2007 Denali AWD Lowering Advise

[Blue Rock]

That’s going to look good. Can’t wait to see pics.

 

[superstarsteveo]

I went with the 3/4 Street Edge Lowering kit. The kit was actually a 4/4 lowering kit if I didn’t use the supplied 1” spacers for the front.

Got the kit put on today, this was the result..

3/4 lowering kit, 26” GMC Snowflakes w/295’s

 

[superstarsteveo]

It took A LOT of inner fender plastic trimming to accommodate the 26’s on the AWD Denali. I don’t know if that’s the case on 2wd’s or 4wd’s.

I second guessed myself 1000 times if I wanted to make the jump to 26’s, I had 24’s on my 06 Lowered Escalade prior to the Yukon. The 26’s are YUGE! Seriously they are big and I’m glad I went with them.

 

[Big Mama]

Looks great I’m not usually a fan of 26’s but they look perfect filling your wheel well

 

[Blue Rock]

Looks awesome man

It took A LOT of inner fender plastic trimming to accommodate the 26’s on the AWD Denali. I don’t know if that’s the case on 2wd’s or 4wd’s.

I second guessed myself 1000 times if I wanted to make the jump to 26’s, I had 24’s on my 06 Lowered Escalade prior to the Yukon. The 26’s are YUGE! Seriously they are big and I’m glad I went with them.

 

[superstarsteveo]

Thank you for the compliments..

So this morning I did the alignment and I prob came up with 3000 new 4 letter words.

I would advise anyone considering 26’s to do a 2/3 drop maximum esp if you’re planning on any daily driving.

On the alignment rack I added a ton of camber and got the wheel pretty well upright, which lead to clearance problems... I’ll come back to this..

When it came to the caster I had to pull the wheel towards the front of the truck to even it out in the wheel well which gave me way better turning radius.

Back to that camber I ended up adding a 1/2” billet spacer on top of the strut hat to make the wheel clear without ripping off the inner fender plastic. Thank god we have a CNC Machine that I could mill the spacer or else I would have to do some serious improvising to accommodate the 26’s.

For a novice reading this thread and considering lowering your Yukon/Tahoe or Escalade... a big thing to consider in calculating your inches of drop, is the inches of wheel and tire your adding above stock.

Example the factory 20 w/tire is like 31.9” total diameter. The 295 is like 33” and change which the added circumference will make a difference in the suspension mods

 

[Blue Rock]

I was wondering if you had done the alignment after the pics because it looked like quite a bit of camber on the front. I love the 4/6 drop on 26s though.

 

[Fosscore]

Sweet stance but yes those 26s are like stuffing 10lbs in a 5lb sack. At least you had the means in the shop and skills to make it happen. Not a novice install at all. Post up some more shots from the quarters. Good choice on the machined snowflakes.

 

[superstarsteveo]

I was wondering if you had done the alignment after the pics because it looked like quite a bit of camber on the front. I love the 4/6 drop on 26s though.

The camber didn’t change enough to notice. Even with the billet spacer when the wheel goes up it has to have room to go. With perfect/near perfect camber it would tear off the outside of the fender.

So I left some negative camber in it, rolled the inner fender and called it a day. $500 set of Lexani tires every 2 years is a smal price to pay for that look

 

[superstarsteveo]

Sweet stance but yes those 26s are like stuffing 10lbs in a 5lb sack. At least you had the means in the shop and skills to make it happen. Not a novice install at all. Post up some more shots from the quarters. Good choice on the machined snowflakes.

I hate chrome wheels bc the first time you have to put tires on, the cheap China chrome peels right off... black wheels are cool, but I was going for a pretty stock look.

I wanted someone to see it and kind of go wtf they made Yukon’s like that? Lol..