Vehicle Suspension Upgrades And Feedback

[vetter2769]

As per the title, what suspension do you use in your car?

or what suspension have you had experience with?

how much did you pay for it? brand new/second hand?

easy to adjust?

and what settings are you using?

also reasons for buying e.g. stance/practicality

I'll kick it off -

In my old 180sx I bought second hand stock suspension with nismo springs, it lowered the car by 60mm and it handled slightly better.

reason for buying was my old shocks where leaking, cost me $200.

My R34 has stock suspension, and its really showing its age.

[75coupe]

What are you using the car for?

Daily, track, bit of both?

[Deza3000]

Im using HKS hypermax pillowball strutmount coilovers. Using it on the street, a little noisy but handles awesome.

Dampen settings on the front are 50%, rears are turned up to their stiffest settings (due to the occasional passengers/daily driving occurrences) .

[chiksluvit]

bilsteins and tein medium springs, it lowered the front quite substaintially on current and previous r33 for some reason, even though it wasnt meant to do that

Had to raise it by 20mm from the standard bilstein groove to get to the acceptable level

have GTR rear sway bar and standard front sway bar, ok for street

had whiteline 27mm front sway bar and 24 adjustable rears, found them to be a bit too stiff for street use, would be pretty good on track though i thought

and get the bushes replaced, upper control arm and caster arm bushes are usually ripped by now, don't forget the tie rods too

handles well for a street car, good for street and just casual track days

[GTSBoy]

SK custom Bilsteins and R32 GTR Whiteline springs (in R32 GTSt). Springs are 5.x and 4.x kg/mm or thereabouts.

24mm adjustable bars at both ends, set hard at front, soft at rear (which is still a very big addition of roll stiffness at the rear).

Rose jointed Tein caster arms at the front.

Adjustable poly camber bushes both ends.

Non-HICAS subframe and full HICAS delete. New hard rubber subframe bushes and diff bushes. Am considering locking up the subframe bushes again with at least pineaples, if not alloy collars.

Ride height bang on legal minimum and also therefore bang on SK recommendations for best performance (about 355 and 345mm).

Very light 17x8 wheels (RPF1). 235/45 tyres of the sort that rarely last more than 10000 kays.

Sensible sporty wheel alignment. Set up for being effective wthout causing foolish amounts of camber wear. Caster rods adjusted to provide some benefit but not cause the front suspension to bind up too much during bump movement.

No strut braces. Can't easily fit one over the top of a Neo conversion anyway and don't want one that doesn't also tie to the firewall.

Bilsteins soak up the bumps like a $5k mattress. Car turns in like stink, generates very large amounts of cornering grip. Is adjustable throughout corners via the wheel or the throttle. What's not to like?

Edited September 7, 2014 by GTSBoy

[NYTSKY]

^^^^Im selling these and similar kits if anyone is interested.