I'm interested in lowering the Lightning and would like some suggestions, opinions and advise. I prefer to maintain the stock stance (I like the rack) but a little lower. The Motorsport lowering kit is my current choice as it lowers both the front and back 1 1/4 inches, I'm not interested in the slamed look. Appreciate your response.

 

This is the Bell Tech 2" front, 3" rear. Is it slammed? Rides nice too.



Tim

 

same kit as my chicken friend, HAHAHAHAHA





20 inch rims raise the trucks a tad bit too though.

 

Here is mine
Lowered a inch in the front and 2 in the rear.


I have Hotchkis front springs, I don't know if I would recomend them to most people, as they are quite stiff, and I have 2 inch shackles on the rear.

 

see link in sig for gallery of pics - 1/2 drop. Belltech 2" F150 springs (about 1" on a Lightning) and 2" rear shackles.

 

2/2 drop

Ruslow coils up front (stiffer than Hotchkis)
Shackles in the rear.

Daily driver.



Bob

 

whats the lowest you can go and still get slapper bars or traction bars?

 

Good question how low can you go and still run truck traks or any other slaper type traction bars

 

supposedly aim industries has some that will work on trucks w/ up 2 a 4/6 drop but I dunno if any one is runnin them

 

Mine is BellTech 3/4 drop with stock Bilstein shocks. After 11000km Ford found out that my front shock is leaking because of the lowering spring....
I dont know its true or not..but I ordered the QA1 shocks from JDM...Hope it will help the ride quality.



I dont feel mine is 3/4 droped...look like 2/2 to me...oh well..

 

metco is coming out with a nice setup for those with the 3/4 lowering kits.

 

After making a few mistakes, I prefer to call it "experimenting" and then some phone calls to correct those mistakes this is what I've learned. I don't think some people know the actual spring rates of stock vs. some aftermarket I sure didn't.

Front: Rear:

Stock: 650 ~160-180
Hotchkis: 960 300
Bell Tech. (3" coils): 1000
Ruslow: whatever you want 600-1600
Eibach: variable (crap, sag way to much, I learned)

Those are a few........


Good Suspension Info

Another place to look is NLOC, they have a few suspension type forums and some guys that really know their stuff.

My drop: 2/3 (Belltech 3" Coils, 2" Hotchkis Leaf, 1" drop shackle, Hotchkis sways, corrected endlinks, next I need a panard bar)