JoeGS300

anyone experience massive scraping? i was talking to todd at TM Engineering and he says the lip is so big that even with stock suspension it might scrape... i want to lower my car about an inch--- is there massive amounts of scraping? please help!

Neo

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Anytime you lower the car and lower the body clearance, you run the risk of scraping. I would not call L-Tuned/TTE massive scraping but there are some. What tire setup are you running? If you are running fat, then you are probably OK for 90% of the time. You still have to be careful with some speed bumps, dips, some parking entrances/exits, and parking blocks. If you are running the normal setup, then you definitely need to be careful.

You won't be as bad as others with lower kits or more slammed drops, but you will scrape.

AlphaJZS

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With a TTE lip and L-Tuned suspension with 19's on ....lets say FAT Setup....you will NOT scrape on much of anything unless you are just being rediculously irresponsible.. The L-Tuned suspension itself is really not all that low...the L-Tuned sides are really not that low either...neither is the TTE lip... The only time i could see you scraping is if you go over speed bumps too fast, or going up a steep driveway straight on without angling a bit.....

Neo

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The L-Tuned skirts are actually pretty low, not as low as a few others out there but it is low enough to cause problems. There have been times where the lip cleared a speed bump and on the way down, it would rub the skirt.

The L-Tuned sides are deceptive since it angles up in the middle so it does not seem that low.

Again, if you are running the fat setup, then you will be OK most of the time like I said earlier.

Shyne

yea when they had that ltuned clearance, i was going to go ahead and rebuy my l-tuned sides because I have scraped them quite a few time on speed bumps b/c they are so low...my car is l-tuned so with the l-tuned suspension the sides scratch occasionally but I figure who's under my car to care??? Shyne

DaveGS4

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I would talk to Todd and see if he wasn't thinking about the Greddy lip, not the TTE. Like others have said, the TTE is pretty mild. I ran it with my Eibach / Bilstein on OEM 17's and 18s with very few scrape issues. When it did scrape, I'd say the OEM bumper would have too (steep inclines, 'beaching it' while parking). With 19's and coilovers set lower than your L-tuned will be I scrape from time to time, but ususally under the same conditions.

JoeGS300

thanks for the responses guys- yes i am running fat set up 245/40 on falken zr 94y tires. i was actuallly seriously thinking of modifying my suspension until i cranked out some numbers and spent all my bonus on my car audio

at least im going to have a kick *** system pics and specs to come.

rominl

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yeah this is what i think too. somehow i think todd was talking abot the greddy.

but don't get it wrong, the tte isn't low,but the BIG problem is that it's flat across the whole front. if you look at the stock bumper the center actually curves up. with the tte, "effectively" it's a lot lower and you will have to be very careful. never go straight up driveways or you can say byebye a lot faster

alister

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I've wondered this as well.

On a sidenote, is there a link to pics of the "fat setup" as well?

rominl

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try to look for pics of bitkahuna's car, he has fat setup.