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Lowest functional (performance) drop height with stock components

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Old 03-21-2011, 01:03 PM
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Default Lowest functional (performance) drop height with stock components

I am definitely buying a set of coilovers in the near future but i am not gonna have any money for suspension components for a while.

My question is how low can you drop the car before you go outside of the stock suspension components' ability to be adjusted back to stock suspension geometry/specifications (ride height excluded obviously). I saw somewhere that an inch drop is the most but i cant find it anymore. Was planning on dropping my car with a set of coilovers and getting alignment done with uk specs.

Any info is appreciated

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the limiting factor of using the stock damper/shock is the dampering and the travel.

when you look at most lowering spring, you'll see two common thing: shorter over all length and higher spring rate(hopefully it's biased for your s2000 M.Y.)

the shorter spring length is there for the lowering, the high springrate is to shorten the travel because of the shorter spring. While you can almost install any spring, i would play close attention to the spring rate, there's a good number of the spring out there will not remotely match the stock damper/shocks

my recommendation: prokit or tein s-tech, not much of a performance gain but it's does the job of lowering without killing the suspension geometry.
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thanks for the info
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