New pics, Slammed beyond belief.

[RBS14]

just took new pics. Lowered the fronts another inch, they're sitting at 575mm now. (top of front fender arch to ground.) Go measure it on your car to get an idea of how low it is. haha front lip is 3 of my skinny ass fingers off the ground.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/ScooterS14/wheels/lowness003.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/ScooterS14/wheels/lowness002.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/ScooterS14/wheels/lowness005.jpg

Damn I love it!

[azn_romeox]

Love how it looks, it'll be cool for a few days until u realize you can't do anything. Been there and done it. Hahahah. Love slammed cars though. You'll regret it once you've highcentered one too many times. Enjoy while you can =)
ronmastas

[Yoshi]

Now you pray that there are no speed bumps preventing u from getting out of that parking lot :P heheee

[Ian]

yeah, i'd like to see how long your exhaust lasts

[Ritz S14]

Hm.. When I flip my front tires around on my 18x10s.. I'll be doing the same thing. :D

[ootranceformeroo]

Niiiice scott! new gr6's eh? looks freakin dope but have fun...lol

whend you get those rear wheels? or is that photoshopped?

[Nan Desu Ka?!]

... thats cool.. if your parked or MAYBE at the track. daily driving is gonna be a BITCH though. hell im on stock suspention and sometimes i scrape my exhuast when driving in san frisco. (stupid driveways...) i'd hate to see what i would do to my lip/exhaust if i was THAT low. not to mention my fenders and the wiring underneath them. car looks mean standing still though man.

[infinitexsound]

definetly a scraper...

[mike13]

let us know when you raise it back up :rofl:

[RBS14]

Daniel: got the GR6's from Jerry. The rear wheels are borrowed from a friend. If you check my other thread, it has some other pics of them. I started this thread tho cause the other one was getting random and it was on it's second page.

I'm gonna leave it this low for now. Front lip scrapes everywhere, but nothing else. It's going to the track like this tho. I'll get action shots soon.

[sw20>>s14]

hasnt that poor lip been through enough? looks nice

[Drunk Bastard]

WOW that is extremely low. :tweak: i love it. so how much lower can the gr6's go compared to the HE's?? I have the HE's on my car right now, and I have them at about 90% maxed out lowness...and I still want some more.

[samms95s14se]

Yea driving up and down driveways will scap for sure! Just take them all at angles but you will still probably scrap.

[RBS14]

gr6's go about 2" lower in the front without any preload and without any preload the rears go about 3 1/2" lower than the HE's. Everything is better about the GR6's.

[Siizzzoooo]

lol thats awesome

[luisgonz]

That car so hot now,Iam love with your car dude.Use 2x4 to raise it back up stacked next to each other like a stair way to stock gay height :ghey:

[MakotoS13]

i think i'm the only one on this board that does not like the look of a slammed car unless its a race car.

[Drunk Bastard]

gr6's go about 2" lower in the front without any preload and without any preload the rears go about 3 1/2" lower than the HE's. Everything is better about the GR6's.

wow, i didnt realize that you could drop em THAT much. crazy. I'm sure you have specs and reviews in other posts about them, but can you give us a quick review of how you like em and what the spring rates are?
thanks


Joe :wavey: :wavey:

[SR240DET]

what happend to your front turn signals?

[sw20>>s14]

i think i'm the only one on this board that does not like the look of a slammed car unless its a race car.

i love super slammed cars...as long as its not mine and i dont have to deal with it. its like infactuation with a pornstar. you look and get excited :w00t: , but in reality, you dont want to take her home...well, most of the time :D

gr6's go about 2" lower in the front without any preload and without any preload the rears go about 3 1/2" lower than the HE's. Everything is better about the GR6's.

so wait. the gr6s have an estimated 4.5" +/- .5 up front and 6.0" +/- .5 in the rear?

[RBS14]

Quick review of the GR6's:

9/7 springrates with 6 levels of dampening adjustability. Messed around with the dampening a bit, very precise and crisper than the HE's. HE's were sloppy from start to finish, where as these are much better build quality from what I can see/feel. I've got them on full soft for the street, but full stiff is ridiculous. More than enough for me for any track setting. Spring preload and height adjustability are independent. However, on both the front and rear, the height adjustability runs out when it hits the lower spring perch collar. Therefore, more preload will allow you to go even lower. With my car in the pics above, I still have another 1 1/2" of height adjustability in the front and about 2" in the rear. Basically, they go low enough for ANYONE's needs. Frame rails would literally be 1" off the ground fully slammed. Hell, if I slammed the fronts all the way, my front lip would be sitting ON the ground. Literally. Ride quality is great, stiffer than the HE's obviously, but not too much. Ride quality is nicer than the HE's tho, dispite the stiffer springrates. Even my G/F agrees. If I had it all to do over again, I wouldn't have thought twice about getting the HE's. GR6's all the way. Well worht the extra few hundered $$.

