Swift springs review!!!!!

bmarcinczyk14

I brought mine back to the installer to try and fix the creaking noise, he even removed the suspected side again and greased the sleeve that's supposed to prevent the creaking noise. I got it back and at first I thought he fixed the problem, but after a day it started creaking again. It's not a biggie, it's only going up curbs slowly, normal driving I don't hear anything from them, so I think I'll just live with it.

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ZMan8

Very strange it keeps doing that after several times of reinstalling it.

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kenchan

i run swifts on my other car which is my dd. drove all winter through salt and hardly washed.

unlike tein and tanabe springs where the paint started cracking off in one winter use, the swifts held up fine. the springs are wound very well to match the stock dampers too. i think this is the only spring manufacturer that actually tests the ride quality of the car.

the others (tein, tanabe, eibach to name a few) are like just eyeball the spring rate, should work.... and it doesnt.

KaienZ34

I installed my spl rear camber arms but didn't need the spc toe bolts to get the rear back in spec. Now I just some front camber adjustment and i'll be good.

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speedfreek

Well mine may be the tech at Firestone doesn't know what he is doing. But they said it is the best they could do to get it back in spec (which was 0.15 and 0.18 deg toe). When I got new tires installed last week at Nissan they said "our tech thinks he can get it in spec." I said, "can you guarantee that as in if you can't get it in spec I am not paying." They said "No." So I figure it would be best to go ahead and install the toe bolts and take it back to Firestone to get the toe dialed into 0 deg rather than to pay a shop $80 to try and get it in spec with the stock bolts. Right now I am only out $10 for drill bits and a couple hours tomorrow to do the install.

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wheee!

You can always get the toe back to spec, but the camber will suffer or vice versa. You cannot get both back to spec without a camber kit and toe bolts... so either live with -2.8 camber or get a set of toe bolt and camber arms!

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speedfreek

Rgr that. I already have the SPC rear camber arms on and the rear camber is 1.7 - 1.8 IRC. So toe bolts it is.

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KaienZ34

That's cool i'm not picking with you, I was just saying what mine looked like.

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speedfreek

No worries. Perhaps you are running more camber with your setup allowing your toe to be near 0.

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KaienZ34

I know it's been talked about before, but does anyone know if SPL is ever going to come out with a front camber kit?

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KaienZ34

Also for the guys that are still having noise problems with their swifts, this maybe something to look into.

https://www.splparts.com/store/produ...hp?pid212.html

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bmarcinczyk14

Wow, wouldn't you think this is something that should automatically be included with the springs? Anyways, thanks for the info though!

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speedfreek

Got my toe bolts installed. Now I need to get an alignment ASAP. Anything in particular I should tell the tech doing the alignment? I only enlarged the hole towards the inside of the car. If they try to do a full rotation of the toe cam bolt will it F up something?

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speedfreek

Just got back from Firestone. I told the tech what I did so he wouldn't try to fully rotate the toe cam bolt. He got me lined up for ZdayZ. 0 toe on one side and 0.02 on the other. It was great success!

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KaienZ34

Swifts on.

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