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Fronts and rear lowered for your viewing pleasure. Looks lower at standing height. Keep in mind that when photos are taken, for majority of cars, people crouch.
Finally! thanks for being the guinea pig on this, and for the quality pics.what seems to be the gap different from front to back? Looks like the RSR-Down drop, but with slightly less reverse rake in the back compared to RSR downs on AWD.
Also, what are your wheel/tire specs? Any feedback on ride quality as well on arks vs stock? Hard to tell from the pic, but is it similar gap now front to back, or is it slightly more drop in the back? Looks to be about 1 finger gap in the front, maybe half or flush in the back.
Last edited by cliffhokie; Jun 4, 2019 at 07:30 AM.
Fronts and rear lowered for your viewing pleasure. Looks lower at standing height. Keep in mind that when photos are taken, for majority of cars, people crouch.
Nice. Now I wonder how it'll fair in our Canadian winters lol
Here we go, gents -- front Downs and rear Halfs. Before install I measured the rear fender heights, and the left was a FULL INCH LOWER than the right. Insane.
These pics are just after the install and driving it around for a bit, one at eye level and one at ground level, but so far it looks great. Exactly what I wanted, car sits beautifully now. The Halfs cut the backs down just enough to even the stance. Of late the front gap has been right about 1/2" less than the rear, which is exactly the stated drop of Halfs. Will take more pics and measurements after a few days, especially to see how the L/R compare, and probably get the alignment this week as well.
I'll be lowering my '16 350 AWD on Ark Performance GTS w/ 19" Stance SF01s wrapped in Contis here fairly soon. (ARK GTS Springs are on sale now, fwiw) Also doing the calipers, pads, and a lip at the same time. If anyone is interested in seeing the before/after, I can post pics here.
Lurking in this thread has influenced my spring selection, so thanks for the motivation!
Excellent, exactly our intent -- to find out what works for us AWDers. What specs of wheels and tires are you planning on? Depending on your jack, good idea getting all that stuff done at the same time. With my lip and Downs on, even a low-profile jack won't work now so I have to drive up on 2x4s first, and ARKs will drop even more.
Excellent, exactly our intent -- to find out what works for us AWDers. What specs of wheels and tires are you planning on? Depending on your jack, good idea getting all that stuff done at the same time. With my lip and Downs on, even a low-profile jack won't work now so I have to drive up on 2x4s first, and ARKs will drop even more.
I've got some low pro ramps that should work out just fine, and a stack of boards.
You should be good on clearance for a jack. Im running arks on my RWD which drops more than the AWD and I can get a low profile jack under my car just fine. Same wheels too
You should be good on clearance for a jack. Im running arks on my RWD which drops more than the AWD and I can get a low profile jack under my car just fine. Same wheels too
No front lip though? The jack will go under mine, but there's not enough range to pump the bar.
Yeah, I didn't think it would do much either, but once I had it on (before the springs) I knew it was going to end up very low. I think it's up to 1.5" below the stock bumper.
Going to start installing these tomorrow morning. Doing the calipers and pads at the same time, so I hope to have them all together by the end of the weekend taking my time.
I've had the wheels on for about a week now. Honestly I'm a little underwhelmed with the offsets. For some reason I thought they would be right on the edge of what I could get away with, but I'll probably throw on spacers after the alignment.
Has anyone tried Eibach Pro-Kit lowering springs? I want to get my front end dropped at least 1.4" but I do not want to have to change the shocks or have any rubbing issues.... I'll probably add some spacers too. Thoughts?
