Slamming 5th Gen Prelude to the max?
Hi guys,
I recently got myself a 5th Gen Prelude - stock as, but they're good looking cars and go pretty well so I'm happy. My last car was a CE Lancer 2 door. The Lancer was slammed on its guts using custom K-Mac springs and stock shocks (I modified the rear bumpstops). I had the K-Mac's resized a couple of times, I believe in the end the rears were 5 inches lower and fronts 3.5. Surprisingly 18s just managed to squeeze under the guards and this gave me the look I was after. :cool:
Now with the Prelude, I plan on keeping it standard except for the suspension (actually just the springs). I'm not real keen on subtle lowering, my cars have to be super low. I'm not worried about ride handling or whatever, it will never be worse than the Lancer anyway whatever I do lol.
I am really CBF to stuff around with changing standard springs to the lowered ones and back a few times so I can get the springs resized to get the look I'm after. I probably changed the suspension set up on the Lancer 20 times all up, so I'm a bit over it lol.
Does anyone know how much travel the standard 5th gen shocks have? Has anyone here lowered their Prelude more than 3 inches? Got pics?
I don't care if the shocks die quickly, just as long as there is enough travel so the springs actually sit captive. Not super keen to cut bumpstops, but will if necessary.
Say if I wanted to do this...
Front - tyres to sit level with guard or up to 1cm under.
Rear - tyres to sit inside by 3cm.
What height springs am I looking at? I know someone will suggest to get a tape measure out and work out the distance, but from experience the springs never come back low enough, which means mucking around with resizing. :thumbdwn:
Thanks heaps guys, any help is much appreciated. :)