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Originally Posted by Kabestro Here's my Lady in (Magma) Red on Swifts, I was thinking on spacers, 15mm on front and 20mm on the back, is this a nice combo?

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Old 07-09-2013, 09:05 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Here's my Lady in (Magma) Red on Swifts, I was thinking on spacers, 15mm on front and 20mm on the back, is this a nice combo? Don't want to go too wide in front cause of the bad roads here in Puerto Rico.
Saludos desde Cayey, Nice to know there are some folks from Puerto Rico here, we should gather sometime. Anyway how does the car handles in these roads of ours, I would like to lower mine, but still debating. im sure I'll be scrapping all the time
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I thought I would be scraping all over the place too, since driving a pick up truck and going to the 370Z. But once you get to know the cars height with the springs you just know where you can go through. You're going to scrape the lip of the front bumper, the black part, but scraping the paint It will have to be a really big pot hole or something. But here in PR anything is possible
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I thought I would be scraping all over the place too, since driving a pick up truck and going to the 370Z. But once you get to know the cars height with the springs you just know where you can go through. You're going to scrape the lip of the front bumper, the black part, but scraping the paint It will have to be a really big pot hole or something. But here in PR anything is possible
Would love to see your car. And have an idea. Did u use camber arms in the back? Did u stay with stock spec alignment? Would be cool to make a meet and greet here. Im Carlos wont say no jejeje
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Would love to see your car. And have an idea. Did u use camber arms in the back? Did u stay with stock spec alignment? Would be cool to make a meet and greet here. Im Carlos wont say no jejeje
I've been reading a lot in the forum and I thought I would end up buying at least the toe bolts, but nope. The car align just fine, I don't really know what are the specs exactly but for now it'll do.
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I've been reading a lot in the forum and I thought I would end up buying at least the toe bolts, but nope. The car align just fine, I don't really know what are the specs exactly but for now it'll do.
Alignment is possible with the stock suspension, but your negative camber is going to be about -2.8.... That's a lot of camber and unecessary wear on your tires. If you try and get back to stock camber or less, you will need camber arms and toe bolts...
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Would love to see your car. And have an idea. Did u use camber arms in the back? Did u stay with stock spec alignment? Would be cool to make a meet and greet here. Im Carlos wont say no jejeje
We should definitely make a meet!
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I've had my swifts on my roadster w/sport package for about 1,000 miles. Love them. Car is much more planted and stable while not adding any harshness. A terrific addition to this car and highly recommended.

I've attached my alignment results in case anyone is interested. Surprising what a mess the pre-alignment measurements were. Hard to imagine why lightly driven car with 10k miles would be so out of whack. Its all good now.
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I've had my swifts on my roadster w/sport package for about 1,000 miles. Love them. Car is much more planted and stable while not adding any harshness. A terrific addition to this car and highly recommended.

I've attached my alignment results in case anyone is interested. Surprising what a mess the pre-alignment measurements were. Hard to imagine why lightly driven car with 10k miles would be so out of whack. Its all good now.
Wouldn't be good for me. That's a lot of rear camber and not enough front. If they were switched you'd be gravy.
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