Question about Blitz and lowering

[SleekAh]

I'm looking into buying a blitz kit for my '00 celica, and from the pics of installed kits it looks pretty low. I've already got Eibach springs to lower it 1"-1.5". Just wanted to get a general idea of how much ground clearance I'll have.
Any input appreciated.

Thanks!

[evil eye]

You'll be scraping everywhere, even at stock height. Better make sure the front is urethane.

[TRD604]

heh..i was thinkin of getting blitz too....but im sitting on eibach sportlines. if i do get the blitz, im gonna have to get some coilovers as well....

[stein]

Originally posted by evil eye
You'll be scraping everywhere, even at stock height. Better make sure the front is urethane.

This is the main reason I don't get a kit.

[SleekAh]

Yeah, I've got the eibach prokit, so I think I'll be able to pull it off.. the blitz is the only kit I like and I'm getting a pretty good deal on it so I guess I'll try it out. If I **** it up I guess I'll just have to pick a new front :P
Thanks for the help.

[evensen007]

Originally posted by SleekAh
the blitz is the only kit I like and I'm getting a pretty good deal on it so I guess I'll try it out. If I **** it up I guess I'll just have to pick a new front :P
Thanks for the help.

Lol!!! I love that attitude. I'm whining about whether or not I can trust a certain FG front bumper to hold up, and you just say **** it, if it breaks it breaks. That's how I need to look at it. If you like it enough, go for it. If it breaks, your life doesn't end, right!?

[Mafiesto]

That's why we buy urethane. It takes a massive impact to break. I got ran off the road and clipped a guard rail and it just knocked some paint off my kam front.

[SleekAh]

Urethane are two inches lower I heard?
I'm getting a deal on a fiberglass one, but apparently they're now as close to the ground as the urethane ones..
(I don't know how much truth there is to that, but that's what I was told)

Originally posted by evensen007
Lol!!! I love that attitude. I'm whining about whether or not I can trust a certain FG front bumper to hold up, and you just say **** it, if it breaks it breaks. That's how I need to look at it. If you like it enough, go for it. If it breaks, your life doesn't end, right!?

I dunno... a ton of **** has gone wrong with my celica, and I always got really upset (I cried when a shop royally ****ed up my sound system.. really). I think I'm becoming desensitized, something bad happens to my car atleast once a month (most recently my sister backing into my car IN THE DRIVEWAY!)

I just kinda go "oh well.. coulda been worse" and usually something worse does happen within a month or so :P

[mtskibum16]

I have a blitz front with TRD springs and it is pretty low. If you learn to manuever the car over bumps, hills, etc, etc, you can drive without too much scraping. You deffinately have to pay more attention to what you are doing though...

[SleekAh]

That's exactly what I wanted to hear!!! :) Thanks.

[mtskibum16]

Originally posted by SleekAh
That's exactly what I wanted to hear!!! :) Thanks.
Plus, with a bumper that low no body will ever see that the bottom is scraped anyways...lol

Edit--make sure that you get a urethane front

[SleekAh]

Originally posted by SleekAh
Urethane are two inches lower I heard?
I'm getting a deal on a fiberglass one, but apparently they're now as close to the ground as the urethane ones..
(I don't know how much truth there is to that, but that's what I was told)



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[mtskibum16]

There are two styles...the JDM style and the USDM style. The USDM style is prob about 2 inches lower than the JDM style. That goes for both urethane and fiberglass. So the only way that a urethane bumper would be 2inches lower than than a fiberglass one is if the urethane one was usdm and the fiberglass one was jdm.

[SleekAh]

Thanks for the clarification. The kit I'm looking at is the USDM style... will I be able to handle a drop with the lower of the two? :\

[TRD604]

i want the jdm, but can never find it.

[mtskibum16]

Originally posted by SleekAh
Thanks for the clarification. The kit I'm looking at is the USDM style... will I be able to handle a drop with the lower of the two? :\
I have the US style in urethane with TRD springs. I feel that I could even drop lower and still be fine!