Don't get me wrong, the HE's served me great, and are a good entry coilover, but the GR6's pick up the slack in all the areas the HE's fall short.


Front turn signals were relocated to the corner lights. A little dremel work, epoxy and bam! More air cooling for brakes and tires. Turn signal wires are long enough too, no need to lengthen.

[Jdotsturn]

i dont like tucking the tires on cars, in my opinion it doesnt look clean. I like the drop where the tire fits perfectly inside the wheel well no tuckin, now thats sexy

[kazuo]

Looks good Scotty.

But I think it needs some aero!

[Touring240]

love the old skool weds on the back!

[RBS14]

Sorry, not Weds. I wish. They're Gartmaier Mainbachs.

[iMAGE976]

Quick review of the GR6's:

9/7 springrates with 6 levels of dampening adjustability. Messed around with the dampening a bit, very precise and crisper than the HE's. HE's were sloppy from start to finish, where as these are much better build quality from what I can see/feel. I've got them on full soft for the street, but full stiff is ridiculous. More than enough for me for any track setting. Spring preload and height adjustability are independent. However, on both the front and rear, the height adjustability runs out when it hits the lower spring perch collar. Therefore, more preload will allow you to go even lower. With my car in the pics above, I still have another 1 1/2" of height adjustability in the front and about 2" in the rear. Basically, they go low enough for ANYONE's needs. Frame rails would literally be 1" off the ground fully slammed. Hell, if I slammed the fronts all the way, my front lip would be sitting ON the ground. Literally. Ride quality is great, stiffer than the HE's obviously, but not too much. Ride quality is nicer than the HE's tho, dispite the stiffer springrates. Even my G/F agrees. If I had it all to do over again, I wouldn't have thought twice about getting the HE's. GR6's all the way. Well worht the extra few hundered $$.

Don't get me wrong, the HE's served me great, and are a good entry coilover, but the GR6's pick up the slack in all the areas the HE's fall short.


Front turn signals were relocated to the corner lights. A little dremel work, epoxy and bam! More air cooling for brakes and tires. Turn signal wires are long enough too, no need to lengthen.

Nice write up...this is great motivation to save up sum more cash and sell the old coilovers. :bigok:

[Maeda]

Scott. I know you like the way it looks but I have just one question for you.

Can you fit your toes underneath the bumper? I sure looks like you can to me, so therefor it's not low enough. =).

[revat619]

Scott, you my friend are insane! i dunno how you drive it like that everywhere, but if you can, then more power to ya! :bigok:

[RBS14]

haha John have you been talking to that little devil on my right shoulder? You guys are saying the same thing.... haha but It's low enough for me. Once I get my other FN's on the rears, it'll stop rubbing and I can thrash it and see if it needs to go up or down. As it settles, it keeps getting lower, I stopped by Speed Alliance today after work and I couldn't fit my shoe under my front lip. It's ridiculous. As long as I can still drive the shit out of my car at this height I'll leave it. If I have to drive like a pussy everywhere, I'll raise it up a tad.

[TurDz]

i think i'm the only one on this board that does not like the look of a slammed car unless its a race car.

you're not.

tucking isn't in my taste at all. but whatever though...as long as you like it, good work.

[s13gonwild]

have fun when you blow your coilovers :) looks good tho

[NemeGuero]

not to thread jack or anything but how do they (GR6) compare to silk roads?

[sideviewcivic]

you my friend qualify for BH status. beat that lip to shit. give it some hard loving before it dies and goes to heaven. action shots will be very nice at that lack of ground clearance. Won't you have to raise the car up a bit with the coilovers settling more. Gimme measurements of the the ground to your fender. Notch it for me pleeez......

[drift into a curb]

have fun when you blow your coilovers :) looks good tho

Why would he blow his coilovers?

[s13panda2004]

I wouldn't be able to survive like that.. I simply can't..

Your car looks freakin' awesome, but, it's too much.. too low..

[Flybert]

have fun when you blow your coilovers :) looks good tho

Do you even know how fully adjustable coilovers work? If you don't know what you are talking about, don't say anything cuz people who know what's up will think you are a dumbass. The GR6 are designed to lower the car insanely low without sacrificing stroke. Tanabe DD and Zeal super function are the same way.

Scott, I am freaking jealous and I have n1 PRO. Seeing your car, big bad BH, and aaron makes me wanna sell them so I can lower the rear more without sacrificing stroke. I didn't know the GR6 were so pimp. Now get your ass out to the track. Are you going this weekend?

