Poor Lightning Reply #1 – June 04, 2007, 06:32:01 PM eh, if it couldnt lay frame it wouldnt be bad, but thats going to far. Quote Selected
Poor Lightning Reply #2 – June 04, 2007, 06:34:20 PM Thats ALMOST as bad as this:http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1980-ford-mustang-with-body-coversion-kit-rolls-royce_W0QQitemZ110133307227QQihZ001QQcategoryZ6236QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Quote Selected
Poor Lightning Reply #4 – June 04, 2007, 07:21:11 PM Yeah, that's hideous, but at least it's like they knew they were intentionally doing that to a really common place car... well, actually I don't know how many 6-shooter fox's there were, but still. But to do that to a Lightning when you can do that to any old F-150 is just a crime. Quote Selected
Poor Lightning Reply #6 – June 04, 2007, 08:33:11 PM my god guys do you understand what it takes to get that truck, specially that year f150 whatever trim it has to get that freaking low? it wont have inner fenders, barely any room, scrubs the inside of the tires bad on turns (i bet 500 bucks on that) and the whole rear clip had to be 100% custom. http://www.minitruckinweb.com that magazine is the only one i'll buy from a news stand. im almost possitive that trucks as close to laying frame as you can get. infact i would almost bet that its a regular f150 with the lighting kit to make it lay "body" b/c in the f150 world layin body is so much work. i've seen a f150 true lightening laying body with a stock floor (usually when you do a body drop, you gotta cut the whole floor out of the truck and add one that raises the floorboards by 4 or 5 inches. and you say poor lightening? why? you think doing that makes the truck slow? the one i saw in the magazine showed slips of running low 12's. on a side note that mustang kit car is retarded. but its a kit car, if you look at a lot of kit cars, they're retarded. Quote Selected
Poor Lightning Reply #7 – June 04, 2007, 08:37:28 PM I don;t see why people can't leave sh*t alone lol. Quote Selected
Poor Lightning Reply #8 – June 04, 2007, 08:39:00 PM I actually like the lightning. Better then another s10 or other chevy dropped. Looks ok to me. Quote Selected
Poor Lightning Reply #9 – June 04, 2007, 08:53:03 PM What's everyone got against air suspension? Quote Selected
Poor Lightning Reply #10 – June 04, 2007, 08:54:52 PM nothing i just dont think a lightning should lay frame Quote Selected
Poor Lightning Reply #11 – June 04, 2007, 09:05:24 PM Doesn't make a difference to me if it only drops 3" or if it lays frame. Quote Selected
Poor Lightning Reply #12 – June 04, 2007, 09:13:01 PM I'm not denying that a lot of work was put into the car, I'm not saying that it's not fast still, I'm just saying that I think it's excessive. I have nothing against Airbags either, as a matter of fact, if I could ever affort it, I'd love to get a 4-eye bird and put a 331 in it with a C4 with a gear vendor, 9" rear, and bag it on all 4 corners with some nice 18" wheels. But it'd never come close to laying frame. I've always said the first thing I'd do if I ever got a truck would be to lower the thing since I hate the way they feel in turns. I've loved Lightnings ever since I got to ride in a family friend's the feel of going from 0 to 110 by the time we got onto the freeway from the onramp, and the sound of the blower. It was my first fast vehicle experience. So yes I suppose maybe it shouldn't be "poor Lightning" because it has a owner that obviously took really good care of it and had money to spend, but it's really not my cup of tea. Quote Selected
Poor Lightning Reply #13 – June 04, 2007, 09:40:40 PM Y'all realize that whoever built that Lightning would probably look at our cars and say "Why are they bothering fixing up Gramma's car?"...I must be out of the loop - I had never even heard of "laying frame" until I saw a Nissan truck doing it on some "power block" show this past Sunday. I don't normally watch those shows because they're nothing but 1/2 hour commercials, but that Nissan intrigued me - whether you like slamming a truck or not, it took a HELL of a lot of work to make that truck lay frame. They sectioned the rear frame and raised it to allow the axle to sink deep into it, made a custom inner box, and did a bunch of stuff to the front end. I thought it was pretty cool when they were driving down the highway and dropped it, sending sparks flying. It made me wonder though - do they reinforce the frame where it makes contact with the ground? It wouldn't take long for pavement to wear holes in it if they don't... Quote Selected
Poor Lightning Reply #14 – June 04, 2007, 09:45:38 PM I know a lotta times they'll use small blocks of titanium at the ground contact point to shoot a lot of bright sparks. Quote Selected
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