disable independent suspension?
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NYC LS8
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5 star thread.
hite337
Hite Performance
ummm...theres no button on your dash under the steering wheel to disable the independent suspension? Someone must've took it out....lol. Well you can put spot welds everywhere the suspension moves. Independent suspension had nothing to do with your car 'dropping' when you put it in drive. Sounds like you need to sell your LS and get a truck.
The bottom should not be touching any part of the road if it does you must have some suspension issues. And the car doesn't drop it simply sends the power from the torque converter down to the rear diff.
All rwd cars are like this. You must have drive a fwd appliance before.
I want to disable the wheels on my car. Every time I put the car in drive and let off the brake pedal it starts rolling; sometimes into things. Is there a button I can push or something I can do to keep the wheels from rolling? There are many, many things to run into here.
cirelle
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This is the reason I'm keeping my ls stock height. It would probably be scraping every driveway entrance, speed bump and so on. This would force me to leave it in the garage and drive my wife's Envoy. 
No hitting diddly with that thing.
No hitting diddly with that thing.
Monkeys_ls6
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Lol!!!! Awesomeness
These must be some crazy post holes for you to hit at stock height or you are taking them way too fast. You maybe have broken springs and really bad shocks if you scrape your lseverytime you hit pot holes. If these are just huge pot holes that you cant avoid, maybe get a truck or a lifted truck.
I'm lowered plus I have a pipe sticking out an inch or so below my bumper, an inch doesn't not seem like a lot but it is when you add dropping your ls and have minimal clearance.. I don't really scrape unless its a ridiculously steep driveway or just some jerk taking up both lanes trying at the entrance at which point I cant hog the whole driveway/entrance myself to take it at an angle to avoid scraping.
If you're issue is that serious, take a video of you driving over all the pot holes and things you scrape on. I'm sure most of us would like to see this in action to further help you.
I'm lowered plus I have a pipe sticking out an inch or so below my bumper, an inch doesn't not seem like a lot but it is when you add dropping your ls and have minimal clearance.. I don't really scrape unless its a ridiculously steep driveway or just some jerk taking up both lanes trying at the entrance at which point I cant hog the whole driveway/entrance myself to take it at an angle to avoid scraping.
If you're issue is that serious, take a video of you driving over all the pot holes and things you scrape on. I'm sure most of us would like to see this in action to further help you.
Ranchero50
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My rear seems to drop an inch when I put it in drive, especially when I first start it in the morning. I don't notice the car raising back up once I shut it off so I guess it's a combo of cold fluid and higher warm up idle.
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Sometimes I ride so low in the mornings, I leave skid marks to !!!
1LoudLS
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lmaoshmsfoaidmt!
but seriously, I would swap out some parts from a fox body! at least that way you could do gears...
...or just repair the worn out suspension.
the only real way to disable the IRS, would be to replace the rear coil springs for solid steel cylinders, but somethings got me thinking that its not such a great ideal.
scjmc
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Just get some load velelers like they sell for trucks. Or for the more budget minded some Monroe air shocks. Jack up the back end and drive over bumps fast. Should do the trick.
chris2523
93 Mark VIII
haha, that's a new one.
JoshMcMadMac
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