[drift into a curb]

Flybert, you have n1 pros on an s13 right? I have them on an s14 and haven't had any problems tucking like that with preload adjusted. Not as low, but I made sure to cover the tire size numbers. You should be able to go pretty darn low. Just wondering anyway.

[Flybert]

In the front if I pull the lower locking collar out and bottom out the spring perch, I can get another 1/2" but I'd prefer to have the option of having a whole extra inch when I want the car to look gangster. As for the rears, I'd like to go another 1/2" to 1" lower but they are as low as they can go without dropping the lower spring perch and sacrificing stroke. I think I'm just gonna bite the bullet and sacrifice the 1/2" of stroke for the sake of looking good. I pretty much only like 215/45/17 and 235/40/17. Anything with a thicker sidewall isn't cool in my book. I like stiff sidewalls and keeping the car as low as possible. Right now, I run 215 cuz I don't have much power. I'd like to run 235's all around eventually.


For the front, I could try to get some shorter springs from apexi or cut down the top part of the section that bolts to the spindle. That would solve that problem. For the rear, I'm going to take apart the rears and disassemble it into it's individual components. I'm hoping that at the bottom part of the shock there is 1/2" of metal that I could cut off so the shock can go deeper into the housing. Another way would be to find a shorter shock shaft, that way you can bring the whole spring assembly down. If I can figure out a way to shorten the shaft, I'll do it. I just don't want to damage it and make it unrepairable.

All these low coilovers make me think about selling my coilovers until I realize I have n1 PRO and should be shot for thinking about it.

http://www.team-legacy.org/GhostVersion/Media_Section/Chris/Veilside_Flush.jpg
http://www.team-legacy.org/GhostVersion/Media_Section/Chris/Veilside_Front.jpg
http://www.team-legacy.org/GhostVersion/Media_Section/Chris/Veilside_Profile.jpg
http://www.team-legacy.org/GhostVersion/Media_Section/Chris/Veilside_Rear1.jpg

[Blues13]

Eh, the S14 is too low for my tastes.. but fun to look at nonetheless. It looks like a lowrider with airbag suspension thats been parked especially with those rear wheels.

[Ian]

oh that definately needs to go lower in the front(flybert)

[mr_240sx]

looks good man, dont know how the roads are in cali, but i know in ontario, canada, a car that low can get around fairly easy!!

[s14srpilot]

just took new pics. Lowered the fronts another inch, they're sitting at 575mm now. (top of front fender arch to ground.) Go measure it on your car to get an idea of how low it is. haha front lip is 3 of my skinny ass fingers off the ground.

Damn I love it!

Wow your car almost looks like Brian's from pg, turn signals (or lack thereof) and all! His lip is like 1" off the ground, he has fno1rc's and weds wheels (fn's are in the back though and he has a different model of weds wheels) Your car will look like a hovercraft to anyone driving in front of you. Pretty cool. Be prepared for bent frame rails haha. Dirt drops at Willow Springs are pretty rad too according to what Brian tells me...

http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/2/web/314000-314999/314750_55.jpghttp://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/2/web/314000-314999/314750_85.jpg

[Macadoshus]

I got my S2000 that low. The 240 will be that low. Just glad I don't daily drive either of them cause it is a pain in the ass trying to drive anywhere that low, especially with the monster potholes they have out here. Good luck, looks sick.

[Ian]

i'm assuming they build driveway entrances differently on the west coast cuz i scrape like shit pulling into my driveway...and i'm not tlakin front lip, i'm scraping my rocker panel on the ground

[Sil Beer S13]

The car looks great.

All of you talking ish STFU.

[RBS14]

It is Big Bad BH low. He had his somewhere around 570-580mm, and mine's at 575mm. They won't blow, I'm not worried. I didn't know these coils would be this gangster either. Yes it does look almost like a lowrider, the only difference is this is gonna get driven to shit at this height. Glad yalls like it.

Yea Balcony is fun, and dirt drops are fun there.

Chris, Charlie doesn't have any spots left, but If anyone can't make it hopefully I can drive. I'm gonna be coming up anyways. See ya then.

[sLiDewAys]

definetly a scraper...



DEFINATLY a scrapper, but i think e-40 would disagree. probly categorize it as something like " SLUMPER" hey scott are u part of the side show? HAHAHAH jp. that would be fuinny if e-40 and the gang joined d1 in their mustangs and impalas:) dopeeeeee

[Fastback180]

all i have to say is...

Fucking Awesome!!! Screw everyone else...keep doing what you're doing. SLAMMED TO THE GROUND IS WHERE IT'S AT. Your ride is HOT!

