for my stang i just reversed the front body clip. sanded the wheel wells so the wheels dont hit the fender. After that i took a dremel and sanded down the rear part the clip sits on. My 06 stang is so low the front bumber is 1 MM off the ground. Keep on moddin!!!

:) You cannot tell me that doesn't look great? Learn what pieces of art look like, before they're completed. ;)

1- Obviously the RSX is not finished, and the putty is not sanded down, hence it will not be all that good looking.

2- "Rice" is an Asian dish. It is not a name for a car. I accually had it last night at Pyong-Shash Chinese Resturaunt last night. :lol:

ewww that rsx is ugly thats not lowerin ur car thats ricing it up RICER

The front end looks much better, nice job. Glad it worked for you. :wink:

Hey, great tutorial, I did what you showed for my WRX and thought I'd show some before and after pics.

Before....

After...

I think there is a slight improvement. Thanks Color0 for the tips.

i did it with a black rsx had a lot of extra parts in case it didn't work

I HAVE NO IDEA Y I DOUBTED U
IT WORKED ITS SICK

Looks nice, but you realize this is about actually lowering the shell, not making it closer to the ground.

The point of the exercise is 0 fender clearance. :wink:

Another way to lower your ride is using putty. You can get more information on selecting and applying putty to your car at your local hobby shop.

actually this tutorial enhances performance ALOT because the axmods roof is thick heavy plastic an dthis tut lowers it very small ammount that STILL MATTERS great tutorial except for the fact i ruined a supra doing that today

car looks koool. I would like to try it.
On question...after you remove the matterial around the wheels did you paint it or not? thx.

how do you lower the back?

great tut but how can i raise it back up cause i have a wrx and i did what u said but the tires are hitting and i cant deem to do it. also the chassis looks out of place from the body like its crooked and i think i sanded it down way to much so can you help me out?

does dat work on any car? wat does lowerin do for your speed? looks tight though

peace 8)

is it the same for the 65 mustang, color0 i would like to lower it a lil bit to give it more of a street rod look but not all over the floor though

thx

I just got my vette yesterday and am prepared to lower. But it looks like the crystal and the top of the steering servo hit the chassis as is. Cutting the new slot to lower it means a lot of dremeling to get them to clear. Enough that I am afraid the windshield may end up with a hole in it due to so much plastic needing to be removed.

i had a extra set of springs so i tryed to cut them and it sits so low now. i am afrade to drive it out side but on lanoliem works ok

im not sure if this will work on other cars, but on the supra, you can save quite a bit of work on lowering the front by flipping the front clip upside down. you may have to drill out bigger holes for the suspension, but otherwise it is much easier than cutting parts and gluing them back together.

i sold both my corvettes before this was posted, so sorry i couldn't try it.

probably not... for the corvette i would recommend cutting a new slot for the front clip to go into. see www.mini-z-bar.com/page105.html

i know this is a bit late :lol: but on my car(i feel like a noob saying this) the front clip is alread down as low as i goes..... :? if anyone has a suggestion(i have the vette) please tell me if i should modify the front clip at all :wink:

Thanks,
Todd

i cut it off, and glued it down LOWER... :wink: then i sanded it to make sure nothing was protruding.

I'm a little confused on the front clip part. So, you cut it off, and glue it back on. Why cut it off? Why not just... sand it....

i did a tut like this a while back except i just changed out the whole front clip with one from the sky line or another car the skyline goes down and the civic is the highest going up i think the supra is straight and the rsx goes up slitghtly so all you do is take the skyline clip on the front and put it on the civic or any other car an the front is lowered as for the back judt do it the same way he did

awesome tut. Worked great

sorry bout that, i was away...

sure, go ahead. now that there's a tut section :P

color0 With your permission (and when Kai is finished setting me up) I would like to move your tutorial to the NEW TUTORIALS INDEX. Please let me know ASAP. MOST LIKELY it will be a sticky there, but you need to wait for Kai to finish giving me my moderator abilities.

This mod lowers your body not the chassis so it won't decrease or increase body roll but you are right, if you lower your car, it will decrease body roll making it a better handling car.

note: (for ppl with stock suspension)...... once u lower your car you will notice that theres less body roll

thanks anyways :wink:

i found that to fix the positive camber in the rear you can put little dabs of superglue on the rear body mount where the suspension arms hit it. it stops the arms from swinging up too high, thus keeping the rear wheels flat on the ground.

if i were a mod i would but obviously im not :cry:

so no sticky? :D

word of warning for supra owners: you will have to manipulate the body a bit more to fit the chassis. after all i did, the body seems to be posing some restriction to the chassis. so i'll check it out and report back later.

good tut i might try it

good :D

now i can see the pics

nevermind :) i moved all the pictures to my xmodworld gallery, now they always work and load faster too.

hey rob, how come it takes so long to move a 20kb file onto your ftp? just now i was copying a pic and it suddenly gives me error message "operation timed out". what the... :?

btw, my supra has had the 3.3k resistor mod as well as the lowering, and i haven't had any problems with rubbing. so for anyone who doesn't have tite-turnz (or a similar upgrade) rubbing shouldn't be too much of an issue.

nice tut, but i dont think my rsx is to high, i think its too low!lol, with my body kit, my front practialy tuches the ground!

thanks alot. i'll move the pictures to rob's ftp as some ppl can't see the pics.

darn it, it takes quite a while to copy the files onto that ftp...

sometimes it works for me to right clikc and click "show picture"

btw, great TUT!!!

very good job, but i cant see your pics... it shows that little red X :?

Yea, you are only lowering the body not the chassis so other than the looks, there really isn't a performance difference. But very nice tutorial, well planned out and put together. Nice job. :wink:

thats a good tutorial!! :D

The "frame" is not any lower that stock doing this, only the body drops lower to the frame.

-Rob

I hope you're running a scuff plate. Nice work :)

yep, looks like it turned out well for you.

-Rob

thanks a bunch, teammnm. :D

the pics may take a while to load, sorry folks.

is this tut worthy of a sticky?

very nice, but might i add that it had been done before, but very nice VERY NICE~ :D

thanks
mnm