Did a search on this and nothing came up , but how much clearance does the mazdaspeed kit leave on the rx-8 ? Cause I am thinking of getting some springs that drop it 1" , and was thinkin damn .... gonna be pretty close to the floor ? 8/ Anyone know how much clearance is left ?

 

A few of our forum members have the kit with springs installed. RXHusker is one of them. Wait, I think he's on coilovers. I can tell you that on my ride, AutoExe kit and coilovers on 19s I've got about 4" of clearance in the front. I rarely have difficultys with steep aprons and never had a problem with speed bumps. The secret is to approch opsticals at an angle as apposed to straight on.

 

thanks for the heads up vivid , sounds like I maybe scraping on the speed bumps maybe if I drop it 1"

 

MazdaSpeed front and side is about that...

Try to contact (P/M I suppose) cortc... he has the MS body kit and the MazdaSpeed sping/shock on.

 

These are from MazdaSpeed site

 

No. I don't think you'll be scraping on speed bumps. I can go over those straight on with out a problem.

 

wow thanks for the info everyone, I think I'll leave it stock height with ms style kit for now. Maybe later I'll add some springs and MS shocks. Thanks for the help everyone.

 

With the Mazdaspeed suspension the MS body kit has 4 1/2 inches of clearance front and side... Speed bumps are not a problem but parking stops are, when you park make sure to stay far away...

 

i hope i never bottom out but will measure it soon just in case
i get a full kit

 

Amen to that! You'll have to get to know whare the front of the nose is. A good marker that I use is If I can line up the parking block in the space next to me with the bottom of my side mirror then I usually end up with about a foot of clearance from the parking block.