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ok guys if you are reading this please give your opinion im looking in to all the part for the gtr's suspension

im stuck in what to get.

i dont have the buget to run with the Ikeya Formula stuff so what should i do????

do i go with the JUST JAP stuff or with say CUSCO stuff like everything?????

please i need help

I'll pm you the good info and am with Bris! To much money gets wasted in wanky susp for club cars.

Just copy my car. Has nothing to fancy and does pretty well for what it is. Cusco fixed upper arms 3.5deg, adj Cusco rear uppers, tien castor rods and whiteline swaybars with bilstiens. Get the fronts for about $250 secondhand, rears prob $200. Swaybars $500 new. Castor rods $150ish. It has never put me in a bad situation. You having never driven a gtr hard it going to take at least prob 10 trackdays before you even begin to understand how to steer the car let alone touch the susp.

Better than putting $5000 susp in your car you can't understand. The extra trackdays you could do with the money you saved would be more benifitial. I don't get how so many guys do one track day with maybe 25 laps in groups of 3 laps where ther car only does 2 fast and then say they need to take the car to the workshop because it doesn't handle right. They prob haven't even learnt how to drive the new setup! Don't get caught in the cheque book racing.

I was talking to your Dad at the Aust Supersprint Champs about this, it sounded good when he said rotisserie!

I have the following suspension on my R32 and it will run 47's at the Island no problem....

Front:

Nolec Adjustable upper control arms - unfortunately I don't think these are made any more, but worth a look

Cusco castor rods

Whiteline 24mm Front bar

Tien RE shocks that have been revalved

650 lb springs

Rear:

Tune Agent Upper control arms and traction rods - mostly for easy adjustment and to replace the old factory stuff that is about 15 years old

http://www.tuneagent.com.au/public/merchan...gory.aspx?id=84

Whiteline 22mm rear bar

Tien RE shocks that have been revalved

~450 lb springs I think

The HICAS is still in place

Nothing too over the top and have found all parts bullet proof after 5 years on the track and about 10,000 road k's.

Regards

Andrew

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i wish my old man liked my car just a little... its always jap crap get a real car like a commodore. then we pull up at a set of lights and i spank the bommodores ass harder than my house maid

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well time to update,

Christmas has passed and now time to get back on track!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

with dad clipping me tell me to get back in to it this is what we have done this weekend.

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photo of stuff going to be blasted

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the rear sub frame out and painted

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gear box mount to be washed and cleaned before painting

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stuff being painted

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more of the stuff painted

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and now that looks much better

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