NG15

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alright i installed my hotchkis springs today and then gave her a bath here are how she sits now.


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back wheel

front wheel

Nexx

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it'll drop a bit more once it settled. loved my hotchkis spings when i had them.

JCITY

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Looks good!
What size are your rear tires?
IMO,with that wide a wheel(looks like about 11"),I'd have gone with
a bit wider tire...if its a 35,gone to a 30 with more rubber&give you
the correct height.

dkmesa350z

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Love the VMRs. I like the way my Z sits with Hotchkis after cutting the rear spring perches half an inch.

GraysZ

Looks good!

Flo-ridaZ33

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Looks good

white boy

Looks good

terrasmak

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Very nice, stock shocks? If so, they are wasted or close to.

Kingeddie

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Need to go lower!!!! Lol looks a little better.

NG15

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thanks everyone

lol well i just put them on today i assuming within next week or so once they settle they should be lower

SirSpeedyZ

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looks good

hellsoldiers08

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hmm how much did your springs suppose to lower the car? sense you doing the finger thing for showing how much gap(i do the same thing) mine are suppose to be a .5 all a around but i can only do 1 finger in the the rear with some a little wiggel room.

Robert_K

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Everyone those springs still need to settle. And the stock shocks are fine. I've been running the Hotchkis TVS kit on my stock shocks since '05 without any problems.

Car looks good!

Czarrr

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Moar low!

NG15

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Thanks everyone it is getting a lot lower can only get one finger in front and barely 2 in the back it slowly settling

terrasmak

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Actually your shocks are trash and you just don't know it. Unless your car sits in the garage and never moves.

The stock shocks have a usable life of about 60k miles, that with stock springs. Lowering springs will reduce the life of the shock quickly. Most people don't know their shocks are trash untill they are completely wasted.

ronn1

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Springs (good ones) should never *settle*. Whenever you jack up the car and then put it down..after the cars moves a little it should *settle* down. But that's not the same thing as having the springs *settle*.
Quality springs have a set rating from the factory and that should remain constant. I have nismo S tune suspension (lowers .6') and it never settled more. Having said this it's possible for other components to *settle* in with things changing a bit. read this post I found:

http://www.cb7tuner.com/vbb/showpost...7&postcount=11

Springs shouldn't 'settle', which isn't to say none will. When you installed the new springs and they seemed a bit high so you 'bounced' the car and they seemed to lower a tad, it might just be because of internal friction in the dampers, especially if the dampers are fairly new??

Something to consider as a (remote?) possibility, when you fit new springs they may not seat perfectly in the upper spring seat on the old rubber pad (which will be 'bedded in' to the exact shape of the old spring tops). After a while the pad may 'squash' slightly to accomodate the shape of the new spring?

Or, the pad may be in a rotationally different position on the new springs vs the old springs, which might mean that a thicker 'unsquashed' part of the pad that previously sat in the gap at the very end of the old spring is now supporting some actual part of the new spring, so the car sits slightly higher until the 'unsquashed' bit of pad sqashes down?

rotchcrocket04

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Looks good

VMRWheels

Looking really good!

bmccann101

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agreed nine million times over..

shocks going bad is the ULTIMATE frog in hotwater situation.

Id certainly never argue w an armed service member, but id certainly respect them enough to give them back good advice.. and the good advice here is get some new shocks my man. And enjoy the huge difference youll feel.