raked v. level & two-2s v. 4-the-same

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Originally Posted by oasis

Great. All that money spent, and it's going to drive worse?! Maybe I can wait to drive it. Maybe my immediate circle was right; I should have kept it stock. So far, this has been more humbling than enjoyable.

no its not going to drive worse!!! Do you remember my car?
I road around for 6 months with the nose lowered 3" and the rear
was still stock. I had Maxx struts, caster fix bushings, tie rod flip kit
uprated sway bar and topline strut bar. The car was unbelievably better
then stock. BUT, it did tend to oversteer in hard turns because the ***
end was up in the air. Once the rear was lowered 1 notch, the car drove
even better then before.


One quick note to everyone. If you measure your Super at all points
prior to lowering your car (fenders, running boards, etc), you will find that
if your running boards were exactly the same height off the ground front
and rear and left and right, you would find that your front fenders would
be aproximately 1" higher off the ground the rear fenders.

So what does all of this mean? Well I would imagine that Volkswagen intended
for the Super to have more ground clearance in the front for the wheels to
turn properly and not hit the fenders.

I prefer the look of having the fenders level vs having the car level. So for
Super Owners (this is probably true for standards as well), I would lower
lower the front of the car 1" lower then the rear. From the ground it will have
a slight rake, but when you look at the car from the side, you will see that
both fenders are evenly positioned over the wheels with the same gap.

So you have to ask yourself, do you want your car to be level according to
the ground or lbe evel according to your fenders? I prefer the latter!!!