I wanted to post the results of my alignment and see if anyone else had opinions or could post their own alignment specs post drop. I am curious as to how good my alignment is. It seems like .1 or .2 degrees is really really small and shouldnt make much difference.

I found that Front and Rear SPC camber/toe kits were required to get anywhere near spec. I thought the car was dangerous to drive without the rear toe kit. The rear end had way too much toe and would bounce around side to side off bumps.

I installed the SPC front A-Arm, rear toe bolts, rear lower links. I did not install the front 2 degree hub spacer things or any of the bump stop things.

The car's ride is as good as stock, handles 100x better. The only downside is larger bumps really feel bad. Less overall suspension travel must be the cause. I don't ever hear any knocking or noises. I am hoping to move to a nicer place where the roads are smoother. Its rough in Iowa (and I never take my car on gravel. Never!). When I hit larger bumps it just disrupts the entire car a bit too violently. The car maintains control in general much better.

The drop is also perfect. I need to re-measure, but I had a 4 finger gap in before and now its down to one or half a finger gap. The G35x really does need a drop. (It rides higher than a RWD Sedan).

The nissan dealer I used charged me 2 hours ~$240 for the alignment. The first time I went there the tech refused to do the fronts because it was "too hard". He didnt want to have to mess with the big bolt in the front. He also freaked about having to drill the toe bolt holes out. Iowa has ZERO aftermarket support and the techs here seem to only understand basic 'normal' car maintenance things.

I ended up installing everything myself including the toe bolts (not too hard) and finally got them to do the alignment. My car barely made it onto the lift... pretty low. I am not sure how some of you guys get aligned. Most people are lower than I am.

Anyway. Im happy to answer questions about the project. I don't think its a good idea to not get camber/toe kits. The car is thrown out of alignment even with the smallest change (tires included).


Let me know what you think of my alignment!




And here she is...

 

anyone else have alignment sheets they can post?

 

so no sedan people have alignment sheets? No other comments on this type of thing?

last bump i guess. If people dont post real hard data like this then this forum is just full guess work and lots of false statements.