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Old Jan 15, 2005 | 11:28 PM
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The Eibachs have been on about a week now - they did settle a bit, maybe 3/4" or so from when I brought it home that day.

Overall it's a major plus I'm thinking..

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Old Jan 16, 2005 | 12:26 PM
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how difficult was it to realighn?
 
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Old Jan 16, 2005 | 01:00 PM
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Watch out for those concrete wheel stops in parking lots, my RT is stock height and I already "RUB" on the tops of those nasty stops. I hate to hear that scratching sound.

My RT sits low enough as it is, no need to go lower.

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Old Jan 17, 2005 | 05:47 AM
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ailignment seems to be a pain for the rear. well, not so much alignment i guess but the camber. It is still a little on the neg. side and there is no adjustment to get it back, so untill a new trailing arm comes out it is something to just deal with, rotate them tires baby.
 
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Old Jan 28, 2005 | 01:18 AM
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rotate them tires baby.
Darn tooting! I totally agree, and since the oil change place I use will also rotate for cheap too, I think I'll trade them around every oil change...

Which way does Dodge recommend rotating? i don't remember seeing that in the book, but then I wasn't looking for that part..
Side to side, front-to-back? Kitty-Korner?

Hard to do the traditional 5-tire deal nowadays - how many folks have checked to see if there is any air in the spare?
My beautiful brand new 1981 Plymouth Reliant Wagon came with an empty... (my RT's had 56 if I remember correctly)

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Old Jan 28, 2005 | 03:58 PM
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ORIGINAL: FOURTEEN


" just want to fill in the wheel-wells a little bit more. "


Larger wheels will give the illusion of fuller wheel wheels while maintaining full suspension travel and ground clearance, and the wider tires will improve handling!!

Which of these wheel wells looks fuller?? 18" or 22"??






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Do the two cars above have the same suspension? In any event, the larger wheels don't look fuller. They just look big, with almost no sidewall on the tire. That would be a rough ride on most streets. The backspacing on the top car's wheels isn't right either -- I don't care for that ricer 4x4 look.
 
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Old Jan 29, 2005 | 05:03 PM
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I agree with you Bob>>>But I like the looks of the wheel opening full of tire and wheel>>>but would not like ride of little side wall hight tire>>>It might be better in magnum had more ground clearance for those damn concrete stops>>>>My wife drive up on concrete stops in her car and raises car up an inch or two>> then puts car in reverse real quick and back off it>>>like that will fix it>>>

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Old Jan 29, 2005 | 07:49 PM
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I agree with you Bob>>>But I like the looks of the wheel opening full of tire and wheel>>>but would not like ride of little side wall hight tire>>>It might be better in magnum had more ground clearance for those damn concrete stops>>>>My wife drive up on concrete stops in her car and raises car up an inch or two>> then puts car in reverse real quick and back off it>>>like that will fix it>>>

Buddy in KY
This is exactly why I'm not going to lower my wife's Magnum. She has already scrapped the foward belly pan on curbs.

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Old Feb 4, 2005 | 01:37 PM
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Just to make sure but is there two pro-kit's, one for the RT and one for the others? I know the sportlines are only for the RT. The reason I ask is that I installed the prokit into the front last night and drove it around the block to turn the car into the drive backwards and I heard some spring rattling, the sound of as if the spring were too short and it were bouncing around in the carriage. I have done this many times with no issues on other cars. Just wondering if there is something I am missing before I strip off everything again. Thanks in advance.
 
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