Howdy folks, I'm getting fedup scraping over speed bumps despite going diagonal and avoiding braking into them to prevent front end dipping.

 

My z32 has a strosek replica front bumper on it which is the culprit. Its not lowered but there is very little clearance under that bumper. Suspension doesn't seem to be sagging too bad, do you think just adding new shocks and springs would help avoid scraping everywhere I go?

 

What suspension setups have others with the same kit got, and do they have the same problem?

 

I think I remember reading about another type of car being raised by fabricating a spacer to sit at the strut mount, anyone ever heard of or used these? I know its rare to hear of comeone wanting to raise the car instead of lowering but I can't enjoy the car if I'm worrying about coming across a monster speed bump....plus I have to go over two of the b*stards to get out of my street!!

Cheers

Howdy folks, I'm getting fedup scraping over speed bumps despite going diagonal and avoiding braking into them to prevent front end dipping.

 

My z32 has a strosek replica front bumper on it which is the culprit. Its not lowered but there is very little clearance under that bumper. Suspension doesn't seem to be sagging too bad, do you think just adding new shocks and springs would help avoid scraping everywhere I go?

 

What suspension setups have others with the same kit got, and do they have the same problem?

 

I think I remember reading about another type of car being raised by fabricating a spacer to sit at the strut mount, anyone ever heard of or used these? I know its rare to hear of comeone wanting to raise the car instead of lowering but I can't enjoy the car if I'm worrying about coming across a monster speed bump....plus I have to go over two of the b*stards to get out of my street!!

Cheers

 

When I bought my car it had standard suspension as the previous owner llike yourself lived near to several speed bumps. I found that the car did "ground" out on the spoiler, having fitted coilovers its obvioulsy worse. Luckily I don't have any speed bumps near me (just shit roads).

 

The only practical advice I could give is the spoiler gets lower to the ground the further it goes under the car, you could theoretically cut some of the trailing edge of the spoiler off, thus giving marginal more groiund clearance. Hope that makes sense?

Cheers Bigh, I had popped my head under there and had noticed that there is a huge amount of bumper under there, its like a surf board! Dont think I want to start chopping into it though as I think it would reduce the strength of the overall bumper structure.

 

Anybody else out there with this bumper and newish standard or uprated suspension to chip in?

Hi I had this bumper and it is low it the price of having I sexy front end I could go ov speed humps and it used to catch on the back tray I have no solution apart from raising front somhow