What does the stance crowd think about...

[Stan Marsh]

the setup I am running with isn't as convenient as most people's are, its not going to be super quick for me to just bump everything up. Plus as weird as this sounds, I enjoy scraping. When I had my old MK3 GTI I was less than a half inch off the ground at the oil pan and I enjoyed scraping because it made me feel something that I guess I cant find words to explain. But I didn't enjoy going down a road that was like pot hole city and ripping a 4" hole into my oil pan even though I was only doing about 10 mph.

[SeanDub]

I'm not knockin bags, I'm just saying its less respectable in the sense that you don't HAVE TO drive that height. Obviously no one knows what you do when you're rollin daily, but I find it hard to believe that you're gonna drag your car over every Driveway, bump, or imperfection you come across if you're on bags. Us on coils have no choice.

[Stan Marsh]

Its different with bags because they dont drive at their stationary height like guys on coils do.

Don't worry guys once I man up and buy my bags, I'll blow everyones mind. And I only plan on raising my car up enough for the wheels to roll (aka less than .25") I know several guys on bags who drive at almost stock ride height and it bugs the hell out of me. My reasoning and only reasoning for going with bags is to save my oil pan when I am in areas when I absolutely need to have ground clearance.

[blue bags]

i totally agree, there are plenty of people with bags that have terrible offsets and tire sizes and still have crap hover-craft stance. and it depends on the operator of the bags, i can drive lower than i ever could on modified maxed out coils, and park lower, but it really depends on the car, on mk5 gtis its much easier to get lower on coils because the body is lower in relation to the frame/pan

[SeanDub]

Its different with bags because they dont drive at their stationary height like guys on coils do.

[Stan Marsh]

Bro this is seriously amazing. Well done.


I think bags are sorta cheating, that's why guys who run coils get more respect. It takes more work to figure out a stance by working offsets, tire sizes, and coilover heights than it does by laying frame with bags.

how does it differ with bags? please do tell. Its the same game to get good stance with bags. I **** people who just get bags to go low low low and lay frame with no stance. it looks like shit.

[EThirtySicks]

Bro this is seriously amazing. Well done.


I think bags are sorta cheating, that's why guys who run coils get more respect. It takes more work to figure out a stance by working offsets, tire sizes, and coilover heights than it does by laying frame with bags.

[doug118]

yeah I'm from Providence and these roads blow

[blue bags]

providence place? or another garage? that mall has the very worst entrances and exits for lowered cars. even my girls stock beetle scraps if we try to leave at over 10mph

yea, i hit my bumper everywhere, i dont care about that, but the metal rails scraped down my whole damn frame

[OSSHWA]

It really depends on the car for me. My next build is gonna be an RX-8, which I plan on slamming via JIC-Magic FLT-FAS coilovers. They provide a 2.5" drop to an already low car, plus I plan on running very aggressive camber specs and likely the wildest stretch any RX-8 has ever seen.....not to mention the Chargespeed Bottom Line cf lip kit all around.....so the combination of everything will quite literally sit the car on the ground. But in some cases, like a daily driver (which the RX-8 will NOT be by any means) or a VIP style car when you may wanna actually retain some comfort and practicality.....then bags would be the way to go.

[doug118]

for instance the parking garage in providence, my car literally got stuck on the metal rail connecting the concrete slabs together every time i went

providence place? or another garage? that mall has the very worst entrances and exits for lowered cars. even my girls stock beetle scraps if we try to leave at over 10mph

[nyy42]

bags are for fa...

[psiglx]

love this topic because i have had both

2 years ago i would never in a million years buy bags. i looked at it as being the same as a the people that go to a show and crank their coilovers down in the show field...cheaters

i rode in my friends mk3 gti in austria at worthersee and found out how the ride was, how well it handled, and how great it was for speed bumps and steep drives.

i loved the static drop on my mk3's and love the reaction of my oilpan sparking in the middle of the night from a dip in the rode but now i can say i love the bags and dont think i would build a car without them again. that being said even my wifes opinion is towards the bags. much better ride quality and shes already planned for them on our tdi sportwagen. her mini on the other hand will be a static drop strictly because she wants to make it a track car and doesnt need it low (so she says)...

[Stan Marsh]

I personally love bags, thats just me though. I have been debating between doing anything to my GTI or just leaving it stock and driving it. But if I do it will be on bags, and it will be driven less than 1" off the ground. I only want bags for road obstacles. I went through 3 pans on my old MK3 that was about 3/4" off the ground at the pan and I dont want to deal with that shit again.

[TillRodsFly]

I personally would NEVER rock bags on ANY car that was originally thought of as a sports car. IMO, bags should be reserved lowrider mini/full size truck crowd just like old skool lowriders deserve an old skool set-up like hydros. I just feel coilovers are the proper way to go on a "sports" type car, especially if any kind of performance is desired.




Here is a pic of my friends van with bags. DON'T ****! He is a quadrapalegic so he HAS to have a van to get around and loves customizing. I mean, what else can you really do with a full size van? I think bags fit something like this.

The shows he attends mainly give you points for things that are "not factory", so that pretty much explains why it is so wild. Needless to say, he pretty much wins every show he enters. He now has a new style Avalanche front end and the hood opens similar to an e30 since this pic. There is even real $100 bills clearcoated in the hood.