[gorgasm]

look soooo hot... but i think you should just give me that lip before u mutilate it, ill take good care of it i promise :x:

[RBS14]

yea, I should probably get another one for when this one gets trashed. It's not a matter of if, just when.

[Ian]

get a trust lip afterwards :D


that would be hilarious...the lip would perpetually be on the ground

[mr_240sx]

here's an idea for you, if you take off your lip, that would allow you to lower your ride about another inch lower!!!

[sideviewcivic]

In the front if I pull the lower locking collar out and bottom out the spring perch, I can get another 1/2" but I'd prefer to have the option of having a whole extra inch when I want the car to look gangster. As for the rears, I'd like to go another 1/2" to 1" lower but they are as low as they can go without dropping the lower spring perch and sacrificing stroke. I think I'm just gonna bite the bullet and sacrifice the 1/2" of stroke for the sake of looking good. I pretty much only like 215/45/17 and 235/40/17. Anything with a thicker sidewall isn't cool in my book. I like stiff sidewalls and keeping the car as low as possible. Right now, I run 215 cuz I don't have much power. I'd like to run 235's all around eventually.


For the front, I could try to get some shorter springs from apexi or cut down the top part of the section that bolts to the spindle. That would solve that problem. For the rear, I'm going to take apart the rears and disassemble it into it's individual components. I'm hoping that at the bottom part of the shock there is 1/2" of metal that I could cut off so the shock can go deeper into the housing. Another way would be to find a shorter shock shaft, that way you can bring the whole spring assembly down. If I can figure out a way to shorten the shaft, I'll do it. I just don't want to damage it and make it unrepairable.

All these low coilovers make me think about selling my coilovers until I realize I have n1 PRO and should be shot for thinking about it.

http://www.team-legacy.org/GhostVersion/Media_Section/Chris/Veilside_Flush.jpg
http://www.team-legacy.org/GhostVersion/Media_Section/Chris/Veilside_Front.jpg
http://www.team-legacy.org/GhostVersion/Media_Section/Chris/Veilside_Profile.jpg
http://www.team-legacy.org/GhostVersion/Media_Section/Chris/Veilside_Rear1.jpg


Sil beer S13 is on N1 PROs and his shit is damn low. Covering tire numbers on his wheels too.

[HyperTek]

dam flybert, you just had to threadjack with your pictures huh!?!?! =D

[sr20dets13]

man car looks really nice at that level.. my s13 is on kts coilovers and i have it where the frame rail is about 1.5 to 2 inches off the ground lol and can go all the way down but my big difference is im on 15in rims lol so its alil easier for me... flybert beautiful car

[Inland180]

looking good!!

[S14DB]

yeah, slamed to the ground rocks... :rolleyes:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v108/S14DB/240sx/Exhaust/JointScratch.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v108/S14DB/240sx/Exhaust/ManholeRash.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v108/S14DB/240sx/Exhaust/TipScratch.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v108/S14DB/240sx/PowerBrace/Stockers.jpg
:rolleyes:

[RBS14]

when it makes the car feel like a gocart, yea it does. And it looks hot to boot so I see no probs. Like I said earlier, a properly designed/fitting exhaust doesn't scrape that much.

[Rusker]

Damn, that is low...

[Chernobyl]

looks amazing. who needs driveability when you have style?

im not kidding either, I really like it.

[ALTRNTV]

Slam it some more!! Haha

[cheez80]

dude, my exhaust is 9128439082950890x worse =P

and my car isn't even that low, either

[Maeda]

In the front if I pull the lower locking collar out and bottom out the spring perch, I can get another 1/2" but I'd prefer to have the option of having a whole extra inch when I want the car to look gangster. As for the rears, I'd like to go another 1/2" to 1" lower but they are as low as they can go without dropping the lower spring perch and sacrificing stroke. I think I'm just gonna bite the bullet and sacrifice the 1/2" of stroke for the sake of looking good. I pretty much only like 215/45/17 and 235/40/17. Anything with a thicker sidewall isn't cool in my book. I like stiff sidewalls and keeping the car as low as possible. Right now, I run 215 cuz I don't have much power. I'd like to run 235's all around eventually.


For the front, I could try to get some shorter springs from apexi or cut down the top part of the section that bolts to the spindle. That would solve that problem. For the rear, I'm going to take apart the rears and disassemble it into it's individual components. I'm hoping that at the bottom part of the shock there is 1/2" of metal that I could cut off so the shock can go deeper into the housing. Another way would be to find a shorter shock shaft, that way you can bring the whole spring assembly down. If I can figure out a way to shorten the shaft, I'll do it. I just don't want to damage it and make it unrepairable.

All these low coilovers make me think about selling my coilovers until I realize I have n1 PRO and should be shot for thinking about it.

