I was wondering what would be good springs and shocks that would lower my car as low as possible while being able to fit 17 or 18 rims(cant decide yet), with out cutting out my wheelwell...And also what are the deminsions for getting new rims to fit correctly...thanks

Chris

 

Just remove the springs altogether. Or get Sprints...same effect.

Lower is not better.

 

Unless you ridin on Coilovers

 

If you want to go as low as possible, you should really look into coilovers http://maxmods.dyndns.org/index.php?MaximaCoilovers

 

Still, lower is not necessarily better.

 

Lower makes the car ride worse. The higher the better, but obiously you want to lower the car. A lot of people go with H&R's and Tokico's. Good combo. A friend of mine has cut sprint springs and Tokico's and it rides pretty nicely.

 

air ride = comfort + adjustability - all the money in your wallet

 

tein s-tech

 

SLAMMED on D2's is the way to go ! at least 4" drop for me

 

My '98 Max has Ground Control coilovers. 2.75 inches down in the front and 2.25 inches down in the rear. I have factory struts. The car sticks thru corners like crazy.
The ride is somewhat stiff but the coilovers are very easy to adjust.
I have MSR 17x8 wheels and Falken tires. 1" clearance from the fender lip
to top of tire all the way around. Tire O.D. is 25.4".

 

So you are riding a 2.75" drop on factory struts..

 

im riding on tein coilovers, lowered at the lowest setting front is at 3.6" and rear is at 2.9", no finger between tire and fender, and it handles like crazy, well along with fstb and rsb and im riding on 17's. ride is kinda bumpy, but every ride is bumpy when lowered that much. but honestly, is not as bad as people say it is, but comfortability, stock is always the best.

 

I've never hit the bumpstops. Even on large dips/bumps.

 

Also creates inconsistant turns. Especially on left after a right and vice versa.

 

Yes you have.

Reach up inside the wheel well and feel how much space there is between the top of the strut and the bumpstop. It's less than an inch.

 

No i really haven't. I know what hitting the stops feels like. My brother is riding on Eibachs with blown stock struts.

 

x2


p.s.

Sagemist maxes are the best.

 

Agree with you

 

air ride/ any airbags are the lowest you can go.

 

im riding sprints with stock struts...its not the most comfortable ride in the world..

 

I'm really really thinking of getting airbags... whats the ride like?
and who sells airbags for our cars, I thought southwest auto works did but I dont see it on their site anymore.

 

PICS.................

 

are you serious ant? i would spend the money else where, my friends car with airbags rides like crap. you could feel every bump

 

Check out his page and my page:

http://www.sounddomain.com/id/maximapeter


http://www.sounddomain.com/id/sittinonhubcapz


We post pics of our setup on the forums at least twice a week, so check out our homepages.

 

I dunno, I've really been thinking about it... I'm not really into the whole speed thing or racing.. I always thought it was more fun to lift and raise the car with the touch of a button but I'd like to know how it rides... if not I"ll just get coil overs and slam the hell out of it

 

o really? and drive where? lol not in NY

 

Same thing with me, its lke you cant speed or do nothing no more around here in NY cops bag you for any dam thing you do, plus its getin real dangerous. im thinking about fawkin all that speed shti, and spend all my money into my system, i mean we do have gles. and i dont know about you ant, but i know them chics love the leather! especially you take a car like yours and drive down to coronas, you get all those fine *** puertorican butterpecans

 

There you go! I'm going more towards a show look now... but I'd really like to see how air bags ride on our cars. If not coil overs all the way. .I was once into the whole speed thing and I have a few kills under my belt but its not worth it anymore, you learn to realize theres more than beating a piece of crap honda civic whos trying to catch up to you so bad that hes cutting everyone off and god forbid he kills someone while trying to catch up.

And yea its just nicer to sit back and have a pimp ride for the ladies to enjoy

 

has anybody tryed dropzone, how is the ride????

 

lol i would rather cut my springs then buy those man, come on dont you think it would ride like **** for that price?

 

i know for the price they would ride like **** but somebody here has to have them and say how they feel, im just considering them cause of that if they suck you can just get something else and it wont hurt the pockets much