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Originally Posted by sperry
Yeah, that's what I was getting at Austin, I just don't know the nitty gritty. 
As far as lowering WRXs... I hear the max you should lower it it to the point where the lower control arms are parallel to the ground when sitting static. Any more than that, and you have to start running to high of a spring rate, like Austin said. |
There's an important caveat to that too; when trying to figure out if the LCA's are parallel to the ground, the geometry is determined by drawing a line through the middle of the lower ball joint, and connecting it perpendicular to the centerline of the LCA pivots... a lot of the time control arms are stamped or cast and the shape can be misleading from just looking at it.. it might *look* parallel at a glance underneath the car but the inboard pivots could actually be below the ball joint centerline, which would generally be bad.