Could anyone tell me if these springs will work on my 2005 G35 Sedan, automatic? Thank you very much in advance:

http://www.forums.clubel.ca/showthre...700#post341700

 

Yes, but there's hardly any advantage at all. Why would you do these springs?

You do realize you can go with OEM Z springs (04.5+ are better) and lower your car 1" and improve the handling at the same time...

 

Well, currently my car has Eibachs on it. I purchased the car used, and did not know it was lowered....(my own ignorance) anyway, it has negative camber i have learned, and to correct that, i can either spend 800 or so dollars correcting front and rear camber, or i can just put stock springs back on it and save some money, before i chew through another set of tires. Currently, in my financial situation, the cheaper safer route is best for me. The car looks nice lowered, but at a cost.

Also, i am concerend that these stock springs are coming from a sport 6MT, and i do not think my vehicle was a sport package, so does that mean the springs wont work since i likely do not have sport shocks? Thanks again for the reply.

 

^How bad is your camber really? You sure it's not the toe that's off?

Toe will chew through tires really quick, and neg. camber increases that effect.
However, if the toe is kept in check, you can actually run camber without destroying tires too quickly.

What's your camber at anyway?

 

Not sure what it is at. The guy that put tires on it today said the camber is way out. I did not get a number out of him. I think for him to give me an exact number he would have had to do an alignment and charge me for it, and since these were not adjustable, he did not go through the motions, other than telling me they are way off. He said the front and rears both need to be adjusted badly, otherwise i will continue to cup my tires. And at $600 bucks a set, i dont want to be replacing them every year.

 

If it were me, I would order some toe bolts for the rear ($40), put them on, then get an alignment and call it a day. Like it was mentioned before, bad toe setting will eat tires (you are essentually dragging the tires at an angle as you drive). Camber will wear the inner side of the tire faster than the rest of the tire, but with your drop I dont think that it will be bad. If you didnt know the car was lowered before you bought it, that tells me that your drop is minimal so I suspect that your camber is slightly out of spec.
Focus on the toe front and rear and you should be good.

Just my .02 cents

To answer your question though, Yes the springs will fit. They will wear out your shocks faster, but if you still have the OEM shocks/struts they are probably already worn out. 60K or so is average life.

 

Here are two pics of my car. Not sure if you can see how much it is lowered there or not. I have no idea. Anyway, what are toe bolts? will that adjust the toe in on both the front and the rear, and then lessen the effects of the neg camber? Thanks for the advice.

 

If you get a tape measure and measure from the ground to the top of your wheel arch, in the front and back, some of the stance experts around here can tell you exactly how much you're lowered, and we'll have an approximate idea how much camber that's putting you at.
But just looking at the pics, I don't think you're so low as to get into big issues with camber wear.
As it was mentioned, pick up some toe bolts just to make sure you can get the rear toe in-spec, and get an alignment. You may want to have them use 350Z specs. Your camber isn't going to go back into spec for the sedan, but might go into spec for the Z, it's a little more aggressive.

 

Im at 26 3/8" in front and 26 3/4" in the rear from ground to the top of the arch of the wheel well.

 

its not 800 bucks for front and rear camber kits together ... the way your car sits you shouldn't have a problem with camber at all out back. i don't see why they couldn't get your toe back in spec from that hight your at now . You can get rear camber kit "ichiba w/ rear toe bolts for under 150 bucks" thats what i have but I'm -5.5 out back but my toe is in spec 100%. IIRC you can just order rear toe bolts from venders on here- b2autodesigns.com has them for our cars and thats where i buy almost everything for my 06 sedan ..


toe bolts are for the back only. caster is what can destroy your front tires but you will be fine in the front and wont need to spend the money on a camber kit up front ... i don't have a front camber kit on my car nor does quite a few others in here don't have them as well and were running -2.5+ up front for being slammed ...

by looking at your car and the drop i would say your not more then -1.5 all around which is fine . Before i had my new set up i was -2.5º out back and -1.5º up front and driving hard for like 7 months i had no signs of front camber problems but the rear i had a little bit ...

so all this being said your camber problem will be fine all around .. if your main concern of rear tires getting bld just buy rear toe bolts for like 40 bucks and call it a day BUT i think you will be fine without getting anything and having a GOOD alignment somewhere ...


like Ashley said above ^^ alot of people with go with the 350z specs for alignments. once you get over -4º your tires will wear fast but as long as your TOE is good you can get well over a year with -4+ .

 

Ok, and tire size?

 

P215/55r17

 

you don't need a camber kit nor toe bolts with that drop ... the guy doing your alignment has no clue what he is doing then

when your drop over 1.5'' then you can do a rear camber kit and toe bolts

 

Yeah, mine is right at 26.75-27 all the way 'round. Also my tires are 245/40-19s, so that adds right at 1/4. On stock tires, I would be 26.5-26.75. But I'm not showing camber after a year, stock toe bolts.
Everything on mine went into spec except for camber, which was only just barely out.

 

This is the wear on my tires that i just replaced (I know, i drove these to the absolute limit) Is that Toe or Camber causing that type of wear?