Terrible Ride

PCA4208 · Dec 20, 2012

Does anyone else have a terrible ride like I do? When people say that they can feel the road more with a lowering kit I feel as if I'm in a go kart with no suspension sometimes. I just hae a 2-4" lowering kit and hotchkis sway bars, don't know the what shocks though. Could it be that i need new shocks?

Trupiano · Dec 20, 2012

I have GF 2/3 drop and I'm sick of the ride. Don't like it anymore because of the stiffness.

El phono

trev · Dec 20, 2012

I've fixed mine to be about a 4/7 drop, my ride isn't to bad as long as I stay away from the big dips in the road.. Cruising around its not much of a change from stock.

HemiLonestar · Dec 20, 2012

PCA4208 said:
Does anyone else have a terrible ride like I do? When people say that they can feel the road more with a lowering kit I feel as if I'm in a go kart with no suspension sometimes. I just hae a 2-4" lowering kit and hotchkis sway bars, don't know the what shocks though. Could it be that i need new shocks?

I have stiff coils up front but stock leafs with lowering shackles in the back. I wouldn't say its terrible, but it rides like pretty much every leaf spring car I have ever had (which is almost all of them).

Trupiano said:
I have GF 2/3 drop and I'm sick of the ride. Don't like it anymore because of the stiffness.

El phono

At least you coils at all corners.

PCA4208 · Dec 20, 2012

I'm pretty sure that my rear leafs are not stock because they are pretty flat like low profile. But I swear I find every terrible road in this city. ( In which almost every road in New Mexico is complete crap and there is less potholes on dirt road then on the street)

BKNBK · Dec 21, 2012

Well, I think it's to be expected that your ride comfort will suffer. Decreasing your suspension travel will affect your ride. Now the extent of the effect can vary.

I started with a 2/4.5 McGaughy's kit. At first the rear would bottom out on bigger dips, RR tracks. The front rubbed slightly. I ended up adding front drop springs (McGaughy's), used stock shackles to make it 3/6. I C-notched the rear (3"), cut away some of the inner fender well lip, rolled fenders. Now my ride is ok. Not great, not stock, but acceptable and worth the look.

I think a big factor here is the environment you drive in, quality of the roads. You wouldn't likely want a dropped ride if your roads are trash. At least unless you like driving 5 mph everywhere, lol.

HemiBabe · Dec 21, 2012

Yeah mine rides like a dump truck, but on smooth roads its fine.

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SILVER_BULLET · Dec 21, 2012

BKNBK said:
Well, I think it's to be expected that your ride comfort will suffer. Decreasing your suspension travel will affect your ride. Now the extent of the effect can vary.

I started with a 2/4.5 McGaughy's kit. At first the rear would bottom out on bigger dips, RR tracks. The front rubbed slightly. I ended up adding front drop springs (McGaughy's), used stock shackles to make it 3/6. I C-notched the rear (3"), cut away some of the inner fender well lip, rolled fenders. Now my ride is ok. Not great, not stock, but acceptable and worth the look.

I think a big factor here is the environment you drive in, quality of the roads. You wouldn't likely want a dropped ride if your roads are trash. At least unless you like driving 5 mph everywhere, lol.

that last part is exactly how it is around here there is plenty of trucks around here with 6/9 and more drops and some of the roads are horrible so 5mph is normal here haha

KGBIGCOUNTRY · Dec 21, 2012

Trup how did your 05 ride after all of the work you did on it?

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