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Hello All,

Big noob here and first post, I bought a r34 25 gtt and the front suspension is a HKS hiper-d (The ones seen below on the right)maxresdefault.jpg

 

 My rear suspension now is completely stuffed, and I'm looking to replace the rears with the same HKS Hiper-D. I found two posts on facebook selling similar (the same?) HKS purple coilovers.

One of them is marked as a HKS drag coilover s13/180sx and looks like the middle pair seen below:

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and the other one is advertised as the R33 gtst suspension and looks like the one on the outside.

Which one should I buy? would the s13/180sx work on my car? also, my friend said that maybe my car has the rear suspension placed on the front by accident. Is that possible?

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R34 GTT uses a fork type rear which is the same as a R33 GTR

S13 gear won't work no, and no you cannot (realistically) put the Fronts on the rear (or the other way around) the rear shocks are like twice as long as the rears - I've posted a photo of this in my build thread
 

 

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