It's been about 5 hours since I picked my Zed up with it's new Bomex front bumper fitted and guess what.........? I have bashed the front of it already going up a small incline! Its just chipped it a little but will still need to go back to the bodyshop to have the nicks filled and painted.

 

Obviously I can't have thgis happen every time I go out in it so I guess my only option is to raise the ride height a bit on the front?

 

I am running KYB's all round and have unknown progessive springs which cut the ride height by quite a bit. With the standard front end I just about got away with everything but now with the bomex on I have no chance.

 

I guess I will have to swap the springs to probably take the car to standard ride height but I don't want to lose my nice sharp handling by putting standard springs back on so can anyone recommend anything for me? Maybe a stiffer spring that will still raise the suspension to stock height?

 

Is anyone else running aftermarket front bumpers with lowered suspension with any success?

 

Cheers,

 

Justin

Ive got Wings West front, 18" Alloys, Eibach Springs and AGX Shockers the adjustable dampening ones. I can get over speedbumps no problem but I am a bit dubious about anything else. I scrap my bumpers every day getting on and off driveway (stupid camber road) although it was fine when car was standard lol.

Sorry to here about the nick m8.

I guess have an aftermarket bumper on a lowered zed is not a good plan.

 

I wonder how much higher I can get my car with standard shocks.

 

The measurement between the ground and the arch is 26 inches.

 

Does anyone have a "non saggy" standard set up that they could measure for me?

 

I don't want to have to get rid of this bumper as I love it!

 

I have KYB AGX shocks. If I was to put standard springs on and then set my KYB's to the stiffest damping setting would this compensate for the loss of stiffness from swapping my uprated springs with stock?