Acquiring Sydneykid Suspension Setup

[Taso84]

Hi all,

Would like to replace my current coilover setup with the sydneykid bilstein/whiteline combo that everybody on here raves on about.

How are people still buying these? Are you simply buying the various parts online?

Thanks

Taso

[Sinista32]

Email Gary. Check his profile for his email address.

I wont post his email address in this thread just in case he gets spam

Edited October 18, 2014 by Sinista32

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

or go on eBay and get it overseas.. works out pretty cheap

[GTSBoy]

or go on eBay and get it overseas.. works out pretty cheap

Gary's pricing is still not bad, and you do get the custom valving and extra circlip grooves that you wouldn't get buying the Bilsteins vanilla from eBay.

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

Gary's pricing is still not bad, and you do get the custom valving and extra circlip grooves that you wouldn't get buying the Bilsteins vanilla from eBay.

true that, I don't have the circlip grooves on mine...

will be offlloading my set in a few months.. they're great on the street, but not that great on the track unfortunately...

Will be moving onto MCAs coilovers

[yogi000]

I've run the sydkid kit and its decent for steet and light track. I hear good things about the racepace tein setup.

[SargeRX8]

true that, I don't have the circlip grooves on mine...

will be offlloading my set in a few months.. they're great on the street, but not that great on the track unfortunately...

Will be moving onto MCAs coilovers

Let me know when you plan to get rid of them and how much. I plan to get rid of my coilovers. Too hard for my liking. Do you have good ground clearance?

[omnigear]

i though bilstien did not make a shock for the bnr32

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

Let me know when you plan to get rid of them and how much. I plan to get rid of my coilovers. Too hard for my liking. Do you have good ground clearance?

sure thing

You've seen my car (I think).. it's not that low. The rears have about a 2cm gap to the guard and the fronts about 3cm.

[djr81]

i though bilstien did not make a shock for the bnr32

They most certainly do. What they don't make are adjustable shocks for 32 R's.

[omnigear]

part #s? i tried googling it it takes me back here talkin about it , but no number

They most certainly do. What they don't make are adjustable shocks for 32 R's.

[GTSBoy]

http://www.bilstein.de/fileadmin/user_upload/pdfs/katalog/2014/Bilstein_Katalog_2014_2015_GB_low.pdf

[bri73y]

They most certainly do. What they don't make are adjustable shocks for 32 R's.

I have their pss9 in my 32 gtr. Custom but can be done.

[djr81]

The Bilstein pbf cattle dog has the following listed:

NISSAN SKYLINE Coupe (R32)

2.0 4x4, 2.0 Turbo 4x4, 2.6 Twin Turbo 4x4

B6 Sport

Front 24-014717

Rear 24-014724

2.0 4x4, 2.0 Turbo 4x4, 2.6 Twin Turbo 4x4

B8

Front 24-016728

Rear 24-016735

My shocks have the following on the stickers:

Front F4-B46-1471-HO

Rears F4-B46-1742-HO

Most people have the B6's but am not sure what the B8's bring to the party. Says they are a shortened version which would be useful at the front, not so much the back. Don't know what the valving differences are, however.

Edited October 30, 2014 by djr81

[djr81]

Sorry, should read.

My shocks have the following on the stickers:

Front F4-B46-1471-HO

Rears F4-B46-1472-HO

They are, apparently, the old part numbers.

[omnigear]

thank you ^_^

[GTSBoy]

B6 (which is the B46 part number) are great shocks. B8 are the next step up in quality. Hard to say how much better they could be than the B6s, seeing as the B6s feel so nice and work so well. But Bilstein aren't in the habit of telling us lies, so they must have something over them. I agonised a bit over the choice - read the Bilstein website a fair bit, and decided to save the money involved iin stepping up to B8.

[omnigear]

recommended spring rate for mostly street use with spirited driving on backroads?

B6 (which is the B46 part number) are great shocks. B8 are the next step up in quality. Hard to say how much better they could be than the B6s, seeing as the B6s feel so nice and work so well. But Bilstein aren't in the habit of telling us lies, so they must have something over them. I agonised a bit over the choice - read the Bilstein website a fair bit, and decided to save the money involved iin stepping up to B8.

[GTSBoy]

I have R32 GTSt, so my comments are kinda relevant to GTR, but with some limitations. So read this with at least one squinted eye.

Stock GTSt spring rates are <3kg/mm. The Kings low and the Whiteline spring that Gary recommends for GTSt with his Bilsteins are about 4kg/mm. I tried these and for whatever reason they simply don't work. They were far too low and could not be set up high enough. So I ended up with the Kings lows for GTRs. These are >5 kg/mm. They are quite firm, but the Bilsteins give great control.

I would expect that they would still be great on GTR, even with the extra weight.

I have posted fairly extensively on this experience some months back, so search up those posts for more accurate numbers and my sad but happy ending story.

[djr81]

It depends. The biggest problem is getting a decent amount of travel t the front. I would recommend Eibach 65 dia springs, 5/5.5/6 kg/mm front and depending on your preference probably a kg/mm softer at the rear. Use 10" spring if at all possible and make sure you get some strut tops as without them the suspension travel is hopeless.