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Anonymous
17-01-02, 06:50 PM
I LOWERED MY NOVA 40mm WITH PI SPRINGS ABOUT 3 MONTHS AGO THE FRONT SITS SWEET BUT THE REAR IS STILL A BIT HIGH ANYONE GOT ANY IDEA WHY ?:-/

Anonymous
17-01-02, 07:32 PM
Is it because you have tractor wheels on the back? If you did, that would make it sit a little bit high.

Anonymous
17-01-02, 08:49 PM
I just had mine lowered today (Spax -40mm)and it does the same, though ive only done 5 mils so i suppose i need to give them time to settle.

Anonymous
17-01-02, 10:57 PM
I've recently fitted -60mm springs on my GTE, and it's the same thing....the front is VERY low, but the rear is not as low as my Antibes which uses -40 Puma springs.

I'm going to try fitting my Puma rear springs on the GTE and see what happens.
They're definitely lower than the Pi ones, but the front ones aren't.

Anonymous
17-01-02, 11:39 PM
I fitted -40mm springs to mine, front and rear. The front has lowered more than the back and it has levelled the car out nicely rather than the nose being higher than the rear.

Anonymous
18-01-02, 12:08 AM
I have the same, im gonna try -60 at the back to go with 40 at the front

Anonymous
18-01-02, 12:15 AM
mine was sweet until i put on some gmax shocks, pushed the back end right up :(

Anonymous
18-01-02, 01:00 AM
stick a couple of 25kg cement bags in the boot soon lowers it cus theres no weight in the back


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Anonymous
18-01-02, 01:52 AM
try droppin it 90mml @ the back that'tle do the trick...........well it worked for me!!

60mml springs, cut 30mml!!!!
ok ok so a little bit dodgy??
fucking low though and they have uprated coil overs! so they r safe!

i heard that buying GTE axles tubs can be lowrred more than standard sr ones is thuis tue, if so then buy GTE rear axles stubs"""

thatll drop ya backside!

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Anonymous
18-01-02, 12:12 PM
weld the mounting plates for the stubs 10mm higher up like you do for the rear disc conversion to get it 10mm lower

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Anonymous
20-01-02, 12:42 PM
why were you lowering it 40mm in the first place? 60mm at least boys, sort it out!

GTE: The better of the nova's!

Anonymous
20-01-02, 01:22 PM
i was gonna lower it 60mm but thought it would be to low now i wish i had.x-(

Anonymous
20-01-02, 05:22 PM
billy.....'cos lowering 40 gives better handling than 60

I thought fuck it this time though, and I've lowered the GTE 60 :D

Annoying thing is though, my Antibes is lower at the back than my GTE is...oops....already said that in my post above!