1st Serious Mod Time - Suspension Rennovation
04-08-09, 03:26 PM
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- How much suspension travel do you gain with the K-Sport over stock?
- How much suspension travel do you lose with Tein springs and GR-2?
The roads here in NJ/NYC are terrible, so I don't want to be bottoming out every so often.
- How much suspension travel do you lose with Tein springs and GR-2?
The roads here in NJ/NYC are terrible, so I don't want to be bottoming out every so often.
04-17-09, 04:00 PM
#93
Unless someone measured their suspension travel before and after their upgrade, I don't think they're going to be able to give you a measurement of their loss/gain in suspension travel.
04-17-09, 04:36 PM
#94
It's been a crappy rainy day here in Texas today. This doesn't have a special setting. The car is dirty from the rain. And I shot these using my camera phone, but when I walked up to it on the way home, I knew I had to shoot it and get some pics to share with my CL ES bros after all this work.
For reference, the car is level measuring ground-point distance along the car from the front to the back. Yes, I've measured several times, thanks to the OCD, since the tuck of the rear wheel combined with the lower wheel arch compared to the higher wheel arch of the front, create a first-glance-optical illusion that the car is ever so slightly lower in the rear. *lol* I like level, so I had to check.
Tonight, I'm going to more aggressively roll the fenders all the way around, perhaps with a slight pull, to eliminate the residual tire-rubbing.
Then I'm going to drive the wheels off of her on the twisty backroads at a charity race spirited cruise on Sunday afternoon, alternating between the SC and the ES (the wife loves real driving too) for some all-Lexus, all-tuned-suspension fun.
For reference, the car is level measuring ground-point distance along the car from the front to the back. Yes, I've measured several times, thanks to the OCD, since the tuck of the rear wheel combined with the lower wheel arch compared to the higher wheel arch of the front, create a first-glance-optical illusion that the car is ever so slightly lower in the rear. *lol* I like level, so I had to check.
Tonight, I'm going to more aggressively roll the fenders all the way around, perhaps with a slight pull, to eliminate the residual tire-rubbing.
Then I'm going to drive the wheels off of her on the twisty backroads at a charity race spirited cruise on Sunday afternoon, alternating between the SC and the ES (the wife loves real driving too) for some all-Lexus, all-tuned-suspension fun.
05-07-09, 10:55 AM
#97
I LOVE IT when you walk out, and, lo and behold there's an ES bro parked next to ya.
In this one you can REALLY tell the difference in the stock ****-up-in the-air stance versus a (meticulously, painfully-achieved) level stance:
And sometimes you adapt, de-sensitize, or get used to changes you've made on your car and it's not until you get something next to you for comparison/contrast that you realize - wow - it DOES make a difference!
Coilovers versus Stock (no disparaging it; u like it, rock it!)
I don't understand why Lexus won't at least TRY to make the cars more level. Bimmers have AMAZING wheel-gap control. They come really hunkered down.
In this one you can REALLY tell the difference in the stock ****-up-in the-air stance versus a (meticulously, painfully-achieved) level stance:
And sometimes you adapt, de-sensitize, or get used to changes you've made on your car and it's not until you get something next to you for comparison/contrast that you realize - wow - it DOES make a difference!
Coilovers versus Stock (no disparaging it; u like it, rock it!)
I don't understand why Lexus won't at least TRY to make the cars more level. Bimmers have AMAZING wheel-gap control. They come really hunkered down.
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