Big pain in the butt weekend getting this one, due to a problem with the oem bolts not fitting in the new rear strut and because of a seized nut that ending up being cut off. But, they are on and it's getting aligned tomorrow.


The goods.

Bolt FAIL.

Another view.


The drop, ignore the dirty car (install took much longer than expected and it's going to rain tomorrow - hence no wash).










More pics after it's washed later. Also waiting to be installed is my rogue engineering short shifter.

Next mods up are rear diffuser and side skirts painted to match the front lip, not sure on what brand sides yet...

 

Looks great, do you think i will have the same bolt issue if I got a set for my G35?

 

^ yup. If you got the newer batch of coils that has the welded bolt at the end. i would just ask the vendor if the coils come with welded nut.

It's an easy fix if you can find the correct bolt.

OP: looks good!

 

I would say 99%, I just got mine and I talked to people who got these a good while ago and even told f&f about it but obviously there was no change for my batch. It isn't a problem you can't work around, it just really helps to know about it before you have the car up trying to put the struts on. If I were to know before hand I would order another of the oem bolts and take the bottom of the new struts into a machine shop and just have them drill it to open it up. This shouldn't cost much and your car isn't gimped because of a partial coilover install.

 

Loving the drop ! Fandform needs to supply the correct bolts. Lucky for me member la13 had a few extra bolts that fit.

 

Moar low xet! Doet!

 

How much did those set you back if you don't mind me asking? Looks great though, more low would be awesome, but it's still clean and sexxxx

 

the ff coils are $875 shipped, well thats how much they were when i bought them

 

great coils but they really need to supply bolts.

 

I got them for about $850, it was a bit cheaper because it was at the end of a batch or something but definitely a good deal.

I still have plenty of more room for dropping on these, and I might end up dropping the rears a bit more but I have to get used to this ride height. It sure is a big difference from my z-htechs and I'm trying to figure out where I can and cannot go now.

 

So got it aligned (well attempted to) and the guy was nice and did his best to try to fix my camber and toe. Unfortunately his tech didn't print out all the before and after information but here's what I do have:

Front Left:
Camber After -3.0
Toe After 0.05

Front Right:
Camber After -2.8
Toe After 0.04

Front
Cross Camber After -0.2
Total Toe 0.09

Rear Left
Camber After -3.8
Toe After - He actually lost my after rear toes but he said he got them back in spec

Rear Right
Camber After -2.5
Toe After - same as above

Rear
Cross Camber -1.3
Thrust Angle -0.14

Now he said he had problems due to stuff on my car hanging too low and already being a bit too low for his setup so he recommended me to another place in town that might be able to help. But, he also said he couldn't go up more in the rears or I would have big rubbing issues.

Right now I have stock cambers up front and spc rear camber arms and toe bolts in the rear. So my question is this camber reasonable being dropped as low as I am? Or should I go to the other place to get aligned and do I need to look into front camber kits? I am also currently running 25mm spacers all around, so backing off on the spacers is a possibility all though I would lose some flushness...

 

Wonder why ur rear camber isn't matching. I think ur camber is ok with ur setup. I'm at -2.5 all around.

 

You have camber kit in the rear.. Why is your camber -3.8 and -2.5?

My camber rear befor was 3.0 and 2.8 in the rear.. I got rear camber kit and got it back to -1.5

Take it to a better spot.. you can get the rear back to spec bro if u got a camber kit even if you are drop that low.

Edit: You are from sj/slo? san jose ca.. Take it to motorsports in hayward

 

Hey guys I'm getting these installed next week before I take it to my installer what bolt should I purchase?

 

I would also like to know since I will be buying these very soon. Thanks.