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Old Mar 30, 2006 | 06:19 AM
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Here is a picture before I installed the super low coilovers! I will take some more pics of it about 1" lower later on this week. The fronts are rubbing the inner fender liner like crazy.

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Old Mar 30, 2006 | 07:48 AM
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My NEW top of fender to ground measurements are now 24 1/8" F and 24 5/8" R!!! A bit too low up front.
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Old Apr 28, 2006 | 03:50 PM
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hey, just wondering. do you have to take off the rear coilover to adjust it?
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Old Apr 28, 2006 | 06:18 PM
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I am going to have these shipped to me to do a track day on them, and compare them to the other brands we have tried. Can't wait to get them.....I will call you soon Ray
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Old Apr 30, 2006 | 09:54 AM
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Originally Posted by 636Racer
JIC FLA2 arent exactly the best coilovers on the market either. A good friend of mines had them on his FD3S for about a year and a half before they started to crap out, the valving became lofty and because of the spring rates, the car became really bouncy. A better comparison would be against the Tein Flex (Although I dont think the Flex is any better or worse than the FLA2), KW, SilkRoad or S·w·i·f·t
does silkroad and swift makes coilovers for the Z33?
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Originally Posted by daytona350z
hey, just wondering. do you have to take off the rear coilover to adjust it?
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Old May 24, 2006 | 07:47 AM
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silk road makes coilovers for the Z.. as far as I know swift just makes springs for select brand coilovers, Zeal coilovers use swift springs
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Old Jun 1, 2006 | 10:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Amiricanmade
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+2 adjusting hight and stiffness?
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Old Jun 1, 2006 | 10:39 AM
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Originally Posted by konspec
silk road makes coilovers for the Z.. as far as I know swift just makes springs for select brand coilovers, Zeal coilovers use swift springs
Swift makes their own line of coilovers too. they're pretty hardcore too, much like the zeal and silkroad coilovers.
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Old Jun 1, 2006 | 11:26 AM
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Adjusting the height is very easy and can be done in an hour or so. For the rear dampening adjustment, you have to take the coilover down to get the to adjustment ****. I have heard that they are working on a a flexible cable that will be able to reach to the coilover and should be available soon.

I was actually offered the option to have the Stance coilovers while using the Swift springs. I really like how the car rides now and upgrading the springs would make the overall price jump up, so I opted to go with the standard springs.
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I am here to give you my unbiased opinion on these Stance coilovers.
After a few hundred street driving miles and a grueling day at California Speedway's track day (put on by speedventures.net), I have come to the conclusion that for our purposes, these Stance SUS coilovers are the best overall driving comfort/ track driving shock I have ever tried on a Z or a G.

On first impression (on the street) they felt very well valved and balanced for comfort, so my instinct was telling me that they probably left allot to be desired for track use (probably being too soft), Man was I (pleasantly) wrong, These coilovers where fade free, firm, with spectacular low speed and great high speed compression and rebound characteristics. I was also shocked to see that we where able to fit (and clear) a 315/30/18 rear and a 285/30/18 front tire on this suspension without any rubbing of the inside of the tires on the suspension or coilovers (especially on the rear)

Here is a couple pics of a customers car (the guinea pig, if you will)
I was very surprised with these coilovers road and track mannerisms, and shocked the most by how well the cars ride quality was, given how little wheel travel it had and how agressive the drop on it was. Impressed to say the least.



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Old Jun 1, 2006 | 02:12 PM
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WA2GOOD, what spring rates were you running?
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[QUOTE=WA2GOOD]I am here to give you my unbiased opinion on these Stance coilovers.
After a few hundred street driving miles and a grueling day at California Speedway's track day (put on by speedventures.net), I have come to the conclusion that for our purposes, these Stance SUS coilovers are the best overall driving comfort/ track driving shock I have ever tried on a Z or a G.

On first impression (on the street) they felt very well valved and balanced for comfort, so my instinct was telling me that they probably left allot to be desired for track use (probably being too soft), Man was I (pleasantly) wrong, These coilovers where fade free, firm, with spectacular low speed and great high speed compression and rebound characteristics. I was also shocked to see that we where able to fit (and clear) a 315/30/18 rear and a 285/30/18 front tire on this suspension without any rubbing of the inside of the tires on the suspension or coilovers (especially on the rear)

a lil weird Q but, what coilover in the market right now would you say they are close to as far as street comfort and track performance? Tein Flex? Tein SD?.....
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Old Jun 1, 2006 | 02:37 PM
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wow more and more i'm getting pulled into these coilovers! btw where is the adjustment **** for the rear??? top of the strut or the bottom?
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Old Jun 1, 2006 | 03:50 PM
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adjustment **** on the top of the strut for the rear...
also they have discontinued the spring shock rear...

if you are interested give a look in the suspension section of the market place..
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Old Jun 1, 2006 | 04:12 PM
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so wouldnt that mean that we can just pop off the rear strut bar covers and adjust damping from there?
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a lil weird Q but, what coilover in the market right now would you say they are close to as far as street comfort and track performance? Tein Flex? Tein SD?.....[/QUOTE]


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Old Jun 1, 2006 | 10:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Amiricanmade
a lil weird Q but, what coilover in the market right now would you say they are close to as far as street comfort and track performance? Tein Flex? Tein SD?.....
IMO, these Stance coilovers have the ride quality better than that of stock, better than any Tein I have experienced (even with the EDFC adjusted to full soft), or even a nicer feel than the Eibach Pro kit springs with the Tokico D-Spec shock (which I like, and highly reccomend for ride comfort)
I also would put the track feel of these coilovers in the class with the Greddy, Nismo, and even JIC.

These other brands of coilovers/shocks and springs are all great in their own ways, I just am impressed with the "overall" performance and feel of these new Stance coilovers
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Old Jun 2, 2006 | 07:19 AM
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Originally Posted by anotheraznguy
also they have discontinued the spring shock rear...
So they are now only selling the separate backs (like stock) or am I confused?

Chris
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Old Jun 2, 2006 | 09:45 AM
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They are only now offering the true coilover design for the rear. I believe the spring rates are now set to 12/5.
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