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    Offline cudabob496

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    Ride Height
    « on: March 25, 2016 - 05:47:24 PM »
    put new QA1 shocks on front. Now front sits about 1 inch lower?
    Didn't know that replacing shocks would do that.
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    Offline blown motor

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    Re: Ride Height
    « Reply #1 on: March 25, 2016 - 09:54:26 PM »
    Just put Bilstiens on mine. Didn't change the height at all. Are you sure you got the right shocks for the car?
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    Offline Chryco Psycho

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    Re: Ride Height
    « Reply #2 on: March 25, 2016 - 09:59:52 PM »
    A high pressure gas shock can raise the car little , maybe the ones you removed were high pressure ?
     Otherwise i agree it should not make any difference .
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    Re: Ride Height
    « Reply #3 on: March 25, 2016 - 10:13:33 PM »
     :iagree:
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    Re: Ride Height
    « Reply #4 on: March 25, 2016 - 11:21:04 PM »
    Quote from: BIGSHCLUNK on March 25, 2016 - 10:13:33 PM
    :iagree:

    I agree with this agree...
    I put pressurized ones on mine years ago and then had to lower it back down.

    Luckily it takes only a few cranks...
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    Offline cudabob496

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    Re: Ride Height
    « Reply #5 on: March 26, 2016 - 02:18:37 AM »
    yep, I think it was the cheapy KYB gas shocks I had on there. Anyway
    looks better lower.
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    Re: Ride Height
    « Reply #6 on: March 26, 2016 - 02:45:22 PM »
    I'm not an expert, but lowering it 1" wouldn't you need a front end alignment?
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    Re: Ride Height
    « Reply #7 on: March 26, 2016 - 11:15:42 PM »
    Quote from: Fern on March 26, 2016 - 02:45:22 PM
    I'm not an expert, but lowering it 1" wouldn't you need a front end alignment?

    dont think so in this case.  If you adjust the torsion bars, you might.  I did my own alignment in the garage
    last month, after I replaced ball joints. Taped a flaslight to a pole, then pressed pole against front tire, until
    light was pointing straight ahead, when making adjustments to tie rods.  I then went out and drove it, seeing no pull,
    then came back and checked tire temps with a temp gun, across the tire.  Before I made adjustments, tire temps
    were about 10 degrees higher on one side of tread compared to other, which meant out of alignment.
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    1999 Trans Am, LS1, heads, cam, headers, stall, etc! Love to surprise the rice rockets with this one. They seem so confident, then it's "what the heck just happened?"

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    Re: Ride Height
    « Reply #8 on: March 26, 2016 - 11:58:25 PM »
    KYB are a stiff shock & likely run high pressure
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    Re: Ride Height
    « Reply #9 on: March 27, 2016 - 03:06:02 AM »
    Quote from: Fern on March 26, 2016 - 02:45:22 PM
    I'm not an expert, but lowering it 1" wouldn't you need a front end alignment?

    Yes, as long as it was aligned while it was sitting an inch higher.

    The suspension doesn't care if you adjusted the torsion bars or not. If the car is lowered an inch, the alignment changed. Normally that's achieved with the torsion bar adjusters, but, think about how that works for a second. The torsion bar adjusters change the angle of the LCA's with respect to the torsion bar socket indexing. That's it. If the car is an inch lower at rest, the angle of the LCA's has changed, and the car needs a new alignment.
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