The trick is running a good shock, lowered or not..... I have a lot of customers running stock springs, mostly with Koni's since the shocks make the car work right.

apss.... you've hit your bumpstops, I know you have. They are in play with every spring set I know of. How hard you hit them, etc is determined by spring rate, height, shocks etc. If you look at your rear axle, you'll see the shiny spots where the bumpstops contact the axle housing.

 

I don't have QA1's, but even this is a form of lowering instead of using a bigger tire to fill the wheel well.

 

Compromise, Its not a great word but its something you may have to do.

You can get the car looking exactly the way you want and know that there are places you just cant go or you can compromise a little and be able to drive the car wherever you want.

I am a drag racer at my very core but I have also had the car setup for handleing at one point, lowered, big wheels, the whole bit. I got tired of following my buddies around and being stranded in the street while they pulled into the local dairy queen. Scraping the crap out of the bottom of your car really sucks.

Good luck, hope you figure it out.

 

It isn't anywhere near that bad for me. My car is daily driven so I'd never go that low. I'm also rolling on stock sized 17" wheels and tires.

 

Had my 99 lowered 2 inches. I went thrue a car wash and it ruined my steering rack. Snagged a line. They came off ASAP.

 

I would like to stay with my stocks springs but my car is a 95 and the body has 190k on it. Do you think the stock springs are at their service limit?

 

190k? Yeah they are prolly pretty wore out by now. You should be able to find someone with relativily low mile springs for sale because they have lowered the car.

Good luck.

 

can't you just mount some shocks on the lower shock perch on the rear to level the rear with the front?

 

Rear ride height is controlled by the springs, not the shocks. Unless you've done a coil-over conversion.