Lowering Car without ruining daily feel/comfort

[Amirh87]

I love the way this car drives and feels. However, I'd really like it if it was a few miles lower for aesthetic and performance.

I made a huge mistake on my previous car by putting springs on. It felt great at speed or canyon runs but as a daily it was just so crashy. With that said, my previous car, didn't have adaptive suspension

Now with me as an owner of a brand new 8Y. What options are available that is compatible with adaptive suspension but doesn't completely ruin the daily "feel" of this vehicle.

I'm also interested in track & autocross days.


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[Daggerit]

I love the way this car drives and feels. However, I'd really like it if it was a few miles lower for aesthetic and performance.

I made a huge mistake on my previous car by putting springs on. It felt great at speed or canyon runs but as a daily it was just so crashy. With that said, my previous car, didn't have adaptive suspension

Now with me as an owner of a brand new 8Y. What options are available that is compatible with adaptive suspension but doesn't completely ruin the daily "feel" of this vehicle.

I'm also interested in track & autocross days.


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I don’t know how they are on the 8Y but my general go to springs are Eibach and they’ve always been comfy as a daily but given a slightly improved cornering ability. Either the Pro Kit or Sportline versions have been on my past cars.

Adaptive dampers will also help that a lot as you’ve said.


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[DPM]

As above Eibach springs are probably going to be the way to go. Did you have a drop in mind?

Damian @ DPM Performance

 

[HulkRS3]

A few of us are running the Eibach's and I love them. I don't have the adaptive dampers either and it's more than easy to cope with even on our Scottish roads.

 

[eleven_]

Installed the Eibach Sportline springs here a few weeks ago. They've improved the handling and looks. Ride quality is pretty much what it was, maybe a tad firmer. No coding was done for the adaptive dampers, so not sure what difference that would make.

 

[8YARWY]

Lol love how a ‘specialist’ won’t admit when a car they worked on has an issue.

Lol move along nothing to see here……

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[eleven_]

The guys that have lowered their cars, does anyone know how much adjustability there is for front/rear camber with the OEM bolts?

Also, there may be options for the stone guard to be moved/replaced from under the rear guard to the side of the guard with a different type. Either one of these options may likely resolve the rubbing issue with bridgestones or wider rear tyres.

 

[Daggerit]

Lol love how a ‘specialist’ won’t admit when a car they worked on has an issue.

Lol move along nothing to see here……

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I haven’t driven the car that hard yet as I’m still breaking it in, but have 15mm spacers on the rear with the Bridgestones and haven’t had any rubbing issues.

Not lowered, but had the car full of wife, two kids and a boot full of stuff on back roads and still no issues. Maybe they’ll appear in the future but alright so far.


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[8YARWY]

The guys that have lowered their cars, does anyone know how much adjustability there is for front/rear camber with the OEM bolts?

Also, there may be options for the stone guard to be moved/replaced from under the rear guard to the side of the guard with a different type. Either one of these options may likely resolve the rubbing issue with bridgestones or wider rear tyres.

Once you push a tyre out further than the arch lip and lower it you’ll have issues, always amazes me that owners think that the gap never gets smaller as the wheel moves up / down whilst in motion.

R44 say they aren’t aware of owners with issues when one of their customers posted in a YouTube video how he’d ‘broke’ his car after having the work done by…….R44 and he’s only realised there’s a problem after driving it.
****** hell you only have to look at the pictures after they did the work to know that’ll rub under any sort of hard cornering etc.

Not great from a ‘professional’ company.

If you do that to a customers car and can’t see there will be ‘issues’ you need to start doing something else in life…..



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[Daggerit]

Once you push a tyre out further than the arch lip and lower it you’ll have issues, always amazes me that owners think that the gap never gets smaller as the wheel moves up / down whilst in motion.

R44 say they aren’t aware of owners with issues when one of their customers posted in a YouTube video how he’d ‘broke’ his car after having the work done by…….R44 and he’s only realised there’s a problem after driving it.
****** hell you only have to look at the pictures after they did the work to know that’ll rub under any sort of hard cornering etc.


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I'm prepared to remove them if I need to, but I'll wait until the first rub. I don't think that the front of the tyre to inside of arch gap should get smaller on the top when cornering though, otherwise you're having positive camber added which isn't good for handling. If you just mean that the suspension compresses and the tyre gets closer to the arch as a result then I'm in total agreement.

 

[eleven_]

Again, a simple alignment may resolve the issue. on the bridgestones or moving the stone chip protector. We're only talking a couple mm's.

Also, as the suspension compresses, the wheels will tuck in a bit more as the neg camber increases, well on a McPherson strut...not sure how the rear of the RS3 goes with compression.

I'm running the Pirelli's and have no rubbing lowered under any circumstances so haven't needed to play around with this issue.