I have the same problem -_-....
NICE WHEELS FLYBERTO!
NICE FORD DEALERSHIP SHOTS!

[RBS14]

A couple more. . .

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/ScooterS14/wheels/e5fdf6e8.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/ScooterS14/wheels/lowness010.jpg

It is finished settling and it's sitting at 570mm. bwahahahahah

[S14DB]

I'm at 600mm and wouldn't go any further. I lay frame on bad driveways.

[97DubTruck]

No bags, no switches, no fat bitches.

Looks like the front of your car has gone through some hell already.

Good luck with that.

[turbozxi]

Thats retartedid.

[RBS14]

I need to get a sticker that says "No fat chicks, or my shit will scrape!"

[Brian]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v141/yeswepromise/randoms/s14low.jpg

Child's Play.

;)

[Brian]

just meaured.




I'm at 590mm now.
:(

[Brian]

i deally i'm gonna be at 600/600 when i put my kit on.
which hopefully will be soon.

[NemeGuero]

Brian, you got any side shots?

[drift into a curb]

damn brian. cheater. i know your secret.. bumper saggin

[Brian]

damn brian. cheater. i know your secret.. bumper saggin


;) look at the picture.
Thats when it had NO sagging.
That was when i first got the car.

[JDMs13]

what do the police have to say about that shat. What kind of coilovers are they, not familiar with those numbers.

[RBS14]

Big Bad BH: those guys at signal are fucking maniacs. haha and you are too. We should start a club. Like you said on ziptied, 580mm.

Havn't had probs with cops yet *knocks on wood*

I'd go lower but with stock sways, at full counter my fender would be making love with my tire more than it already does. BH, was that pic you posted above with 205/40 on 9j? If it was, I should be able to go lower. hahaha

[Brian]

yes
205 40.

see, the problem at that height is, you hit everything.
road reflectors, anything.
you know the streets where the big trucks start to make grooves?
DO NOT drive on those.
i tell from experience!
haha well, unless you like everything under yoru car to scrape the ground like a mother.

[Dousan_PG]

haha i love your car brian when it was like that
so sexy

too bad sparking your under body on the freeway and hitting every bump in the road messes that up
i think the height it is at now is ok
could be worse
i have to measure mine i think im the same as you..minus the saggy bumper ..who did that? wtf. jackass.


scooter
this is nice
but gets old fast
even at very low its just annoying.
espeically when upgrade to FRP aero parts
you scrape ALL parts of body kit ...front sides AND rear. it sucks

[S14DB]

what do the police have to say about that shat.
One thing the cops do like down here is headlight hight. I had to bring the front up to get the headlight centers to 21" off the ground. I was at 19"

[turbozxi]

I have at least 80mm clearance in the front after posting my first comment in the thread I went for a drive managed to get into road works that were completely stuffed up heaps of car behind, and cracked my front bumper = Nismo So fucking annoyed I would hate to drive your car.

[RBS14]

Aaron, I know what ur saying. The only thing is, I'm never getting aero unless I get it thrown at me, or for dirty cheap. so, uh yea, basically never. I've got other things I want to spend my $$ on. I like the height it's at now. Kinda annoying, but that felling goes away immediately when I step out of or get into my car and see how dead sexy it is this low. mmmmm

[Dousan_PG]

when you take long trips it sucks dood
i broke my exhaust rubber hangers (all 3)
and my exhaust hanger it self on a trip up to stockon
nthing ghetto fix cant do till i can get it welded back

everytime i scrape hard i always check oil pressure gauge haha..so nervous
but handles so nice, minus the bumpsteer haha..waiting for the end links...

[RSP13-Sideways]

hahahah whattup Scott, this is Jalal...you came to my house with Luke and helped with the SR20 swap...until we figured out my T25 housing was clocked the wrong way hahahah.......

Wow I love your car and I bet it handles like a dammed go-cart! NICE! :cool:

[RBS14]

hey how's it going man? Did you get the turbo re-clocked? How you liking the tranny? You bastard, I'm so jealous.

[91CRXsiR]

looks like my car when i slammed it , then after 1 week i raised hahah

[Fastback180]

Like Danno said to me last night "obviously these guys have never been to japan before"

some of you dudes are just pussies...maybe it's because i like ghetto shit and stuffed slammed beyond belief...but when you see a real nice ass S14 rocking a sparkling paint job, and the body is scraping the ground on bumps...you gotta love it.
i guess it's just cause i like to drive my car...if my Uras bumper splits in half or the bottom "lip" if you will cracks...that shit's just gettin taped and zip-tied back and stayin the way it was.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/ScooterS14/wheels/lowness010.jpg
"Yeeeeeah so peep out my manuscript, you'll see that it's a must i drop gangster shit"

[AzNCmB]

what are the wheel specs and what kind of exhaust are you running? did you ever break an exhaust hanger or rubber hanger?

