Supension Bottom Out

[96svtdriver]

Since I've had to the Hampton area in VA I've noticed a huge difference in how my car rides since I've done the suspension mods in my signature below. My issue is the fact that I bottom out on these roads at even low speeds and the overall quality oft he roads around here are complete garbage, especially compared to Florida's. So I was wondering, short of going back to stock ride and height, what can I do to help prevent this bottom out up front?:nonono:

 

[Tabres]

Drive more carefully.

 

[PSUCOBRA96]

stiffer shocks

 

[Ciotti]

Poly spring isolators will help bring the nose up a bit and then if you installed the x2's without the spacers you can put those spacers in to bring it up a bit more. I went through the same thing with the x2 spacers, with them out I scraped and bottomed once per week but now with them in it brought the nose up just enough that I'm only barely scraping once every few months if that.

 

[96svtdriver]

Drive more carefully.

You can't drive anywhere carefully here. It simply doesn't happen short of not driving at all.

Yeah I didn't have the spacers on mine when I had the parts installed. I'm not entirely sure what happened to the spacers. I lose stuff everytime I have to move around.

As far as shocks/struts go, I thought the gas non-adjusts I have were enough, but I really don't want to swap those out for stiffer and ride quality suffer even more.

The spring isos sound like a good addition. What's the cost of those look like and what are the better brands?

 

[Ciotti]

Urethane Spring Isolators : Maximum Motorsports, the Latemodel Mustang Performance Suspension Leader!


And better shocks/struts won't make your ride quality worse, they'll actually improve it because the Tokikos are underdampened much like stock. If you've ever driven a German car you've felt what a properly dampened suspension setup is like, and you get that same properly dampened feel with Koni's or Bilsteins in these cars.

 

[luke87gt]

FMS C-springs and OEM Bullitt/Mach1 Tokicos are not a good combo.

Those springs offer a low ride height, relatively low spring rate, and the 94-04 OEM dampers don't have the bump travel you want for a lowered car.

You can do any one or combination of the following:

1.) Get a stiffer spring
2.) Raise the car
3.) Get a stiffer strut/shock combo with more bump travel