Have the teins installed and dropped the car to its lowest settings,




Its sitting at about 605mm to the top of the guards, the rear sits great, no scraping etc but the front may need raising, I just mangled the right guard/lip coming up the drive.

I was thinking about raising it to about 620mm (15mm) at the guards, which would give the front that extra movement as it's sometimes bump stopping over some of the more aggressive lumps in our quality north roads.

So I'm just wondering, what are you guys running with your coil overs? Also keen to know which damper settings are you guys using and what would be the best way to work out the damper, push test? Would too hard a damper be like bump stopping? etc..

Cheers in advance,

I was running 615 F and 620 R with the Tom's Advox coilovers I had.

Just a word of advice (and I'm no pro) but try and take pics with the sun behind you, no matter what you can never get good pics taking them directly into the sun!

The stance looks good! :)

Mines sitting at 615mm front and back. Needs to raised up a bit though, scrapes on almost every speed bump and the rear under chasis brace got caught on a steel one. Bad damage had to gas cut the brace off and cut a hole in the floor to pannelbeat the chasis rail back down. :(

I bottomed out on the way up my mums driveway and did a bit of damage to one of the side under body braces that run front to back near the jack point lip/sideskirt. It bent it a little, not sure if its going to pass a warrant but Imperial Panel beaters said they fix them all the time so no worries getting it repaired.

I'm going to try 620mm front and rear, I really like the stance as it is but I'm not too keen on bottoming out and mangling my fenders every time I go up my driveway :( And with 19's that bump stopping will probably end up putting my rims out of round!

Too low.... errr i can give u an example with a nice wald front lip :P

Too low is when you can't "just drive" your car anymore.... ;)

if its not tucking tyres, its not low enough :) hehe

This was to low

The front looks like it'd do a bit of scraping at full lock, looks sick though

just make sure that the lowest structural point is more than 100mm off the ground, otherwise it's a green or pink sticker depending on how annoying the cop feels like being.

From riding around in a few lowered cars, any lower than about 115mm is a PITA with speed bumps, ramps, driveways etc.

And as for "tucking tires"... maybe in a honda on cut springs, not an altezza... eww.

well id rather see it low than high

im going to be putting some lowering springs in my altezza,
and just wondering wat everyones advice is on super lows and lows for our cars???
and also which brand is best ???
King or cobra???
thanks

also, is it true we have rear camber adjust standard on the IS200?

if so, is it enough to adjust it to a safe camber setting with lowered springs in the rear?

Yeah, but there's not much to play with in the adjustment...

kings and cobras are pretty much the same
i wouldnt expect much from them but they will lower ur car a little bit

superlows or lows for me doesnt lower the car enough

hmmm, would you suggest camber bolts?

When you lower a car, all the arms and all change their alignment, and you will get negative camber automaticly, but the factory alignment bolts can only adjust roughly up to one degree max, if you have stock alighnment and lower to where the wheel is on the guard at the rear, thats going to be roughly -3 camber already

COOL THANKS, DUNNO WHAT IM GETTING JUST TOLD THEM TO GET ME SUPER LOWS, AS LONG AS I CAN DRIVE ROUND LEGALLY :) HOPEFULLY IT WONT BE THAT LOW :)

This is one of the lowest IS200 in Sydney

You can keep it Low just dont go to places where there are speedhumps LoL

Exactly, so we just have to be prepared to change tyres every 20,000km...

Godzilr- when u say "safe camber" do you just mean no rubbing? I just rolled my guards and that solved everything.

safe camber so it doesn't scrub the inside of the tyres :D

now that's hawt.
but there is a forum member in sydney that has airbags.. which technically makes his car the lowest possible is200 since it can touch the ground :P

Well, any negative camber will load the inner treads and wear them first, so you 'spread' the wear by adding toe-in.

This wears the outside and across the tread instead of just the inner edge, and obviously the more negative camber you have the more toe-in you need to balance it.

As the car squats it adds more neg camber to the rear and that adds toe-out at the same time, and it is this that the toe-in counteracts. So you need more toe-in for the times you are accelerating or carying a load.

This is the same at the front, except you get more neg camber and more toe-out when you brake and the nose drops. So the times when the tyres are under maximum loading (braking & accelerating) are the times when the wheels assume neg camber and toe-out. Goodbye inner edges!

Overall, more neg camber means shorter tyre life. (and better cornering power!)

i have g4 adjustable coilovers on my is200 and i have 19's on it and im tucking the rears so its just below the top of the rim not tyre but the rim and tucking the fronts just to the top of the rim and its very very low.....its a nightmare driving lol but looks hot as.....at its lowest point underneath its 4cm's (40mm) off the ground :D :D :D ill post up pics soon

panda

I seen this the other day while I was drivng my truck LoL

fair dropped ay :P

Got one where we were slapping on my coilovers, a whole 5 min b4 we realized the car was going to be stuck in my driveway:

Whats the measurement from the front of your front bumper to the ground, and from side skirts to the ground Nick?

My C West front bar is 100mm off the tarmac and skirts are 110mm F & 100mm R (lower ride height in the rear)

all round it's pretty even (and nearly legal), 8-10cm all round, the exhaust is around 6cm and loves the road lol.

Thats nice LEX-71C, wat did you do to the grille it looks like that LEXXTC grille

thanks =] got them sprayed silver by bassa at 2 sus. LEXXTC has the same style but sprayed baby blue

You've changed your wheel/tyres and plates. So what is next?

me ? lol.. i just got a big stereo upgrade.. next will probably be a paint job.. black pearl or sumthing along those lines ( btw i didnt mean to hijack this thread )

Definately looks loooowwww! :D

Love the dark tint also!

What are you dropped on?

yer u would have seen that outside queen street that my mates car, i was actually going to buy this one

very nice is200 but yery very low

Yeah that thing is bloody low, hows the ride in it.
I just work round the corner ffrom there in Fitzpatrick st

its bouncy but thats the way he likes cars lol
he used to own this

He? A guy owned this?

ummm yes i expected this sort of reaction on, no offence but there isnt many " sex-spec" style cars here

"here" being Aus?

LOL Just look in a Hot 4s mag, all have chromes, no smaller then 20"!

My mates one had an S14 with 22s and 4WD stance...

Guess Aus attracts more "Sex-Spec" due to the harsher laws and chances of defects etc.

And "Lexus" is more of a "Cruiser" when compared to its JDM counterpart which is more commonly protrayed as a JDM machine