lowering your car

how hard is it to lower your car? i know you need to replace the springs... and maybe the struts (but i heard struts don't have to be replaced... the factory ones will just wear faster). i am looking into lowering my car a good 1.5" or so. anyone who has done it... is it worth it? check out my car in the gallery.

i don't think it is that hard, but any car look better lowered so do it

If you do it yourself, you need a spring compressor and some basic tools. But be wary. When the spring is compressed it holds a lot of energy and could literally fly through a concrete wall if suddenly released from its compressed state.

i would like to try that but it is not a good idea to do that

poem wrote:

If you do it yourself, you need a spring compressor and some basic tools. But be wary. When the spring is compressed it holds a lot of energy and could literally fly through a concrete wall if suddenly released from its compressed state.

sounds difficult to install

not if you know how or have some one helping that know. it also help to put a chain around them so if they do come out then they will not fly so much

alexwbush wrote:

poem wrote: If you do it yourself, you need a spring compressor and some basic tools. But be wary. When the spring is compressed it holds a lot of energy and could literally fly through a concrete wall if suddenly released from its compressed state. sounds difficult to install

Here is an article to give you an idea...

http://www.team-integra.net/sections/articles/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=494

poem wrote:

alexwbush wrote: poem wrote: If you do it yourself, you need a spring compressor and some basic tools. But be wary. When the spring is compressed it holds a lot of energy and could literally fly through a concrete wall if suddenly released from its compressed state. sounds difficult to install Here is an article to give you an idea... http://www.team-integra.net/sections/articles/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=494

i'm not a member...

me want airbags


silentalero...how much was it to get the air bags installed? i could probalby install the compressor and valves and ****. do you know if it would be possible to do it myself?

ok....springs are a pain in the ass......once you get it out you will spend forever cursing yourself to hell for doing it because they are a ***** to get back in....at least it was on my truck..but yes you will need a spring compressor.....

cheesy-im with you..i want bags...i hoping to get them in a year or two at most..air ride makes a nice kit for my truck where the bags just replace the stock shocks..they bolt right into where the shocks go...you should check to see if they make those for your car i dont know for sure if they do all i know is they have them for my truck...thats probably what i will get when i do get bags

http://www.ridetech.com/

i'm sure they do make a bolt on kit for my car...i mean come on, its a civic! (i'm fact i've seen at least one kit) the only question is price and installation...

Ok, Bags are anywhere from $600 - $1200 per kit (4 bags, compressor, line, and tanks) or $70-$120 per bag (plus compressor and line and tanks). It also depends whether or not you want fast bags, StylinConcepts advertises a 5 hp compressor to fill your tanks quickly (which makes sense for fastbags) , but the compressor alone is $600. So it all depends.

Vice, were u referring to the RoadGrater system? That thing is sweet, 12" DROP! and you can lay frame on 20s. CRAZY!.

what are good companies and good types of lowering springs i have heard there aredifferent ypes i too am planning on having my car lowered

Ok.. that's it.. when/if Phil makes me admin/mod on here, one of the first things I'm gonna do is /whipe all posts on or before 30 days ago =P

Damn resurrections....try Stillen for all your nissan/infinity needs.

Mav wrote:

Ok.. that's it.. when/if Phil makes me admin/mod on here, one of the first things I'm gonna do is /whipe all posts on or before 30 days ago =P

that's dumb, what is a topic with a lot of info is 30days old. Those of us that search would lose out and have to ask again, and end up **** everybody off.

well you gotta draw the line somewhere, and the majority of people don't search anyways, they just ask again, and we answer again... 50% of the posts in history are probably repeats of other posts, so it doesn't make much of a difference anyways. Wipe out the old ones, and then we aren't sitting here taking the time to answer a question that's a year old, originally posted by someone who probably isn't even a member anymore...

I guess the point is people don't use the search engine, but we still answer the questions. Why should we waste our time answering 1 year old questions for nobody? =P

I like having all the old stuff around....

DragonJeep wrote:

I like having all the old stuff around....

agreed...but i think that some posts are just useless or get outdated and could be deleted.

It would be tedious work to go deleting all the "useless" posts.

well the thing is once u get all of the useless ones gone u can start labeling the new ones and when they get older u can delete em easy. i personally like having old posts around, its funny to see how diff ppl were like a year ago

if some people didn't bring them back for no reason then it wouldn't be a problem having old posts around.

hey man some times its jus funny to see peoples reactions when an old thread is brought back, i mean its no big deal really, just ignore the post

sometimes you don't notice it's an old post though until you've wasted your time giving an answer to the question...

Besides, if we got a FAQ file together and just updated it every once in a while as new questions came up we figured would be a repeat, then we wouldn't need to keep all of the old posts at all. We could have it autodelete anything 30 days old and older and there wouldn't be a problem.

well we would still have those old pointless files that give us amusement though what would u do about those. some of them are just pointless those can go u know

The best way to do it is make a FAQ page and all posts that haven't been responded to in 30 or more days are automatically deleted. If it's a useless just "funny" joke post, who cares if it gets deleted as there are always more funny/useless posts that will come in it's place =)

i dont get any amusement when dumbasses bring back old ass posts that have been dead for a damn year. quit kickin the dead bird

mmmm....roadkill, haha this is the second time this thread has been rezed, no one respond for like 5 months, then we can bring it back again

everyone is gonna yell at you for bringin up this dead post::
as DB put it-----quit kickin the dead bird

tell them to bring it, haha just jokin [/endthread]

600 - 1200? HAHAHA, yah, OKAY.

Silent Alero has hydroz, not air.

Air bags are NOT easy to install, and NOTHING is a direct bolt on.