lowered my car now its all push!!

[Below Ambient]

grr i miss the wonderful 4 wheel drifts i could put my car in before i lowered it... any ideas?

 

[Defiant]

Off to the alignment shop for you. Tell them what you want, a good wrench should be able to just about put you there.

 

[2-0turbo]

Depending on how much you lowered it, this is a predictable result. If you are bottoming out the front, you are going to understeer like crazy. When you bottom out the front, your front spring rates goes to infinity and this will cause you understeer everytime.

 

[Tallen]

depending on the drop, you will at least need a rear DIY camber kit (see the vfaq). if your over 1.5" chances are you'll need a front camber kit. then...take it to get aligned...let the guy know that theres a way to adjust front camber and they will do the rest (we installed a front camber kit in my buddys car, and jsut told the pep boys alignment guy how to use it. car rides on rails)

 

[2-0turbo]

You all seem to be stuck on camber. He hasn't said how much he lowered, but I don't think camber is the problem. He probably has way too much negative camber, but that by itself probably isn't going to change his car from "wonderful 4-wheel drifts" to "pushes like crazy". I am willing to bet money he has no front suspension travel left.

 

[cait sith]

Considering by his profile he has no shocks with his way cool lowering kit, I'd say he's riding on bumpstops, and his stock struts/shocks are more than likely dead.

What I want to know is how one does "wonderful four wheel drifts" with a box stock 1G N/T. I had one of those for a while, and it was the piggiest car on wheels, unless "four wheel drifts" means breaking the traction point on the tires, and the car starts sliding out.

 

[Below Ambient]

it was lowered 2 in... hardly enough to even come close to the bump stops.... ill bet the camber kit would help big time... the alignment guy said my car was well within spec except for toe in which was at 2in and adjusted back to 0in....

 

[Malhavok]

Originally posted by cait sith
What I want to know is how one does "wonderful four wheel drifts" with a box stock 1G N/T. I had one of those for a while, and it was the piggiest car on wheels, unless "four wheel drifts" means breaking the traction point on the tires, and the car starts sliding out.

Well, according to 95% of the people at my school I can drift in a '87 Chevy Corsica, and there is no way ANYTHING can handle worse than that! You just have to remember the general public thinks they're drifting every time they're front tires start to squeel. But, yah. I'm curious how your getting all four wheels to slip, let alone actually drifting. I have trouble getting the rearend around

 

[Below Ambient]

its pretty easy... or at least it used to be.... just go into a corner with the brakes on and the rear end will swing around.... give it a bit of counter steer and throttle and itll comes right out....


now it just pushes no matter what.... makes it hard to find the limits of the car...