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Coilovers - Who Can Set Up

Bratva

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Hi,

I made purchase of some adjustable coilovers for my r34gtt. I was thinking of installing them myself but have a few questions first.

i) My tyres are 245/40/18 at front and 265/35/18 at the back and with stock suspension the fronts already strip some paint off my gaurds when parking, when it is lowered i would need to have the gaurds rolled ?

ii) Should i install the coilvoers myself and then give them to a shop to do the setting up of settings and alignments etc ?

iii) What would be the lowest i can go wihtout farkin up the balance of suspensions (I dont have any aftermarket suspension components so prbly not much can be adjusted)

iv) Who is recommended to do rolling of gaurds, setting up suspension, alignments etc all in one ?

v) Should i instgall them myself to save money then have the shop set it up, or does the coilovers need to be out of the car to do any adjustments to them ?

THanks :)

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See Chris at Inline in queanbeyan and get a price. You will need to drive out and visit him.

Read this as if your realy keen to do it yourself. > Clicky < This is for 32/33 but you will get the jist....

as for rolling the guards - get it done at the same time.

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See Chris at Inline in queanbeyan and get a price. You will need to drive out and visit him.

+1 for Inline - just make sure you give Chris a time limit cos he tends to spend a lot of time getting everything absolutely perfect.

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Saw Chris who said i should prbly install it and adjust it myself :( and he doesnt do gaurd rolling either. What is a recommended height to make r34 look sexy but so doesn't screw up handling ?

I actually called Chris earlier this week about the same thing for my Stagea. He told me that a skyline came in previously withsome guard work done by the lads at Trojan. This is good I suppose because they do alot of work with Skylines and one of them has a Stagea.

So I'm thinking I might get Trojan to install coilovers and rims for me + do the minor guard work at the same time. Then get Chris at inline to get it perfect and aligned.

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+1 for Inline. That was my Skyline he was talking about with the guard rolling, Johnny did that for me about a week ago.

Chris gets stupidly busy hence the recommendations to do some of the work yourself. I'm sure he'll do it if you push that you're not comfortable doing it yourself?

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+1 for Inline. That was my Skyline he was talking about with the guard rolling, Johnny did that for me about a week ago.

Chris gets stupidly busy hence the recommendations to do some of the work yourself. I'm sure he'll do it if you push that you're not comfortable doing it yourself?

How was the result of your guard work? all good? no cracked paint or anything?

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Installation of the coilovers was farkin easy. helps having compressor + rattle gun though. back seats came off in a few mins and very easy to align them in. I think before my car was sold to me the original suspension was put back in thats why most bolts were easy to remove.

I dropped in down pretty low but not too low (1 finger width between gaurd and tyre).

The back wheels now have massive toe-in not sure why.

I bought some BC BR ones for R34gtt now the cornerning is very good no body roll feels a lot safer now but pretty bumpy!

I havent had wheel alignment done yet but will definetly need one, not sure if its that out in the wet the car fishtails and back slips out without even putting any effort in which means i have to drive extremely slow around corners in the wet, but the traction in the dry is great.

COuld also be my tyres i have some Nexus brand korean tyres which seem to last 30, 000km and dont seem to have much tread at all.

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