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Old 07-12-2008, 10:44 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Question help with lowering springs?

Hi i'm new to the community and i wanted to get a little input


I've got a 93" camry i recently replaced the stock tires with 17" rims and tires low profiles ... and now the car looks tottaly out of wack.... and i'm new to working on cars and i don't really know how much of a lower i have to go with? do i just need the springs or is thier other things i'l have to do?

i was looking at a 1.8 lowering springs. i was going to have a local place do it but they wanted to charge me 700$ to do a 1" drop any input would be great


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there's lowering springs you can get for the car but i dunno if that will give you the 1.8' drop ... or you can get coilovers then you can drop it till it scrapes the floor
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Thanks for the input. just really started working on this car just hoping i can get it to look right heh
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Old 07-14-2008, 03:25 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Well it looks like the tires you put on there are wayyyyy too small. Let me guess... 205/40-17 tire size? That is the size for Civics and Integras. Camrys have much larger tires and need something more along the lines of 205/50-17 or maybe 215/45-17.

You're still going to have a huge gap even with 1.8" lowering springs because those tires are so painfully small. Your speedometer is also going to be way off with that tire size.
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