Has anyone installed the H & R springs yet? If so, can you post pictures of before and after (or at least after!)? Eibach pictures are also wanted. Thanks in advance.

-Steve

 

Heh, for some reason (probably cause they're so new) I cannot find anyone who has actually installed the H&R springs either. Personally I want the 1.5" drop, but am apprehensive of the camber problems that may develop from such a drop.

 

Yeah, thats exaclty what i am concerned about. My local performance store (PAN motorsport) said they are available to order, but i wanted to see a few pictures before i do it. Maybe i will have to be the first! From the specs, they appear to drop the car a lot more than the eibachs.

 

Do you have aftermarket rims? I'm going to have 19" rims soon and will definitely need to drop the car a bit. Sounds like the HR springs drop the car another .5 inches than the Eibachs. Both are progressive springs so it may help cure bounce as some people on this forum have speculated. And at least from my experience with BMW's, Eibach usually makes a bit softer spring (sports touring type feel) than H&R does. I too would like to see pics, but hope this helps.

 

The eibachs drop the car .8"fr and 1.2"rr. The H&R drops 1.5"s frt and rr.

 

i don't have rims yet and probably wont for a while. I will eventually get them and will most likely go for the volks in 19" diameter. I remember when i lowered my talon i wasn't to happy with the eibachs because the car still had a few fingers of room in the wheel wells. Thats why i want to make sure the car sits low and can handle the 19's when i get them.

The other thing i am concerned about is this "feathering" i keep hearing about. It seems most people experience this between 4000-8000 miles (if they do at all). I only have 2000 miles and i am impatient in regard to droping my car. If my car is lowered and i start getting feathered tires in a few thousand miles from now then the dealer is just going to blame the springs for the feathering. From reading threads in the problem section here it seems that most people are getting dealers to replace their tires if the car is stock and experiences feathering.

 

Deeba,

Posts have claimed that Springs eliminate the feathering and porpoising. I have also heard that ride quality is better in general.

BTW, IMO the Eibachs drop the car enough as it is! Those who have 19s and bachs, there cars look a bit to "slammed" for me. I still might get them, but HRs are out of the question for this reason!

 

Deeba, dont be lazy. If you want pics do a forum search

Looky what I got for you by using it.

Brickyard w/ Bachs

PPW w/bachs

 

Just to note, I'm pretty sure the H&R sport springs are linear and not progressive. They are supposed to be 25-30% stiffer than OEM as opposed to Eibach's 15-20%. I too am interested and called H&R some time ago. I hope someone gets them soon!

 

Here is the pic of Eibach vs stock spring. Notice how the Eibach are progressive...

 

Hrm, when I spoke to a major H&R Springs distributor, I asked and was told that these springs are progressive. Curious, where'd you hear they were linear?

 

I have asked about HR's OE Sports, whch have a minimal drop, if they are progressive, I am interested since I don't plan to add new wheels and tires. I also want as close to stock height as possible. I've already scraped a couple of times. This car has a stock ride height of 4.7", I'm not interested in scraping even more.

 

I have not seen them, but when I called H&R, they said the sport springs are linear. Paul at Avalon Racing told me the same. The Eibachs have been out for quite a while, I know they are progressive.

 

i have SPRINT lowering springs on my car (1.8 inches on all 4 corners) and have had 0 problems with camber issues. i took the car in for an allignment to both sears auto and to the nissan dealer. both of them ran the tests and told me that the car is still within the correct specs (neither of them charged me for the tests cause they didn't have to change anything...that was a big plus!!). i still have the printout from the tests as well. camber was fine, allignment was fine, caster was fine...etc. so, i don't know how all these people are having such issues...i dropped it 1.8 inches and was still alligned and correct in all the specs! i have pics posted on this forum. but, i will take pics from more angles and show you that it's still fine (pics might be here in a few days...heading to paris in a few hours and won't be back till monday).

djk

 

Can you post the printout data, please? Thanks.

 

I found these sprint springs for the 350z on ebay. 1.75" drop

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...tem=2416350562

 

I just called my local motorsport company to talk abou the h&r's and they suggested i wait for 2 new sets comming out. The guy is asian and speaks broken english but i belive he said rsr springs and nabe springs. I am going down there today so i will get the exact names later. He said both new spring sets will be ariving within 3 weeks and according to him they are better than the eibach and the H & R. Just wanted to share this with ya'll.

Lates

 

Get an alignment now. Many of new Zs were delivered with the alignment wrong, a shipping problem, it appears. Do not continue to drive w/o one. Get another if you drop your car and put on new wheels and tires. Be proactive, don't wait for somthing to go wrong.