[AenjukuCar]

"Hott!!" like paris hilton........well almost

with those almost maxed out you're gonna blow your coilovers!

[RBS14]

F: 17x9 +15
R: 18x10 +19

Custom 3" exhaust with Tanabe muffler and 3" catco cat. Nope, never broken a hanger. Yet.

No, I'm not gonna blow my coils cause they still have full stroke. Search and see how dual height adjustment coils work.

[selectivebeef]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/ScooterS14/wheels/lowness010.jpg

It is finished settling and it's sitting at 570mm. bwahahahahah

http://img198.exs.cx/img198/6765/hellalow7cm.jpg

[MakotoS13]

..but when you see a real nice ass S14 rocking a sparkling paint job, and the body is scraping the ground on bumps...you gotta love it.

the hell i do. i prefer function over form if it comes down to the wire and slamming like that belongs on show cars. maybe if you redid the whole undercarriage to give more clearance it'd be cool but scrapping really just isn't kosher.

[d4vech3n]

I got the GR6 too and want to lower my car even more but my front tires already rub as it is (mostly because of the offseted wheels and my refusal to give up stock diamater) but the biggest problem with the GR6's is that stupid little tiny allen key they use to lock up the spanner perches. I went to go raise my car the other day and that tiny 5mm allen key was stripped. I haven't even adjusted them since the first week I got them back about 6 months ago. I plan on just using a bigger allen key to get it out of all 4 of them and leaving them out so i'll atleast be able to adjust them. Otherwise, they perform and look nice.

[RBS14]

Makoto: you really don't know what you are talking about dude. But that's nothing new. The car feels like it's on rails. Literally. Lower CG is always better, on a race or street car. You might not think scraping is ok, but the benefits outweigh the costs. And like I said earlier, it looks hot to boot.

Yea, those little allen keys aren't for a shit. I don't have any of them. Tighten the collars down properly and you don't need those little allens.

[Ian]

i dont quite understand how you drive around that low...when i pull into my driveway, i scrape my rocker panels...and my car is a good 2" higher then yours

[Ian]

also, how does your tire clear the wiring harness? is it relocated?


i just dont see how this works...

[d4vech3n]

I thought they would be at recommended height when they came out of the box. I couldn't have been any more wrong but my rear was slammed and I drove about 10 miles with that before I readjusted it because it was dark, cold, and I was lazy.

Heres the night I put them on
http://www.brian-chen.com/dave/DSC03029x.jpg

Even at that setting, It road smooth, went over potholes and felt just as it does when I go over them at my current height.


Heres how it sits now though. Very comfortably, I'm able to get up most driveway entrances and speed bumps.
http://www.brian-chen.com/dave/DSC04373x.jpg

My front tires just barley rub at full lock both ways. I adjusted the caster and still have the same problem. That has been the biggest reason I haven't slammed it even more and I dont even have tie rods with spacers. Maybe i'll go lower profile but I really like how the car looks on stock diameter wheels. Hows the rub at full lock with yours?

[RBS14]

I dunno how to describe how it works. It just does. I take everything at the shallowest angle possible. However, I just took the 18's off, put the 17's back on, and with the 205/40's my exhaust is literally 1 finger off the ground. Don't know what I'm gonna do about it, but no bueno how it is now. Guess I'm gonna have to raise the rear until I figure out another option.

Wiring harness is just pulled out of the wheel well area, and ziptied on the little seam that is on the side of the frame above the outside of the wheel well. So it's out of the way, but nothing crazy like run inside the engine bay.

Edit: I just went out and measured the height of the rear of my car. 550mm. Now I know why my exhaust is 1 finger off the ground. Gonna have to raise it up a little. Took it for a little drive and, well you can imagine.

[Fastback180]

Makoto: you really don't know what you are talking about dude.


No...

He doesn't


I was totally talking about cars with dope body work and paint job, getting their bumpers ripped off by the zip-ties and tape on that shit...the fiberglass is all broken and frayed on the bottom of the bumper.

:Ownedd:

[hotrodv]

Damn !!! how hot is a car slammed like the couple in the pics before..
Mine was 90mm on front and 70mm on back of the sideskirt..but I've change setup 'cause I hit a bumper that is just in front of my house, only way to go home.. :hitit:
Now is about 100mm front and 80back..but you have never seen hour street..one time I've hit the side in a normal corner in a normal street..shitty road..

[mr_240sx]

hey guys, instead of starting up a new thread and clogging up the forum....i decided i would post it inthis thread.


so anyways i ve had my gr-6's installed since end of july. anyways ive had some MAF troubles ( sucked up water through my filter) so ive finally fixed it and ive been driving my car daily since last saturday! :rawk: Anyways as we speak, the top of my fender to the ground is 52inches from the ground ( not sure in mm). Anyways i was just wondering if its normal for the gr 6's to make noise when you get out of entrances at low speeds and hit small bumps at low speeds and also when you turn you wheel. Ive heard through the grape vines that pillow ball mounts tend to be noisy. is this true? and would it be the pillow ball mounts making that noise? ive checked all the nuts and bolts and everythings seems to be tight! Anyways, id greatly appreciate it if the owners of gr 6's could give me some feed back.

[sideview_180sx]

hey guys, instead of starting up a new thread and clogging up the forum....i decided i would post it inthis thread.


so anyways i ve had my gr-6's installed since end of july. anyways ive had some MAF troubles ( sucked up water through my filter) so ive finally fixed it and ive been driving my car daily since last saturday! :rawk: Anyways as we speak, the top of my fender to the ground is 52inches from the ground ( not sure in mm). Anyways i was just wondering if its normal for the gr 6's to make noise when you get out of entrances at low speeds and hit small bumps at low speeds and also when you turn you wheel. Ive heard through the grape vines that pillow ball mounts tend to be noisy. is this true? and would it be the pillow ball mounts making that noise? ive checked all the nuts and bolts and everythings seems to be tight! Anyways, id greatly appreciate it if the owners of gr 6's could give me some feed back.

Pillowballs don't make noise unless they clunk. If they clunk there junk. I was considering cutting the frame rails and useing 1/4" thick steel plates and weld them directly where the OE frame rails run under the car. Better ground clearance on the car, fuk the exhaust, $200 SPL style so you don't cringe when it gets knocked off.

[mr_240sx]

Pillowballs don't make noise unless they clunk. If they clunk there junk. I was considering cutting the frame rails and useing 1/4" thick steel plates and weld them directly where the OE frame rails run under the car. Better ground clearance on the car, fuk the exhaust, $200 SPL style so you don't cringe when it gets knocked off.

ummm.......so any idea what could be making the noise?

[chmercer]

52 inches from fender to ground, shits TIGHT. i wish my car was 5 feet off the ground.

you check the top nuts on the coilovers? and are you low enough to where you are drooping the spring?

[mr_240sx]

52 inches from fender to ground, shits TIGHT. i wish my car was 5 feet off the ground.

you check the top nuts on the coilovers? and are you low enough to where you are drooping the spring?
wait a minute..... 52 inches?!?!?! does that sound right hehheheh maybe i screwed that number up..... anyways i got 18's and i cant fit my index finger between the tire and the fender!

and the top nuts are tight!

[Jcb890]

52 inches is 4' 4"

[mr_240sx]

maybe its 25? would that sound about right?

[Jcb890]

25" is 2' 1" just go take a tape measure to it ;)

[mr_240sx]

come to think about it....... it was 25! :boink:

[RBS14]

haha I'm at 22 1/4. Woot!

[mr_240sx]

haha I'm at 22 1/4. Woot!
what size rims? stock aero or body kit?

[Chasmoore04]

that looks good. Too bad Q-com has dranage ditches, are you gonna lift it back up a bit?

[RBS14]

17x9. I got some weird clunking coming from my gr-6's too in the past few days. never before. Only thing I can recommend to you is to make sure the top nut on the pillowball is tight. They came loose when I had HE's and made the same sound. When I get the time, i'll make sure mine are tight.

I raised it up about 5mm to clear the tread on new tires, but that's it. I'm contemplating notching the fenders, but I think I'll wait till I get spacers.

[tastyratz]

dude I daily drive a car like that.... on NEW ENGLAND ROADS. you got nothing on me lol. i can just fit my shoe underneath my kit and I have to keep the stock front lip because its urethane and bends when i jam the jack under there to work on the car. you just have to have half a brain to know how to drive a car that way watching out for stupid crap. I only have a problem with 1 speedbump in my area because theres a sinkhole after it. coilovers are stiff enough that its not much of an issue... the car is only gonna travel so much... if you slammed it that way on ebay cut springs and stock shocks then your in trouble.

[young gun]

dude I daily drive a car like that.... on NEW ENGLAND ROADS. you got nothing on me lol. i can just fit my shoe underneath my kit and I have to keep the stock front lip because its urethane and bends when i jam the jack under there to work on the car. you just have to have half a brain to know how to drive a car that way watching out for stupid crap. I only have a problem with 1 speedbump in my area because theres a sinkhole after it. coilovers are stiff enough that its not much of an issue... the car is only gonna travel so much... if you slammed it that way on ebay cut springs and stock shocks then your in trouble.
wtf are you babbaling about?

