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If your using the car for the wife and kid on trips.....I would not lower it. Use body kit or dams.
Really.
I am on several infiniti sites and somebody is always all hot to lower the car....never fails they go back to stock if they do ANY driving at all.
1. when you lower....you scrap. period. or you drive so slow people honk.
2. you would have to drop 2 inches to notice any gain in mpg. re-read #1
3. Front wheel drives are actually balanced so that ALL the parts are right where they are supposed to be to work effectively. Lowering throws of the basic geometry.
4. with 200k miles + I would buy new shocks and struts and the random rubber parts that go with them (the rubber mounts on the springs) restore the ride comfort and dam it!!!
5. Body kits are pricey (at least for the Q - 4K) but I bet you could pick up something on ebay for 1-300 used. Now you have a factory comfort ride that wifey will LOVE you for AND a cool looking ride that is aerodynamicly tight!!!
6. Seriously look at the next size up in tire. Thats the cheapest way to improve your rear ratio.
7. GOTTA GET A GAUGE!!!!! it really is addicting. I just got home from san fran tonight. about 97 miles. I averaged 63mph and 26.5mph. Now that's not my best BUT withuot the gauge i would have done 70mph, gotten 18mpg and probably a ticket!!! I really have gotten to "LTRL" (love the right lane!!).
you talken to the guy who in the 80's had the "third most incidented driving record in Bexar County (San Antonio)".
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