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Old 05-10-12, 10:28 AM
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this thread is ridiculous
Old 05-10-12, 04:59 PM
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My SC isn't slammed or anything, but it's still tough to get around areas with huge potholes. I just go slow if the road looks bad and I make sure to plan out all of my trip beforehand.

The only real way around it besides raising your car up is to go with an air setup.
Old 05-10-12, 05:10 PM
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The thing is about the SC is that the from fender the frame is lower than it should. Wat you can do is bang it with a hammer like mad. Or you can tube it. If you know you're not gonna make it up a driveway or hatever just gun it through.

The GS is easier to drive sine there is. Lot of distance for wheel travel
Old 05-13-12, 03:38 AM
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whenever someone asks me "how do you drive that thing", i always reply:

"happily" ... lol
Old 05-14-12, 02:03 PM
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Originally Posted by KingPhilip
That's the difference between a grown *** man and kids modding cars. We pay attention to details to do it right.
grown or not if you do it, do it right the first time. Ive seen nice car that grown *** men have worked on but it still looked like a kid modded the car. In the end lowering a car is going to cost more not limited to the toll the chassis will take. Just floor it
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Originally Posted by scshinobi
grown or not if you do it, do it right the first time. Ive seen nice car that grown *** men have worked on but it still looked like a kid modded the car. In the end lowering a car is going to cost more not limited to the toll the chassis will take. Just floor it
That's what I'm saying. Being a kid doesn't exactly mean you're young, it means you think like a child. My point is, you don't go suggesting "grinder solves all problems" on the get go. You gotta think first. If you grind something, especially at the part where you don't get to clean often, and not paint it or whatever, then its gonna rust, right? Not to mention you might damage a critical part of the car and weaken its integrity. So, to you is that doing it right? Not flaming anyone, just trying to make a point.
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i just wanna know how zachtriggs does it:

Originally Posted by ZachTriggs
final ride height I think

Old 05-14-12, 04:10 PM
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There's nothing to wonder about Jadu. He doesn't give a **** a bout his SC. Like he said in another thread, he had replaced his rack and pinion 3 times, and eventually broke his front cross member.
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Haha, i've had to replace my subframe due to me scraping through it. But i do care about my car, i just prefer it to be very low...
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And you find that funny, why?
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Originally Posted by KingPhilip
There's nothing to wonder about Jadu. He doesn't give a **** a bout his SC. Like he said in another thread, he had replaced his rack and pinion 3 times, and eventually broke his front cross member.
oh wow, i had no idea
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I daily my SC and its pretty low, frame is a couple inches off the ground. I still go over speed bumps ect though. And in the front one of the first things you should do is hammer the metal tabs above the tire flat. That with relocating the wire harness should be done at the same time. And I still have full fender liners up front too because it looks dumb without them.

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CalitriSC, do you mind posting pics of how you installed the fender liners? I'm contemplating on putting back on mine, cause yeah, it looks stupid without it. It bugs me a lot seeing the bare metal down there. And did you put the fender liners for the rear too?

I can still go over big *** speed bumps. Its weird that its harder to go through the small pointy ones.

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I definitely don't find it funny, i just put up with it.

Calitri, post some pics of the hammering you did if you could as well!
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Forgot to take a pic of how flat it is now, but you get the point.


The only reason I even considered to hammer it flat is because if you see the left part of it, its actually flat, but for some reason they made the seam to point downwards towards the right part of it. Probably for something the screws of the fender liner to hold on to.


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