i was just wondering how low can i drop my 2004 before i start running into problems regarding speed bumps botteming out and fender rolling. i would like to sit pretty low im even willig to give up some ride quality .

 

this mostly depends on tire size and wheel offset

 

Fairly low; I don't believe you can slam 7th gens like you can 5th/6th gens though. Basically, as long as you're not tucking tire (and have the right wheel offset & tire sizes) you shouldn't have much of a problem with speed bumps/rubbing. Actually, I was sitting about 4" off the ground (that's to the frame rails) in my ej1 and had no problems with speed bumps; it's all about driving technique.

 

when your scrapping, then your a touch too low.

 

^ na all depends how much your scraping

but all depends on how big your speed bumps are!!!!!!
when i had my black civic droped i scraped my mudflaps on speed bumps in my friends apartment complex but no where else.... but with my 96 silver civic i plan on going even lower so needless to say ill be making her walk to here apartment before those speed bumps.LOL but i also plan on making some skid plates to keep it from tearing up my header and oilpan....

 

in case you're interested
http://passwordjdm.com/PasswordJDM-A...P2196C325.aspx

 

ya ive seen that.. IMO LAME... i want a whole skid front plate.... not hard at all to build myself that way i protect the whole drivetrain.
that header plate is all it protects really maybe alittle of the oil pan but not enough IMO.
im going to weld up a full cage skid plate for the front end and for the rest of the car some simply square tubbing ran down both sides full length of the car since if i do grind on something the pressure will be spread out along the whole UB which shouldnt damage the UB as much as it would have done....

 

oh ok

i see, you're going to make a heavy duty all out skid plate

sounds cool, i can't wait to see some pics

 

ya well first things first... gotta paint the car before i swap my suspension back on a civic

 

Screw the skid plate... just make a full under-body panel. Throw on a front splitter and a rear diffuser and you have one heck of an aero package