Ok i lowered the car with the tien s-techs and kyb agx's, yeah i know right at the edge of the drop they will handle but i'm not worried about their warranty, anyway when i accelerate i get a weird shimmy or vibration in the steering wheel/pedals, only feel it under moderate acceleration like between 2k and 3k rpm when just accelerating from like 35-55 mph, i know the ideal drop for the axles and control arms to be level is like 1.5 but i didnt think the 1.7 drop in the front of the s-techs would cause any issues with them but it almost feels like it is the axles or something. bye the way its an 05 ls sport automatic with about 30k miles on it and about 1k on the springs and shocks
Did you get an alignment after installing that stuff? That could be the major factor.
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yeah the camber was not off much and i got the toe fixed
so yeah i got the alignment and the vibe didnt go away
When's the last time your wheels were balanced?
How are your strut mounts? Did you use the washers that came with the AGX's?
yeah i used the spacers that came with the agx's, my wheels where balanced about 5k ago but then again they sat over the winter in a heated garage, i am going to pull the wheels and retighten the lugs and see if that helps
still there went out and checked the lugs and air in the tires, my brother is a mechanic, he is coming home this weekend so hopefully we can figure it out, i would saay it was a balancing issues but it is only when i am accelating so i kind of rulled that out
i dunno anything about the spring kit but if there was nothing that came with it that would keep the tire angle at stock setting (like an alignment kit) then the tires will always find away to become toe out, no matter how many alignments you have done. ive heard of this type of thing on lowered cars. if theres no alignment tool, or kit the wheels wont stay at the right angle. whether its off by not that much or a lot, having a messed up wheel angle will always be bad in the end as well. when they do finally straighten out, the tires will have worn funny and will shake and shimmy and all that good stuff, worse than it may have already.
really, good luck with this man.
i got the toe fixed right after lowering the car and the cmaber showed with in specs, it did this right after alignment and everyhting we even double checked the alignment
yeah i used a snap-on torgue wrench and torqued them down to 100lbs
