My Viper continues to hate me

[Badinternet]

Recently brought her in for a coil-over install, and when they shook down the suspension, the damn control arm popped off the ball joint—basically pushed right through it. Ball joint completely failed.

So, that's cool.

 

[Badinternet]

Sweeet

 

[MoparMap]

Look at it this way, at least it happened while it was at the shop on the rack and not while you were driving. ***** either way though.

 

[GTS Dean]

Dang I've never seen that before. Time for a new-used wishbone and have a close look at the knuckle.

 

[Badinternet]

As an aside, the plan was to do .5in lower with coil overs. Is there a consensus on ideal height to reduce wheel gap but also not scrape everywhere?

 

[MoparMap]

My 04 is probably somewhere between 0.25-0.5" lower than stock if I remember correctly and I haven't really had much for issues. Still have to be careful, but it's also pretty flat where I live.

 

[white out]

As an aside, the plan was to do .5in lower with coil overs. Is there a consensus on ideal height to reduce wheel gap but also not scrape everywhere?

25mm/1"/1 finger would likely be a more noticeable drop and still have plenty of ground clearance.

 

[EastCoastSRT10]

As far as height goes you’re going to want about 4.5” from the frame to the ground right behind the front wheel well. I was scraping on steep inclines/declines at 4” but not as much at 4.5”.

Rear height will depend on how much rake you want and what generation car. I think gen 1 and 2s can run lower rear heights without scraping since they don’t have a rear diffuser but at 4.5” right in front of the rear wheel well from frame to ground my diffuser was scraping on hard dips in the road so I raised it up to about 5.25”