this set up doesnt allow adjustment of height other than by reducing pre-load on the spring which would shorten the shock stroke.
I am not going to preload them. I am also not going to slam the car as its completely useless to be scraping the floor. For that off the shelf shiznit will do just fine. Even ksports lol. Not my goal.
Instead I’ll be playing with an unlimited range of spring choices sand tender springs. It’ll go low plenty enough not stupid drift frame scraping low, but just enough. I can always modify the housings down the line but still have the real important part… the dampers Pretty cnc’d 'off the shelf coilovers" look pretty and have tons of useless atypical features that are nice to sell to the masses, but ignore the most important thing; the dampers. It’s like buying a computer, it has so much junk on it, ‘features’ but in the end its a bloated slow computer.
Camber is also only adjustable with the camber plates, not at the lower bracket which limits your range of adjustability.
Actually its slotted on bottom as well… and in fact I can get some positive camber all the way to almost -5.0 out of it. Uhm… I think thats plenty camber adjustment. I run -3.0.
I guess most guys here want to run 0 camber lol…
You may also want to add dust-boots to the damper pistons and possibly bumpstops as well…
Bumpstops are obviously on, you just dont see them in the pix.
when you consider the cost of your dampers, springs, camber plates front and rear etc. and then the lack of features that most of our cars do require there is a perfectly reasonable trade off between features (fact) and dampening which is almost hypothetical given that you wont be able to tell the difference with your experience, nor would i.
well the dampers are really the only costly point. The camber plates are typical cost, 100-200. The coilover kit WITH springs is 400~ You could opt for the single adjustable koni 8610s, and thatll be like 150 each instead of 250 each. Then the housings themselves, either have them made or make some yourself, save yourself money there.
On top of that you get to kind of learn what a coilover really is, how the whole structure, the whole product works and is built. That in itself is gold value.
That’s about what it takes. That was my koni 8611 setup (or the cheaper 8610 setup). Considering what it seems is the trend on son240 EVERYONE could just run koni yellows, unless they want super stiff dampening and springrates to drift and not grip.
I dont see why our cars ‘require’ to be slammed. If that’s the only feature people really care about, then by all means, they can get megan racing, stance, ksports, d2s, powered by max, dg-5, tein, whatever they want out there pick your color coilovers. If that’s all people really care about.
There’s plenty of these ‘drift’ brands out there.
i would personally not opt for your set up because it doesnt suit my needs as well as a set of Stance, which i run in both of my cars including my winter car.
You’ll sell plenty dont worry about my posts
you better be out at the track this year…
Definetely. When I asked mark end season it was all over and too late when I put the car back together… just have a few bits to get sorted out in spring. There was a few non nissan club track days but I opted to just park her for the season and concentrate on other life important matters. So until next year in april may ish or something. The most anoying one is actually something loose in the fuel tank… whenever I corner the fuel gauge goes all the way down and there is fuel starvation… engine cuts and loses all power… I have a project thread, just didnt start one on son cause it would be just bashing and shit talking.
And fyi, these dampers are used plenty down in the states. They do just fine even if its foreign to son240 still. Koni yellows, 86xx, 28 series dampers all of them do juuust fine. Including Ohlins (non japanese made ones as there were ones made in japan for japan those are junk), Bilsteins, even a few guys with motons, penskes, AST 4 ways (crazy stuff) and they too daily drive them while tracking them Of course not in winter (my car will never touch winter).
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A guy down in the states I know ran Silkroad RM-A8 (oooh aaah oooh) with 6kg/mm front and 5kg/mm rear springs… (used to be 8/6 but lowered rates) after switching he said the silkroads were like ‘driving silk’ literally but… felt trash in contrast after he switched to the Konis By the way he made those claims while running 9.8kg/mm front and 7.1kg/mm rear with the koni 8610s up front and koni yellows in the rear That was like almost a year ago. Now he runs all around koni 8611s.
I myself might lower my springrates i made a mistake of going with 10.7kg/mm front and 8kg/mm rear. I mean the car hauls ass, but since I dont have r comps its a bit much for my 255 azenis. People still wouldn’t guess its a coilover setup with such spring rates though I’ll still keep these springs though if and when I do some aero
I’m extremely enthused to have some fun on the track next year whenever within next year it is, but definitely.
Right now my car dreams are on hold however winter + financial I wont spend on anything else on the car no more until I improve the driver. The car has plenty in itself. It lacks power obviously but everything else is quite nice to say the least.
There is no other reason I am building this car except to enjoy it in the summer on track. I have two daily drivers.