Lowered LC 1958

[thehardway]

I know some people will love to hate a lowered LC but for my use case lowering the LC made sense. I drive it 90% on road with some gravel & mild off-road when camping etc. plus have a few other fun vehicles so the LC is the daily driver.

I live in NH and mostly drive small twistie paved roads so wanted to improve the on-road handling a bit while still managing snow, ice and back roads with easy.

I'm running 17x8 +20 Bradley V wheels with 285/70 Yokohama Geolandar tires (1" bigger diameter than stock on the 1958 s raised the vehicle .5"). With the Tanabe lowering springs it now sits about 1" lower in the front and 1.5" lower in the rear than it was stock so a pretty mild drop.

The wider stance from the lower offset wheels and wider tires made handling a lot nicer already and now with the lower center of gravity and slightly stiffer spring rate it feels like a whole different vehicle. There's hardly any body roll now when cornering compared to stock and noticeably less dive and squat under hard braking and acceleration.

Overall I couldn't be happier, the vehicle feels so much more planted and stable now through corners and the ride is still pretty plush, just a tad firmer than stock which is perfect for me.

 

[Doggman1525]

No hate here, cool!

 

[Area 51]

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I know some people will love to hate a lowered LC but for my use case lowering the LC made sense. I drive it 90% on road with some gravel & mild off-road when camping etc. plus have a few other fun vehicles so the LC is the daily driver.

I live in NH and mostly drive small twistie paved roads so wanted to improve the on-road handling a bit while still managing snow, ice and back roads with easy.

I'm running 17x8 +20 Bradley V wheels with 285/70 Yokohama Geolandar tires (1" bigger diameter than stock on the 1958 s raised the vehicle .5"). With the Tanabe lowering springs it now sits about 1" lower in the front and 1.5" lower in the rear than it was stock so a pretty mild drop.

The wider stance from the lower offset wheels and wider tires made handling a lot nicer already and now with the lower center of gravity and slightly stiffer spring rate it feels like a whole different vehicle. There's hardly any body roll now when cornering compared to stock and noticeably less dive and squat under hard braking and acceleration.

Overall I couldn't be happier, the vehicle feels so much more planted and stable now through corners and the ride is still pretty plush, just a tad firmer than stock which is perfect for me.

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