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just purchase my gtr not long ago, and have found out it is equiped with buddy club racing spec dampers, they seem pretty good on a nice flat road but make for a bloody stiff ride most of the time.

I think they are a 12kg spring rate up front and 10 in the rear. Is this too stiff for day to day road use? On some roads it feels like my car is going to rattle to pieces!

What suspension do you guys recomend for a street driven r32 gtr?

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Those spring rates seem excessively high for a road car, but only you can be the jusdge of whether it is any good or not, are you happy with them??

on a nice flat smooth road they are pretty awesome, but then your avg city street they are pretty bad, it feels like the car is gona shake to bits, i think they are more a track orientated suspension kit, any ideas of something a little less stiff to switch to?

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You have to be careful with overly stiff suspension on the street as it will do damage to the chassis in the long term. It will put a lot of stress on your strut towers.

I run Tein super streets with 5 and 4kg spring rates and are great for the street, much better than my old GAB's, but they were shagged. Highly recommended, especially for the money.

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I just took out swapped my Buddy Club Racing Specs for the Bilstein/Whiteline combo on my GTT and yes, ride quality in daily driving is much better with the Bilsteins. Those Racing Specs are firm-as, but that said, they're perfect for the track, as the name suggests...

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yeah the bilsteins are quite good. still quite firm though. you should buy mine. :) i'm selling the bilsteins out of my GTR, come with Eibach springs. very nice road/track compromise set-up.

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yeah the bilsteins are quite good. still quite firm though. you should buy mine. :) i'm selling the bilsteins out of my GTR, come with Eibach springs. very nice road/track compromise set-up.

how much are u selling them for? how do the Eibach springs compare with the whiteline setup on the group buy?

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well i dont know where/how/from what the whiteline springs are made so direct comparison is tricky. but I can tell you that eibach have a world wide reputation for high quality suspension products. exact spring rate i'm not sure on but they are nothing too extreme, probably around 5kg front, 4kg rear. having said that, the SK/whiteline springs dont advertise or tell you the spring rate either. :D selling for $1100 all in, springs, shocks the whole caboodle.

as a package i've found it very good. Eiback are renowned for their springs, and bilstein for their dampers. so best of both worlds I reckon.

http://eibach.com/cgi-bin/start.exe/eibach/index.html

http://www.bilstein.com/index1.php

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i currently have bilstein shocks (from groupbuy) and eibach springs 7kg/mm and they are truely amazing.

driven on teins, cuscos, and HSD all with 8kg/mm and they dont hold a candle to the bilsteins/eibachs

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