It's about time, gutting the Nismo suspension.
 

Well, I like the Nismo suspension but it can be better. Here is the list of goodies I am getting ready to install.

Aragosta Coilovers: 12K/10K springs
Eibach swaybars front and rear
SPL Front upper control arms
SPL Rear Camber arms
SPL Rear Traction arms
SPL swaybar endlinks front and rear


And what ever else I can find. LOL
Getting all this dialed in is going to be fun.

You replacing the front lower control arm bushings? It will tighten the front up more. :D And you replacing the bearings in the rear knuckles?

You could also do SPL mid links since your going with coil overs, getting rid of the OEM spring bucket. Which also gets rid of the only eccentric adjustment point left.
If it were me I'd do away with the traction arms and spend the money on mid links. I had adj. traction arms for a little while and put the OEM back on.

Noop, Going to stay stock on those. I have done similar on other cars and it is just too much for a DD.

I have thought about the mid links. Not sure yet.

Wuss! :D I've done mine. Not too much more then stock on the noise level.

I'm with Rusty, I did the bushing as well and it really tightens things up. I don't have mid links, and I have not had issues with the traction arms yet, but she has not seen any track time. We will see then and I will make adjustments if necessary.

Regarding the clunking with the bushings it was very noticeable until I drove the car hard at ZDAYZ. It no different than before now. I guess sometimes it pays to drive it like you stole it.

LOL, still not going to do mine at this moment.

The question is, how hard did you drive... :) In those 25mph corners I can assure you I wasn't going that slow tached up in 2nd gear. I had a blast. Did your front tires get greasy at the end of a run?

I have no clunking with mine. :confused:

I might do them later. The big question for me is what tires do I want to set it up to run? I really want to do RE11 285/35/19 front and 325/30/19 rear. I just don't know how many miles I can get out of them since I daily drive 104 miles a day to work.

By the way, my wife if digging into my little fund. She wants 2 more grand champion Chihuahua's. Being married to Ellie May Clampet can be a challenge some times.

It was loads of fun, I didn't have much issue with the tires as it was cool when we ran the Dragon. I have RE 11s on the rear and SO 4s up front. Between the grip of the rear tires being superior to the fronts I had to pay attention to the under steering, but it wasn't bad at all. I can't wait to do it again next year.

Well, what do you guys think. Should I go for the big booty Trudy Tires on the factory Nismo rims?

LOL, I that love Miami Vice and big booty Trudy, so go for it!:tup:

I have been browsing and searching the forum for awhile, but I haven't found anyone that has gone "full" SPL. The reason for the research is that after upgrading my wheels and rotors with much lighter ones my Z has really felt a lot more spry and nimble. This confirms the concept of improving handling by reducing unsprung weight.

So, what I am wondering is if I were to go "full" SPL titanium parts (which would be quite expensive), to what degree would that improve the handling just from weight savings.

Titanium is an amazing material, which I would think would give the car additional chraracteristics if designed correctly. So in combination with coilovers this seems like an compelling upgrade.

Has anyone gone full coilover/SPL?

I'm not sure what you mean by full coil over SPL, but there are quite a few folks with coil over and SPL suspension parts. You need to check out some of the build threads, Rusty and djtodd to name a couple. SPL makes great stuff and its like crack if you are looking to up grade your suspension, it's expensive but wort it.

Still waiting on the seller to finish pulling them off his car. No worries from me. I am so busy I can't see straight and it is crazy hot at the moment. It's all good. I don't know when I will have time to put them on. So this is working out for both of us.

djtodd is the guy I am looking for! I will go bug him. Thank you :tiphat:

Went and picked up the Aragusta's today. Got some room to lower, even with the new Trudy tires. It's going to be a little bit
before I tackle it. Too dang Hot, plus my honey do list is out of control.


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Eccentrics
 

If he doesn't lockout the camber arms he'll still have one pair of eccentrics there after getting rid of the pair on the OEM spring buckets.

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Yeah im in Birmingham Alabama and im not looking forward to installing my hipermax gt4s. The heat and humidity are insane this year.

Looking good spooler-!! Enjoyed meeting you too.
Coming your way for some of that nice tint work one day!
Have a blast with the car my man!
:)

Where is a good place to buy my laundry list of parts? SPL front and rear camber adjusters, SPL sway bar end links front and rear, SPL lockouts, SPC toe bolts, and Hotchkis front sway bar. I am also looking to upgrade my springs to Swift. Powertrix has them for a decent price including the larger rear spring.

Check out Kyle at Huston in the vendors section. I got most my SPL parts from him...good prices!

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I got my SPL parts from Corner3.

I can price both places. No biggy. Let my fingers do the walkin.

I got a lower price from Kyle :p

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When I got my stuff. Corner3 was one of the few places that had the new SPL upper arms on stock. Imagine now you can find better prices. ;)

Corner3 for the front control arms as they I think were the first to carry them. I think the rear contrll arms I got from Zspeed ad midlinks I got from Kyle.

You may get a better pricing because your buying the full meal deal all at once as well...

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Just got off the phone with Charles @Powertrix. I will be doing the Swift spring upgrade for sure. Ordering parts, oh what fun.

Finally, the Swift's just got off the boat...LOL Order has been placed with Powertrix. You guys on the West coast are lucky to have Charles so close.

Thats going to cost some money...aka my avatar....

Done, Sandy and Chloe are at the house...LOL

Holy crap, my front swaybar and rear toe bolts showed up today. My swift springs showed up last week while I was at Zdayz. Suspension is going on this 3 day weekend. I gotta do it before June 27th, that is my neck surgery date.

Yahoo...hers to a successful surgery and recovery!

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Amen to that. Dr said I should be back to work in 3-4 weeks.

You doing the surgery that we talked about? Like my brother's?

Yes, I have 2 areas of concern between C3/C4 and C6/C7. The issue is if the Dr. fixes both he said he would also have to do the 2 in between the other 2 for a total of 4. Due to my areas of severe pain he thinks that C3/C4 is causing all the issues so we have elected to only do that one and see what happens. I have got my fingers crossed that this will cure everything. I don't even want to think about having 4 done.

Hopefully it works out, and you get a nice little pain free vacation. :tup: