Stagea Springs

[gebba54]

I'm hoping someone who got the sk group buy springs can clear something up for me.

I have read through the suspension thread and of the "STAGEA SPECIFIC" whiteline springs,

but the part no's mentioned by SK are 83159(front) and 70191(rear) and are R33 GTR, R32 GTS according to the whiteline catalogue.

Are there STAGEA specific springs or are they the same as the skyline.

cheers

g

[260tech]

I'm hoping someone who got the sk group buy springs can clear something up for me.

I have read through the suspension thread and of the "STAGEA SPECIFIC" whiteline springs,

but the part no's mentioned by SK are 83159(front) and 70191(rear) and are R33 GTR, R32 GTS according to the whiteline catalogue.

Are there STAGEA specific springs or are they the same as the skyline.

cheers

g

I'll dive in ............ target =

" Are there STAGEA specific springs? Answer is "not sure, there may well be now."

or; are they the same as the skyline. " (Yes, kinda, hard to answer ~ there are a few variations of Skylines, some bits fit.)

Hi there, it is my understanding that early on in the development of the Stagea suspension package group buy SK (after heaps of research, being a diehard Stagea owner & performance suspension engineer), came to the conclusion that the Whiteline springs you list above were a very close/ideal fit to what was needed to optimise/improve factory spring rates. It was also decided that because of low numbers of Stags a specific spring development/factory run would be costly & therefore not practical for the whole purpose of "group buys", especially when there was an already existing Whiteline product "close fit" with the desired spring rates.

So, the part numbers specified are close fit, not especially Stagea specific. Can't remember (fr or rr) now but one set needed to be installed downside up. Some owners opted to keep thier original springs, squeeze them down a bit along with adjustable Bilstein shocks with the extra circlip grooves to obtain desired ride height along with the "bang for buck" Whiteline swaybars which work a treat. Since the package was launched Eibach springs have been offered as an alternative & these are the business but more costly.

Having said all that, there may well now be "Stagea specific" Whiteline springs being produced which do not need to be inverted. Dunno.

Some background, my car was initially around 400/380 dragarse on delivery & chewing out tyres at an alarming rate, so I bought "the works" including the springs listed in your post above, a couple of years ago, couldn't get my head around inverted spring fit on my most precious possession (coulda been front spring set) so I installed my original springs back in with the grooved Bilsteins which worked fine (I wanted not so low ride height anyway for the bush driving ~ lotta carcases on the roads) springs was compressed a fair bit to achieve ride height, visions of spring clamps failing, so when Eibachs were offered as a solution I opted for them. Very happy with the results.

GW

[sleeper393]

if you can afford eibach/ bilstein setup , man you will think the thing is on rails - the best , i have the setup on my falcon cannot praise enough, eibach springs are cold drawn through a die , instead of being heated up and formed , the cold method allows less metal fatigue , thus less chance of the springs sagging over time , german technology .