Speed Humps

Wanna share with all of you, introducing the great speed humps that ruined my exhaust & body kits...
 
I believe you guys have similar story with this thing (before runnin on air off course)...
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Any taller one than this? Post it here :smiley:

It doesnt look so high, but looking at the road after it you can see that it has taken a few people by surprise. So is the damage bad?
 
I cant complain about speedhumps anymore. I scrape pretty bad on anything over 5cm high, so even "regulation" speedhumps (10cm) are too much

um....sideways...angle?
Ive been over taller, and im like 2 and a half iches off the ground

Is that around 8cm? IMHO, it's not the height of the bumps, but the length of the bumps that gets me. Ya know... those short and tall bumps?

I've been thinking about this, all the people a couple cm's off the ground, how the hell are you getting over some of this stuff? I know I'm going to have to deal with it sooner or later. 

Even then, If you know you can't get over/around something, what do you do when you have traffic behind you? lol

Bite the bullet and turn a deaf ear perhaps? That's what I did... Almost beached my ride a few times... Wheel spinning and all.

[quote=eightsixgts;98347]I've been thinking about this, all the people a couple cm's off the ground, how the hell are you getting over some of this stuff? I know I'm going to have to deal with it sooner or later. 
 
Even then, If you know you can't get over/around something, what do you do when you have traffic behind you? lol[/quote]
 
 
go sideways...and slow...i always got my car over bumps and my frame was 3 fingers from the floor...i try to get one front wheel over as that one is touch the ground i try to get the other front to be just hitting the bump...and then have it go back to the left and then the right rear...example below...i kno it looks bad...im not good with paint..lol
 
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yeah dude, ifi know im not gonna make it, as long as i know my FMIC wont get ripped of, ill gun it and launch it

ive had to do it a few times where my rear tire would tuck so far up into the well it stops on the metal inside....so i had to push it back bu hand, and the just ramp it....shit happens

[quote=Dominik;98307]It doesnt look so high, but looking at the road after it you can see that it has taken a few people by surprise. So is the damage bad?
 
I cant complain about speedhumps anymore. I scrape pretty bad on anything over 5cm high, so even "regulation" speedhumps (10cm) are too much[/quote]
 
It's about 7.4" high. Damage caused:
-unrepairable front body kit
-holes on exhaust pipe 
-engine mounting altered, moved back around 1 cm

[quote=urmyhero4now;98416]go sideways...and slow...i always got my car over bumps and my frame was 3 fingers from the floor...i try to get one front wheel over as that one is touch the ground i try to get the other front to be just hitting the bump...and then have it go back to the left and then the right rear...example below...i kno it looks bad...im not good with paint..lol
 
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Did not work for me that time. The lenght of it killing my exhaust pipe, all the way from down pipe to the muffler...

Sucks.  There are some things you really can't avoid.  Im always going down back streets in quest to find a new route that has less potholes.  I got all the streets memorized, people always ask why im going around a big ass circle when I could of just went up the short way.  Just try to look like 20 feet infront of you and if you see something you know you cant get over, pull over or even reverse down the block lol.

I don't have pics, but my car kinda ate it a few weeks ago going through a Wendy's parking lot where they just added some 8" speed bumps. I swear the sound of the exhaust scraping I thought I was going to rip the exhaust manifolds off.

i keep dragging my FMIC going into parking lots....imagine if my front bumper was on....fuck

Daily drove at this height for 6 months before the car was parted and sold....

Subframe sat 1/4" lower and the car did settle after these pics were taken.

Yeah...  I scraped.

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havent yet had a car that low...my friend on the other hand....he was at one point so low that he was scraping stock exhaust/muffler trying to go over curbs into driveways. he almost practially ripped off his exhaust front bumer one time on a short high speed bump.

When yo take off road turtles changing lanes on the freeway ill consider you low.

;)

SIG MATERIAL! thank you! LOL that made my boring ass day at work funny.

What.....  No recognition for the quote?    ;)

I honestly miss being that low, people would just stop on the sidewalk and try to look under my front bumper.  When it was driving at you, it literally looked like the lip was touching the ground.  I just couldnt get my self to drive that statically low in a luxury car.....  But thats what Air is for.

I do fully plan on being the lowest y33 in the states.

[quote=golfkid777;99021]Daily drove at this height for 6 months before the car was parted and sold....
 
Subframe sat 1/4" lower and the car did settle after these pics were taken.
 
Yeah... I scraped.
 
 
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Cool airbrush graphics...:biggthumpup:  jk man, jk, hehehe...

i cant believe people actually attempt to take on any bumps head on.  i used to ALWAYS hit the angle and if, for instance, it was in a drive-thru, id park the car and walk through the drive-thru.  i hated hearing that scrape.

[quote=Pseudonym;99140]i cant believe people actually attempt to take on any bumps head on.  i used to ALWAYS hit the angle and if, for instance, it was in a drive-thru, id park the car and walk through the drive-thru.  i hated hearing that scrape.[/quote]
I tried that once and Wendys said they didn't take walk thru people. The only problem is, the actual inside part of it was closed at the time.

[QUOTE=kreasims;99114]Cool airbrush graphics...:biggthumpup:  jk man, jk, hehehe...[/QUOTE]

HAHAHA!  Guys at the body shop I worked at having fun with an estimators pen, at least it was all primer anyway.

lol u crazy ... thats why u drive hella slow or walk ...

[quote=golfkid777;99051]When yo take off road turtles changing lanes on the freeway ill consider you low.

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Ok, i didnt take OFF a road turtle
but one took off my exhaust and bumper?
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Are you sure it wasn't a road tortoise?! That must have been a major hit

i measured it, and inch high...

My friend (who lives in an apt) woke up one morning with several speedbumps installed in the parking lot. His car was stuck...and several others!! :smiley-rofl:

[QUOTE=Yokotas13;101183]i measured it, and inch high...[/QUOTE]

hah! That's awesome.

I'm having mixed feelings about doing a car lower than my Protege. And by mixed feelings, I mean, seeing stuff like your exhaust on the ground makes me uneasy, but I'm still going to do it.

eh, like i say 
you gotta pay to play
i try and follow the roots of VIP

low and wide.
without those two, your a poser

Eh its one thing to drive a hatch that low, but a full size sedan?  I can barely get my y33 in some parking garages in downtown seattle at stock height....!!!

^ You can always get air suspension

I have most of my air suspension already installed in the Q.  Just need to decide on what strut set-up I will be going with because so far I have not seen a low enough y33 in the states for my taste.

[QUOTE=Yokotas13;101334]
low and wide.
without those two, your a poser[/QUOTE]

I always said, "Low and Slow."

but low and wide works :P.


On the Ohiodrifting.com forums where I posted up my car, someone changed my forum status to, "Too low for fat hoes."

well i cant say low and slow, becuase i drive my y33 like my 180 or stagea...