Coilover Help Please

[donkey]

hey all,

need a little advice please, r33 gtr, with standard suspension. i want to lower the car about 1-1 1/2inch. the car is used on the street mainly, so i dont want rock hard suspension, i dont do much track work, so amazing handling isnt what i need. my problem is i dont want to lower with lowered springs because still want to maintain traction when drag racing (prob about 2-3 times a year) so would i be right in saying getting adjustable shocks? so i can have it low, but a soft setting and raise it up for drag racing, have about odd 380rwkw.....cheers for any help

[Sydneykid]

What I would do (and have done several times) is to use Bilstein shocks with the standard springs. Using the additional circlip grooves in the Group Buy Bilsteins you can lower the car to the ride height you mentioned. You get the height plus a comfortable (still sporty) ride and greatly improved handling from the superior shocks. For drag racing you don't have to raise the car up, it's completely unneccesary. If you wanted the absolute maximum then you might want to adjust off some camber, but that's a simple job to do while you have the car jacked up to change the tyres at the drags. If you aren't changing tyres, then you needed bother changing the camber.

If you wanted to improve the handling even more, then swaybars are the go. They are easily the best handling upgrade value for money and they won't adversely affect the drag racing.

Cheers

Gary

[donkey]

hey there, thanks heaps for the advice.......

cheers robbie