Lowering issues...

[bryan_tberry]

Im about to order some DropZone coilovers and I plan on somewhere around a 1 3/4" drop all the way around. But as I started looking underneath my wheel wells, I noticed something floating above my front tires. I dont know what it is, im thinking its a control arm or something but ill show you what im talking about with a picture.

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Can you tell me how that bolt wont drop down with the car and tear into my tire? I think ive seen a lowered eclipse under the wheel wells and that was still a ways from even touching the tire. Does the car drop around that or something? Thanks alot guys, your help is much appreciated.

 

[my95tsi]

I take it that your a newbe but thats ok. Don't worry about it, it won't touch at all. As the car is dropped down that will move up and keep the same distance away from the tire. My car is slammed looking in the front (1.7 drop) and the front tires almost come about 1/2 inch away from the fender well and doesn't even come close to touching the control arm. If you think about it that is atteched to the wheel hub assembly and it moves up with the wheel. There is no way it could possibly touch. You could drop you car 3 inches and it still won't touch but i woudn't recommend dropping your car that much anyways. So don't get sportlines. Anyways i hope this helps.

 

[bryan_tberry]

nah im not a newbie, but for suspension tuning i am. The more I look at it now, the more it makes sense. Thanks bro.

 

[TSiAWD666]

If you take the wheel off you'd understand what that is. The bolt you see is actually the ball joint from the upper a-arm, and it's connecting the a-arm to the knuckle. The knuckle connects pieces of suspension together, houses the wheel hub, and where you mount your brakes. Since the wheel/tire connect directly to it, that point will never move relative to the tire (with the exception of the metal flexing a teensy bit).