0.5" more than it should be.
However, this just makes things more interesting -- since I'd judge from the pictures above that with a 0.5" handicap accounted for, our cars would be about dead-nuts even. You can see how much difference this makes by looking at the gap in front of the tire, since this would remain the same regardless of springs. Definitely strange.
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Yea it is kind of funny.
This is me on B&G's 1.6 all around!
Does anyone know if struts play a factor on how low your car is assuming the are brand knew?
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I'm running a 225-45-17 on my car with a 17x7.5" wheel with 40MM offset. maybe that why mine appears to be lower?
2009 Ford Mustang V6
The01Cav wrote:I'm running a 225-45-17 on my car with a 17x7.5" wheel with 40MM offset. maybe that why mine appears to be lower?
That would mean your tires a normal-size, since those have exactly the same diameter as my stock 15" wheels. That would mean that 1/2" difference I mentioned above does apply.
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Yeah I dunno it just doesn't make sense. It just seems that your car should set lower than it does.
2009 Ford Mustang V6
Well everyone I talked to seems to think that the tires are making the difference of how it looks. So I guess thats what it must be then. Thanks everyone.
2009 Ford Mustang V6
it does make a difference on how it looks. look at cars that have rims and arent lowered versus stock cavs. both have the same suspension but the cav w/ the rims make it look higher. since geeky has smaller tires than he should, it makes the gap look bigger than what it is even though he is lower than your car
I think what we need here is a pic of a different car with Sportlines and the correct tires, from pretty much the same angle. That would clear this up.
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yeah, the black cav is very close to the same diameter.
2009 Ford Mustang V6
Stock Z24 on Sportlines and D-specs. correct size tire!
2009 Ford Mustang V6
saggy springs !
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It's probably spring sag, or something mechanical going wrong. Your car shouldn't be that low on H & R springs. Maybe because you are using stock struts, something happened, and thus why your car sits lower than it should.
Geeky's car looks correct with sportlines, but yours sits noticably lower than it should. Are your springs installed properly? Maybe there is a problem with your strut mounts? Do you notice any noise when you drive?
no noise when I drive and nothing was installed wrong that I know of.
2009 Ford Mustang V6
Haha yeah thats your car. looks good like I said before!
2009 Ford Mustang V6
