Originally Posted by anotheraznguy

silkroad is great w/ the 240sx community but no one has tried them out on the z as of yet

Originally Posted by anotheraznguy

silkroad is great w/ the 240sx community but no one has tried them out on the z as of yet

Originally Posted by zillinois

As for spring rates and car handling, the way I look at it, if you've got a near 50/50 car, rear drive, same spring rate and tire size on all 4 corners, you should be driving a pretty neutral car. That's the theory anyway. Very few of the other setups have the same spring rates all the way around.

Originally Posted by Asterix

Don't confuse the rate of the spring by itself with the spring rate at the wheel. The front and rear suspension may have different mechanical advantages, making springs with the same rates front/rear have different rates at the wheel. You want the front to have a higher wheel rate than the rear so the car doesn't drive funny. Someone on the board probably knows the divider to get from spring rate to wheel rate. I've not had time to measure it yet.

Asterix

Originally Posted by Asterix

Don't confuse the rate of the spring by itself with the spring rate at the wheel. The front and rear suspension may have different mechanical advantages, making springs with the same rates front/rear have different rates at the wheel. You want the front to have a higher wheel rate than the rear so the car doesn't drive funny. Someone on the board probably knows the divider to get from spring rate to wheel rate. I've not had time to measure it yet.

Asterix

Originally Posted by Asterix

Don't confuse the rate of the spring by itself with the spring rate at the wheel. The front and rear suspension may have different mechanical advantages, making springs with the same rates front/rear have different rates at the wheel. You want the front to have a higher wheel rate than the rear so the car doesn't drive funny. Someone on the board probably knows the divider to get from spring rate to wheel rate. I've not had time to measure it yet.

Asterix

Originally Posted by 636Racer

unsprung weight and spring weight?
http://www.mirafiori.com/dave/s-terms.html

Originally Posted by Roggan

Acctually from the research ive been doing during the day the Zeals seams like the best coils you can get, best spring rate combo and I saw some very possitive feedback from owners, though i have no idea of propper price (saw some for $3000!?) and availability, where can you get them for the best price?

I guess since the Zeals have stiffer springs and are more biased towards the rear they would compensate for the sways, while adding additionally stiff sways would make the car too stuff and very "snappy".

If the Zeals are in the $3000 ballpark im clearly leaning towards ~$700 basics + $300 hotchkis sways based superior value and zillinios experience with this setup... Ive already booked up $6500+ to get a full JDM Nismo V2 bodykit with CF rear wing, so im not so keen on making it 10k so fast hehe

/Roger

Originally Posted by EnthuZ

I think I see a few typo's here that are confusing the discussion. Wheel spring RATE is very different from the unsprung WEIGHT of the spring. Most books use around 50% of the spring's weight as it's sprung/unsprung mass. My math skills are too poor to calculate the ratio's of the machine measured spring rates, to the actual wheel rates that vary with the springs distance from the center of the tire's contact patch do to the different leverages being applied. Wow, now I'm getting confused!

Originally Posted by Asterix

Someone on the board probably knows the divider to get from spring rate to wheel rate.

Originally Posted by xenonk

call up Racecomp Engineering and tell them that Keefe referred you and they should be able to help you out from there

Originally Posted by 636Racer

apparently so, as well as the AE86 guys too. A friend of mines is has it in his AE86 - featured in www.silkroad-usa.com - and has sponsored a set of RM/A8 for me to use in the G35. I just need time to install them. I'll post pics of them tomorrow.

Originally Posted by MoodDude

I agree with the Tein and Hotchkis performance for the money. Yet, I have the Tein Flex with EDFC. EDFC makes it really easy to change from road to track with one touch of the button. For oversteer, look at your tires, our cars come set up for understeer. Just install same size wheels and tires all the way around and drive w/o your VDC on!

If you go with Hotchkis, look at the thread on this board for the shaft collar fix.

Do you have to race in the Snow in Sweden?

Originally Posted by goo$e

liar.

Originally Posted by tw8715

not to highjack thread lol but whats the shaft collar fix? How to do?!