[Dousan_PG]

dude I daily drive a car like that.... on NEW ENGLAND ROADS. you got nothing on me lol. i can just fit my shoe underneath my kit and I have to keep the stock front lip because its urethane and bends when i jam the jack under there to work on the car. you just have to have half a brain to know how to drive a car that way watching out for stupid crap. I only have a problem with 1 speedbump in my area because theres a sinkhole after it. coilovers are stiff enough that its not much of an issue... the car is only gonna travel so much... if you slammed it that way on ebay cut springs and stock shocks then your in trouble.


:ugh: :goyou:

[chmercer]

I have to keep the stock front lip because its urethane and bends when i jam the jack under there to work on the car.

are you seriously this fucking retarded?

[RBS14]

haha I know you're soked on your car, but that definately sounded retarded.

You can barely fit your shoe under your "kit"?

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y263/scooters142/drifting/driftcir_01_069.jpg

I can't believe you only have trouble with one speed bump. My car doesn't even go over speedbumps. At all. hahaha

[kingsol]

how's the bumpsteer? which ends are you running?

[Ian]

i just had did an event yesterday...and i damn near rubbed all the way through my wiring harness...and i have it pulled up over my fender lip too!


it's rubbing right at the firewall where the wires come out...it's about .75" away from the metal at full lock pointing left...i'm gonna have to relocate it thru the engine bay i guess...i hate working on electical shit :(


on another note, how does your front clear in any way shape or form? lol, my car is a good 2" higher then yours w/ 225/45/17 in the front and i get smoke from my front fender when i get deep angle and high speed.

[sr_drifter]

are your front wheels 17x9 +15 FN's

[Ian]

wait...your'e running 205/40 on a 17???


jesus...i thought my 215/45 was a short tire haha
i'll look into lower profiles so i can drop it more

[sideview_180sx]

wait...your'e running 205/40 on a 17???


jesus...i thought my 215/45 was a short tire haha
i'll look into lower profiles so i can drop it more

a 215/45 on a 9 is the common stretch. 215/40 is more extreme. scott your running 205/50 or 205/40 up front, if so, are you using a tube to get the bead to set??

[sideview_180sx]

i just had did an event yesterday...and i damn near rubbed all the way through my wiring harness...and i have it pulled up over my fender lip too!


it's rubbing right at the firewall where the wires come out...it's about .75" away from the metal at full lock pointing left...i'm gonna have to relocate it thru the engine bay i guess...i hate working on electical shit :(


on another note, how does your front clear in any way shape or form? lol, my car is a good 2" higher then yours w/ 225/45/17 in the front and i get smoke from my front fender when i get deep angle and high speed.

seems like your tire series is really high for such a wide tire. try like 225/40 or 235/40 yah I get the same problem, but thats attributed to the gay ass fronts I got for cheap, I already relocated the harness inside the engine bay, but I just may go back and run it up and around so it doesn't come close to the tire at near full lock and compression

[Ian]

i donno, i always thought that 225/45/17 was a very common size on our cars...i think i'm gonna go for a 235/40 all around now that i'm in need of new tires. I cant find any 225/40 anywhere, only 1 set of Nittos.


Why would you run it back through the fender now that you have it in the engine bay?

[RBS14]

How's my bumpsteer? Well lets just say I've got enough for everyone on zilvia to have some, and still have plenty left for myself. But I don't feel it when I'm drifting, so I couldn't care less. Feels GREAT GREAT GREAT drifting this low. It's a completely different car than 1 1/2" higher. Just Tein tie rods. I'll get some bumpsteer adjustable rod ends sometime.

Yeah they're 17x9 +15 FN's. I need like a 20mm spacer tho. With ~3.5-4 degrees of camber in front, and this low, they're sunk like a f'ing battleship. Yeah, I'm running a 205/40. With a nice grippy tire, it's great. I love how it feels, and it allows me to keep the car dumped. I compared one of my wheels with 205/40 to one with 225/45 and the latter of the two was almost exactly 2" taller! That's a ton. I don't have to use a cheetah to mount them. hell, I don't even have to hit the blaster on the machine or take the valvecore out of the stem. Easier than many of the other tires I mount up on a daily basis. Why? I dunno. Stretching tires is easy and not near as big a deal as tire guys (*read: Idiots) think it is.

Cheers.

[Ian]

yeah, my tire guy does a 215/45 on my 9 with ease.

[raen419]

scott, the only bad thing about slamming your car is messing with the roll center...but fuck it, that looks hot....hahahaa

[silviaz]

Oh man I didn't know it was possible to go low that much !!!!!! bouhaha your ride is HOT! And you drift well too !! Good luck on the street bro.