I have a bugeye and I have coilovers and I was wondering how low can I can before it actually hurts the performance of the car. I do have work emotion 17 in wheels with 225/45 if that matters. Thanks.

 

slam it!

 

haha,its at one finger now.

 

this was just for show... i know hella rice

 

looks koo, what size wheels?

 

those were 17x7.5

 

hmm read somewhere it should be 14 in and 13.5 in from the fender to center of wheel....kinda hard when the center isnt flush.

 

best way is to get a professional alignment
that way the vehicle can be lowered and still maintain the proper toe/camber/caster/thrust angle

 

^^^ What he said. Fine tune the whole set-up as far as toe/camber/caster/thrust angle as well as the spring stiffness, overall travel and the dampening. Once it is all set and you have it all dialed in then start to lower the car (and center of gravity) to either your personal preference (ie low but still high enough to get over speed bumps and such) or keep going lower until stuff starts to rub. when rubbing occurs then you have hit the bottom and you should go back up a little bit to eliminate the rubbing.

Sacrificing performance to go lower, would be extreme camber just to get the tires to tuck into the fenders. Too much camber can be good and bad. It is great for going in a straight line because you will have such a small contact patch (corner of the tire) that there will be very little friction, but you also won't have any grip to make a turn which is seen as a loss of performance.