cobalt

I apologize in advance but there seems to be this trend to drop these cars below RS ride height and for the life of me I can't fathom why other than looks. I see this a lot around me with older BMW 3 series and they usually run about 15 degrees negative camber bouncing allover the road or sitting on the shoulder with a damaged rim.

I had my turbo at RS height and it bottomed out until I put in the H&R supercup suspension and that was considerably higher than some of these cars. Couldn't stand the ride for the street way to stiff and even on the track I am not sure how you guys handle the bump steer issues. I am building a track car that will be low but not that low since there is no advantage if anything a disadvantage to handling.

Sorry for the negative comment but maybe you could clarify this for me.

jevvy964

I'm with you, I suspect a pregnant cow would drive better than a 964 with that sorta setup

Jjm4life

Because stance.

Im at rs height. Handles great, looks pretty good. If I could go lower a bit in the front i would But i cant without issues, so i wont.
I've been told i can safely go lower with 993 gt evo uprights. I plan on doing that when i upgrade my brakes.

bobaines

There is fashion and there is style. The great thing about fashion you don't usually have to wait too long for the next one.

jimonycricket

deutschland-dobson

Igaffz

That pics class Chris!

Ian

deutschland-dobson

You're only saying that because that's you in the door reflection

KVN

From after-work drive yesterday

drknauf

last night at the airstrip :





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BHCfarkas

DrKnauf, I'm trying to understand why you take what would probably be a great picture and over edit them?

lateforlunch

^ what he said. all the color change photoshops of the same cars over and over again drives me nuts too. or is it a warhol thing?

cobalt

Nice package car. Is it yours. Are you aware of flachbau.com that documents these rare beasts. If not Mark would love to have your information for his site.

lateforlunch

Nah it's not mine, I was lucky enough to see it and snap that pic at the Dana Point 356 concours back in 2012 though.

bdc1

the great thing about cars, even porsches, is that you can build your own

Low cars are not a new fad, the popularity of more extreme lowering might've increased within this community but generally speaking its nothing new and probably isn't going anywhere either.

You can drive a 964 without driving it on the track, and I would guess most of these low cars you see are certainly driven. From my experience, you can drop these cars very low without giving away its driveability on the road. Of course its more stiff, otherwise you'd bang it on the ground.

For the record I drive my 964 at this height and it performs nicely. I drive it fast, I drive it slow, I drive by myself, with my wife or my daughter. if I were to take it on the track (I will soon, I only recently got it back in shape), I would raise it a bit higher to make it perform better, simple as that. but for road use, this works just fine.

Of course we all have our preferences and thats cool.

to answer cobalt's original question, yes, its for looks.