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KTS rear coilovers for R33 GTS-T

I've upgraded the coilovers on my R33 so I no longer need these rears.

So, its a pair of rear coilovers made by KTS in Japan and since bringing the car to Australia I swapped out the springs to make it a little more suited to the pothole spec roads we have here.

The springs are therefore changed from 7 down to 5kg/mm which is still firm and sporty but not bone jarring like they were before. Also I have changed the bottom mounts out to polyurethane ones from Driftworks in the UK to eliminate any uncertainty in the softer rubber mounts.

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Hey mate im interested in these... I don't have coilovers at the moment, would putting these in the rear for the time being and finding a pair for the fronts work ok/ be better then stock ?

is miss-matching coils okay if I find another pair later on? 

 

Honestly the handling would probably feel a bit off as the front would be soft and the rear, in comparison, firm. So you would probably get oversteer tendances. You could fit them, for sure and match the height to the stock fronts if you wanted to. If you have aftermarket springs/shocks now then they would be firmer already, so fitting these shouldn't upset things so much...

Also, I don't see  anything wrong with mismatched coilovers, as long as they complement each other and/or are set up so it works.

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