Are you guys aware of any aftermarket springs that retain stock ride height and work well with the stock shocks? This 350z I'm working on has Eibach Sportline lowered springs, but the body kit has too low ground clearance...so if we can raise it 1-2 inches with some springs, that would great!

 

All aftermarket spring drop the Z. Your best bet is to get a set that offer the smallest drop or try to get a set of coilovers that can maintain stock ride height.

 

IIRC, the springs with the least amount of drop are the hotchkis springs, but even then the drop is 1/2"-9/16" lower than stock. On the cheap, best bet to raise car is to buy some used stock springs on here.

 

I have some stock springs I can sell you

 

Tein H-Techs (.3F, .2R) lower the least, Swift (.8F, .6R) and Hotchkis (.6F, .75R) and about the same but swap F/R bias.

In my experience Hotchkis were not a good match for the factory shocks (04.5) They might work better with the 1st gen shocks.

 

Eiback Proline springs are only about .7 inch drop as well..

Eibach sportline are generally a very very large drop.

 

Thanks for your recommendations guys, I'm currently shopping for some Tein H-Tech springs .

 

The tech reported to me that the front eibach sportline spring was actually taller than the tein h-tech front spring and had about ~4 more coils. I thought the h-tech's were supposed to give taller ride height than the Eibach sportline springs?

 

Swifts springs are what I'm running. Couldn't be any happier.

 

I would just source some 04.5 and newer revised rate springs.

 

if anyone is willing to sell/ship revised springs pm me please.

 

I told the techs to install the springs regardless of the fact that they appeared to be the same height when compared side-by-side in uncompressed form.

It just made sense to me that the progressive springs would compress more than the linear spring-rated Teins. Much to my comfort, the spring upgrade work and the car has a higher ride height as well as being much more comfortable to get in/out of the car. Thank you guys for your help!