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Originally Posted by 525iT_Feen
It's possible to lower a high vehicle and IMPROVE ride comfort and suspension compliance, just install softer springs and shocks with milder valving. This fact "flies in the face" of the "Fast N Furious" boy races who do almost ALL vehicle lowering and think STIFFER = BETTER!!!!!!!
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While this is true, you will at the same time be losing suspension travel. There's no such thing as win-win scenarios when it comes to modifying your suspension. The reason that most folks go to stiffer springs when they lower a car, is to compensate for reduced suspension travel. So if that six inch pothole just about bottoms the car with a stock suspension at a given speed, ideally, with the lowered car with increased spring rates, you still use up all your suspension travel on that same pothole at the same speed, (without hitting the bump stops). Needless to say, you will feel the hit much more in the lowered car, and have a somewhat increased chance of bending a rim. If you lowered the car, and left the spring rates the same, (or made them softer as you suggest), that same pothole that almost bottomed a stock suspension would cause you to hit the bump stops, and possibly do damage to the car.
A lot depends on where you drive, and how you drive. The faster you go on bumpy roads, the more suspension travel you want.