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Old 01-14-2003, 08:48 PM
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Can someone lower cars?

someone do some for me?
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Old 01-18-2003, 03:18 PM
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It's not that hard to do really. Only takes like 10 minutes to assemble and a bit more for the glue to dry. All you have to do is get a precision screwdriver and hammer the nail out that keeps the wheel in the knuckle in your extra front wheels. From there take your back axle that you will mod and take the rims off. Easiest way to do this is to get a sturdy electric fan. Put the rim attached to the gear in between the bars of the fan. Make sure only the wheel is caught in the bars and pull. Comes out very easily. The other rim is harder to pull of. What I do is take some cutters and cut off the spacer of the rim. It's not a bad thing to cut it off because you would have to cut it off anyways if you wanted to raise your car. Once you cut the spacer off, it's a lot easier to take off. Get the smaller rims that you hammered out and glue them on to the axles. Use another normal back axle to measure correctly. Since the small wheels don't have a spacer, get a small but and slide it on. Put the other rim on. Make sure the nut doesn't have glue on it. Now you have a lowered car. If you want it even lower, take out the suspension bar in front.
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Old 01-18-2003, 03:27 PM
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I had a much easier time just cutting a new access hole in the rear of the bit body (you know the one the tab fits in). Just above the exsisting hole cut a new one with a red hot razor blade or exacto knife. Be real careful though, the blade will cut through like butter. Might want to draw on a new space with a pen.
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Old 01-22-2003, 06:57 AM
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I had good luck lowering mine by just filing on the body. I used a flat file to expand the hole in the rear (like everybody else), but insted of making a new tab for the front, I just used the same file to remove some material behind the grille area in the front. It dropped the front, but I had to file a little bit from the leading edge of the front tab so the body won't be pulled forward. I may have to do something else though since it doesn't sit quite right since I did the dual cell mod with the second cell in the rear window. I've got the Lancer body.
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Old 01-22-2003, 08:10 AM
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Zephyranthes when you swapped out the front wheels did you have a problem with the larger front wheels not rolling stright. i tried with two seperate sets. i have the spacer and the pin is pretty snug, but when i put it all back together the car pulls to the side, ill steer to the opposite and then that wheel pulls. any ideas? i grinded the body a bit to the wheels have all the clearance they'll need, but the thing wont go stright.
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Old 01-22-2003, 06:36 PM
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The pin might be too snug. For my back axle, I had to make the wheels further apart than a stock gear for the nut was a bit too big. Oh yea, just to warn you, this mod makes your car go slower because the small wheels in the back have a smaller circumerference.
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Old 01-25-2003, 09:32 AM
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Here's a pic of mine. The back wheels are different because the first time I tried to lower it, I messed up the wheels so I used ones from an OEM.
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Old 01-27-2003, 01:47 PM
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that rx7 looks like the batmobile, dont let batman find out your biting his style...
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Old 01-28-2003, 11:45 AM
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Pics finally

Here's a pic of my lowered Lancer with a stock Skyline for comparison. I did the body filing like I mentioned but after the dual cell mod it didn't sit low in the front any more so I removed the spring.

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