Practically every 997 posted on here is lowered. Who's not, post a photo and why you chose not to be lowered....

 

Not Lowered.
Part of the reason I drive a 911 is it's more practical as a daily. I also live in the city. If I wanted to scrape the ground, I'd be in a corvette.

 

Me. This car is a daily driver with a few track days. I want to be able to drive down normal streets and into my driveway without damaging the car.

 

I've lowered and modded all my sports cars. Staring at the wheel gap of my newly purchased 997.2 is making me itchy. I'm trying to keep stock height but the temptation is strong!

 

Not lowered. The front lip scraped the first time I came up my driveway. I discovered I can back-in with total clearance. There are too many other great mods to keep me busy.

 

Fight the dark side. Riding high & loving it.
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I'm not lowered. My 997 is my daily driver and as such needs to remain practical for my daily commute. I have a Miata that is lowered ~1" from stock and set up for autocross. Over the years I've gotten pretty good and navigating driveways and speed bumps in lowered cars, but where I live now is just a different level of treacherous thanks to the way the streets are graded for drainage in most neighborhoods. When I occasionally have to drive the Miata on my daily commute, I scrape 5 or 6 times on the way to the office and another 5-6 times on the way home. That's fine with a $3K beater Miata, but I can't imagine doing it to my Porsche. Makes me cringe.

 

not lowered - wont be lowering this car ever either. maybe the next one !

 

Not lowered - roads here aren't flat.
The aerokit lip has already struck asphalt just driving across a 4 way intersection with a signal light. There are other locations I frequent where I've learned how to avoid scraping by entering/exiting the intersection/driving/parking lot by wide sweeping turns.

 

Anyone on here with spacers and not lowered?

 

me! running 305s in the back also on a NB

15mm in the front on oem 8 inch wheels, the rears are the oem WB wheels, basically the exact same as a 16mm rear spacer.

 

I like the look. Pushing the wheels out looks like it disguises the wheel gap. Or is the photo's lighting causing that?

 

I'm going to say both.

if in doubt, spacers first (very cheap to do and easily reversible), not to mention u can do it yourself easily..... then decide.

of course lowered would look better, not going to deny that.

 

No drop here. It scrapes enough as it is as it is.

 

I think Porsche did a bang up job with the factory settings, heights etc.