Lower Models?

['08SEAL]

How do you lower a kit?

[stewart]

Too many ways to count. The question is a little bit hard to answer because it is somewhat ambiguous. Could you post a picture of the model you are lowering?

The easiest way for the front is just to take some kind of heat source such as a candle, lighter, or pencil torch and soften the plastic. then just move the supports to wherever you want them. The back can be done in a similar way by modifying the leaf springs, making a whole new suspension, raising the suspension mounts, cutting down coilovers, and such. If you want to lower the kit very much, you might have to "tub" it. You will need to find some larger wheel wells and graft them on in place of the originals or just make your own from a lid off a spray bottle or something like that.

Hope that's helpful. If you want more specific advice, please be more specific in your question. Once again, it would be helpful to know which kit you want to lower.

STewart

[91blaze]

If you want it to be really realistic, you should research how the actual vehicle would be lowered. Just Google the vehicle you're looking for and you should easily find something. If you're good at scratch building it shouldn't be too hard, otherwise just bending the suspension parts would work too. If you know what type of vehicle you want to lower then it would make it much easier for people to help you.

[Jantrix]

A couple of photos of the actual suspension components the kit comes with would ge great here. Because it differs for each type of suspension.

[JMD904]

Leaf springs usually get leaves taken away or have the arch taken out of the equation when made new. The old school guys just heated them up, used lowering blocks and used springs from something else. Coil springs just don't have as many coils. This is easily modeled, just splice out a coil or 2. Stewart's trick oughta work. I have had though of shaving the leaf springs down or scratchbuild 'em.