'07 350Z struts and springs - Help me decide!

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Old Apr 12, 2011 | 01:24 AM
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Brutal, man. You'll love it once you get everything on. I got my on last weekend. Posted some pics in the sedan forum.
 
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Old Apr 16, 2011 | 02:05 AM
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I finally put on the front suspension yesterday. My local Midas mechanic was able to install a spring on the supposedly bent left strut, so I'm just glad it turned out not to be bent. The spring was installed on correctly and aligned perfectly with the three marks on the strut, but it still wouldn't align right with the three bolts/strut position on the bottom when installing it. My whole body was aching from compressing, twisting the struts, decompressing, compressing again....what a pain in the a$$$! It's finally done though and the drop looks great! I just need to fix the rear snapped stud and replace it with a new bolt and get the car aligned. I took it for a quick test drive and it's looow! I need to pretty much crawl over speed bumps or I'll scrape the bottom of the car. The handling has definitely improved over stock and the ride is way stiffer than as well. Overall, I'm pretty happy with it; just need to get used to the new lowrider...

Here are a bunch of before and real crappy after suspension pics:
It does not seem like much of a drop from the pics, but it's a lot lower from stock. Looks perfect!

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I'll need to wash/wax the car and take better pics later.
 
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Old Apr 16, 2011 | 05:36 AM
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Originally Posted by JacekPSUr6
I took it for a quick test drive and it's looow!
I don't know why but this made me laugh a little. You're nowhere near "looow" but it does look 10X better. Moar pics please!!

As Marcus once said, "There's no such thing as too low, the ground is too high."
 
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Old Apr 16, 2011 | 09:40 AM
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Looks good. I can barely get my jack under the car after suspension swap
 
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Old Apr 16, 2011 | 12:09 PM
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True, it's not as slammed as most of you guys' on here, but I'm still running on stocker 17's. Any lower and I'd be rubbing the bottom of my car. I've never driven a lowered car before and I'll just have to keep reminding myself to go reeeeal slow over speed bumps and in and out of driveways, etc.
I like the way it handles and it just looks
 
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Old Apr 16, 2011 | 11:28 PM
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I drilled out the snapped rear strut bolt - it was a biatch, but it's finally done.
A couple more after suspension swap pics:









 
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Old Apr 17, 2011 | 08:08 PM
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More pics loving the drop!















 
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