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lets see them unibody dropped cars.........

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One Ton Garage   +1y
Not my car... but a pretty bad ass toyota crown majesta from a shop in Japan called You Zealand... from what I remember, this thing has new flat floorpans (that effectively become bellypans), frame rails relocated upwards, lifted front and rear susp subframes, tucked exhaust, radiused fenders, etc. The radiused fenders are why the wheels aren't tucked even though the car is as low as it is... which imo makes the car look more sleek and low overall, since it looks almost oem to those who don't know what's up; but then you look at the car, notice it's super sliggity slammed, and wonder how that's possible. The radiused fenders also reduce the fender height (the distance between the wheelwell opening and the top of the fender), which visually makes a car appear lower too... notice the fender height of exotic sports cars vs. normal passenger cars, for instance. Ohhh yeah, and another thing, this car isn't on air.. it actually drives at this height on coilovers, and it puts on lots of mileage too, as the owner actually drives it throughout most of japan to shows/meets a couple times a month (and figure japan is almost as large as California, so that's quite a bit of actual street driving, through smooth and crappy roads). The killer pics... are of the car on a track! I'd like to see more people do builds like this in the US...
NotFast   +1y
That car is badass!
LaidNeon   +1y
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One Ton Garage   +1y
While I'm at it...another car from Japan.. this time an older Nissan Laurel. Note that this car is on coilovers NOT air, and the guy DOES drive around at this height! No 4x4ing with air for them!Original setup with flipped/pulled fenders:

Then he decided it was time to radius the fenders to better frame the wheels:

Then he got new, larger diameter wheels to go along with the radiused fenders (hey, they're like my wheels too! )

Tires on:

Outside:

Note the coilovers:

Granted, this is no longer the guy's daily driver, but he does drive it around at that height while he's continually working on the car... says he scrapes on almost everything >HAHA
crippled4life   +1y
that is absolutely insane that he can drive that with the negative camber like that. can u say baller status?...anyone know who built the purple civic or the mazda's rear leverage/cantilever systems?
disfiguredS10   +1y
At the risk of sounding like every person that sees my truck.....how does he drive it that low? It looks like it would drag on every little imperfection.
lost cause   +1y
^^^Don't know, but I'll bet he wears out tires like a champ!
dirty   +1y
Edited: 4/22/2008 5:03:15 PM by dirt mcgirt

Edited: 4/22/2008 5:02:15 PM by dirt mcgirt



heres my heap
VtecCrx   +1y
Honestly I wouldn't want to drive a car like that. I've had my fair share of dumped cars and have a car and truck on airbags. I hate driving around with a cringe look on my face just waiting to screw something up scraping on a piece of pea gravel. I love dumped cars on big wheels, but I think thats taking it a little far....
rUdDa   +1y
Originally posted by crippled4life



that is absolutely insane that he can drive that with the negative camber like that. can u say baller status?...anyone know who built the purple civic or the mazda's rear leverage/cantilever systems?

the mazdas rear setup was done by kings customs also had a 2 inch strut lift n re tubbed all round..