Thanks for the DIY. Very detailed. It was exactly what I needed to make my decision to take this to a shop. Rep'ed.

confirming that there is no need for a spring compressor for the rear springs?

Just completed my spring install. The rear requires no spring compressor. This is a great resource.

RoZy on Swift Spec R's.... nice

http://www.the370z.com/members/wheee...ped-swifts.jpg

How was the wear and tear on your tires after the drop? Also did you install front and rear camber kit and get your cars allignment done again?

lol, I don't drive enough these days to see ANY tire wear! no more than 200km's since install....

with the tein s tech springs installed, did you need to get any camber kits installed?

No, no camber kit was needed for me. It does have slightly more camber, but not enough to warrant getting a camber kit.

Thanks!:tiphat:

$50!! Where do you live? ANY shop Ive gone to locally wants to charge me and arm and a leg ($250+) to swap out springs. They claim "the book" says 4.6 hours of labor.

He's saying you take the front spring/strut assembly off and take it to them and they'll put the new spring on for that price. Then you mount it back up.

Stopped by Sears today, they said they will not do the spring swap as they will not do any work with any product not purchased through Sears...

...but I did goto my local shop and theyre more then willing to do it for me, time pending, Ill be starting this install in a couple hours.

I think our swift springs and tanabe springs customers would love this so im adding a link to our thread!!

Can you post some pic after installing the springs plz

Yeah the rears are a breeze, about 10 min a side:tup:

I would say that the shops assessment of 4.6 hours is pretty accurate. I "started" my install today and ran into several problems. Not even my air tools and impact wrenches could get the bolt off the front. The The spring compressor got had one with a bad thread. All in all it took me 4 1/2 hours to do one front spring. Exhausted, and bleeding. I stopped for now. I will do the other front tomorrow. I hope the rear springs are as easy as everyone says. By the way, not all springs are aligned the same, So even though you alighn the spring on the rubber top hat in the same position as stock, it wont necessarily fit in the car. I put the nismo spring in my 40th, and the top hat had to be rotated 90 degrees to fit. I had to take the assembly apart again, remove the rubber stopper ring on top, and rotate it. What a pain in the a$$. Lesson learned. All these issues aside, I thing the other front will be much easier. Oh yeh, no need to take off the tower brace :-)