CHE lower rear control arms

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CHE lower rear control arms

June 27, 2008, 08:48:10 PM

Hey guys I'm going to be ordering some control arms soon and I was wondering about what lowers to get. It appears that with the adjustable rears you can only raise your ride height and from what research I've done on here the only people that seem to be happy with the adjustable lowers are using mach 1 or bullitt rear springs. Now if I get the adjustable lowers am I limiting myself to mach/bullitt springs?

I'm curious because I plan on lowering this car at some point in time and will more than likely be using H&R springs/ or if money permits going coil over in the front and using the H&R for the rear. And ideally if I had the adjustable arms in the rear with coilovers up front then I could set my car anywhere I wanted to.

CHE lower rear control arms

Reply #1 – June 28, 2008, 04:01:33 AM

I'm using bullitts so I can't answer about stock springs,why don't you put the lowering springs in now while you have it apart,you can pretty much keep the stock height with the ajusters and still lower it if you want.

CHE lower rear control arms

Reply #2 – June 28, 2008, 09:48:01 AM

I need to buy a set of rims to lower my car so right now, that option is out.

CHE lower rear control arms

Reply #3 – June 28, 2008, 09:59:00 AM

The adjustables will lift the rear of the car by an inch or more. The Mach 1 springs are used to bring it back down. If you use Mach springs with adjustables now you can adjust 'em to stock height until you want to lower the car, then crank 'em down (you'll be able to get about 1.5" of drop)

CHE lower rear control arms

Reply #4 – June 28, 2008, 11:06:46 AM

Yep, I am nearly stock height with mine using the CHE adjustables and Mach1 springs (I had to adjust up about 1 1/4" on the CHE adjusters to get stock height with the Mach1 springs.) There is lots of room to adjust downward too so you could then lower the car using the same springs - good deal all around for you IMHO.

Check it out - this is with Mach1 springs and those are stock height tires (275/40/17):

CHE lower rear control arms

Reply #5 – June 28, 2008, 11:16:05 AM

I'm using the moog cargo coils with my CHE adjustable rears, although they raised the rear to about where I was looking for they might be too high for someone else.

CHE lower rear control arms

Reply #6 – June 28, 2008, 09:48:39 PM

Well thanks guys, you've confirmed what I thought. And yes I would like to lower the car, but I can only lower the rear ATM because my rims have no offset and stick out too far up front

. So I think I will probably end up just ordering the non adjustables, I really don't want to add an extra 1inch even for the time being to the rear end. The thing already sits up in the air like a truck.

CHE lower rear control arms

Reply #7 – July 03, 2008, 06:33:03 AM

Quote from: GrannysBird;225099

Well thanks guys, you've confirmed what I thought. And yes I would like to lower the car, but I can only lower the rear ATM because my rims have no offset and stick out too far up front . So I think I will probably end up just ordering the non adjustables, I really don't want to add an extra 1inch even for the time being to the rear end. The thing already sits up in the air like a truck.

I have a set of Maximum motorsport non-adjustable lowers that I want to sell. I can do $135 shipped (half $$ :) ) for them let me know if your interested I can send some pics tonight.

CHE lower rear control arms

Reply #8 – December 06, 2008, 02:44:27 PM

Quote from: Bob;225684

I have a set of Maximum motorsport non-adjustable lowers that I want to sell. I can do $135 shipped (half $$ :) ) for them let me know if your interested I can send some pics tonight.

I thought Maximum Motorsport LCA's wouldn't work on our cars Bob. What gives?

CHE lower rear control arms

Reply #9 – December 06, 2008, 02:55:07 PM

Quote from: 88 Blackbird 5.0;246466

I thought Maximum Motorsport LCA's wouldn't work on our cars Bob. What gives?

Well this is kind of an old post but here maybe you don't know how to use http://www.maximummotorsports.com/

and look at the catalog? Part #: MMRLCA-3

what gives?

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Reply #10 – December 06, 2008, 03:10:45 PM

Quote from: Bob;246468

Well this is kind of an old post but here maybe you don't know how to use http://www.maximummotorsports.com/

and look at the catalog? Part #: MMRLCA-3

what gives?

No need for the attitude Bob. From doing a search on LCA's I got the impression that CHE's and Lakewoods were about the only options out there for LCA's (for our cars). I'm just trying to educate myself here.

CHE lower rear control arms

Reply #11 – December 06, 2008, 03:16:37 PM

That is great news that MM makes LCA's for our cars though. It looks like I'll be giving them a call to order some soon. :D

CHE lower rear control arms

Reply #12 – December 06, 2008, 03:47:39 PM

Quote from: 88 Blackbird 5.0;246472

No need for the attitude Bob. From doing a search on LCA's I got the impression that CHE's and Lakewoods were about the only options out there for LCA's (for our cars). I'm just trying to educate myself here.

theres no attitude here, I gave you part number and a link.. and a rolling smilely LOL..

CHE lower rear control arms

Reply #13 – December 06, 2008, 05:00:21 PM

It's good that you realized I wasn't trying to be a miscreant when I said I didn't think MM made LCA's for our cars. My only exposure to MM control arms and their offerings(until today), was a trip to Stangsuspension.com. I looked through all the MM LCA's there and didn't find any that would fit Birds, or Cougars.

Unfortunately, while perusing through MM's site, I didn't see any adjustable LCA's for our cars. Only fixed ones. Since I want adjustable lowers, I'll stick with the CHE's.

Thanks for the enlightenment.

CHE lower rear control arms

Reply #14 – December 06, 2008, 08:06:00 PM

heres a search on MM "thunderbird"