Anything above a 225/45 on your 16x8 will not allow "lows" or "stance" lol.
FENDER EATER.
Anyway, shorten 2" and purchase a 1" longer coil when ordering from GC so your adjustments won't be useless.
I did 2.5" on my last setup and the car was near useless until I got an inch longer springs. Highest setting and my iS lip was a bottle cap off the floor; not fun when you HAVE suspension travel.
It didn't help that the shorter springs were only 450lbs which caused more compression.
That car was totaled due to an asshat who thought Red means go.
For this car, I did 3" with a 1" longer front coil from GC.
My highest adjustment on the collar gives me about a fat thumb's worth of tire/fender gap with 225/45's on a 9" or 205/45's on an 8" (last setup).
You can use imagination to wonder how low the car would go, though I don't recommend it. You get over having to stress out driving everywhere reading road-braille and the fact that your car will handle pretty poopoo if you car much about that.
The car is lowered to hide all front fender gap, and let me tell you SUSPENSION TRAVEL IS GREEEEEEAT BEING THIS LOW.
I also have IE Race camber plates that are a shorter stack height than regular top hats of course.
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Who runs shortened bilsteins with their coilovers?
I will be getting a set of blown HD bilstein shocks/struts soon, and plan to get them revalved/rebuilt and shortened.
I called bilstein today, and they said they are in fact able to shorten the struts, but they could not answer how much I should shorten them, and that is when I come to you guys.
I plan to shorten my strut tubes as well, and go with a set of the GC coils. I would like to be able to get my car low and to have the "stance" look but also be able to raise it up a little. I want to be practical. I initially had the plan to run 225/45, 225/50, or 225/55 on some 16x8 wheels, but I am undecided currently.
How much do you guys recommend I get them shortened by?
If anyone here is running regular bilstein sports/HD's shortened with coils please post up pictures, and how much they were shortened.
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