Mudchicken

I don't want to lower my Z a crazy amount. I am looking for a little bit more of an aggressive stance. Yes I have searched and no I didn't find anything specific for the 06+.

I wanted to pull the trigger on Hotchkis and Koni Yellows and front and rear sways but have found that the rear spring rates are less on the Hotchkis than the stock 06. My question is will this affect the way the Z handles in a bad way? The last thing I want to do is go backwards. If I do this I want it to handle much better than factory. This is not my daily and I would love to get to the track at some point possibly. Thanks in advance!!

Mudchicken

Anyone offer up some help on this?

MicVelo

You'll be very happy with the combination. One of the things one shouldn't do is to necessarily compare the spring rates. Its a guideline, yes, but there's more to it than just how stiff the springs are (or aren't.)

Hotchkis (along with Eibach, Tein, the big players, etc.), to set them slightly apart from the generics, actually engineer and test their setups. Yes, it's possible that with the way they've set up their front springs, a slight drop in rate on the rear was needed to take out any tail happiness by reducing rear roll stiffness. (Just speculating, but were I running their test program, this wouldn't be out of the question.)

Combine this spring set with a set of their adjustable bars and you've got a pretty competent street/track setup. Enough to handle anything on the street and the needed adjustability at the shocks and bars to tune for track type and conditions.

Hard to go wrong with this combination. FWIW, I run this setup but with Eibach ProKit springs. Pretty close in function and form.

Mudchicken

Thanks for the info. I have been digging some more and think I may do RSR Springs with koni sports and Hotchkis sways front and rear. I guess I'll have to just give it a shot and see what I think.

terrasmak

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S tech
RSR
swift

No particular order , but one of them would be my pick.

MicVelo

Sure, heard good things about the RSR.

Like I said....

I don't have specific experience with the RSR set but if terrasmak likes 'em (along with the Tein S and Spec-R-which I installed on my son's car with Bilsteins), why not?

Springs - despite the engineering that goes into a good set - are the least sophisticated - and therefore least nit-picky - component in a STREET set up. Good set of shocks to control the springs has a lot more impact, along with good alignment and balancing out roll stiffness to suit your driving habits.