Anyone have pics of their car with Tein Basic C/O?? also, what height is your Set up??

 

Its about a 2 inch drop, a little more than one finger gap from the top of the tire to the edge of the fender.

 

Your attachment looks like a 1" drop. My S-Techs are lower with a 1.2" drop,
if the circumference of your tires are the same as stock.

What is the distance from the fender arch to the center of the wheel?

Finger gaps are not a very accurate way of measuring ride height.

 

The picture is bad, you can only see the glossy sidewall and none of the tread. Its about a 2 inch drop with about roughly 1 inch of space between the top of the wheel arch to the top of the tread.

And my finger gapping method has worked for years now with no miss calculation.

 

hahahaha wish there was a standard 'finger' huh? oh well, guess
we won't know how low your car actually is.

 

It is standard to measure from the floor to the top arch of the wheel-well. It's 25" on my RX-7.

 

These are older photos of my car and now it is even lower. I can't put a finger between the tires and the wheel well. 1.5 inch drop on front, maybe little more on TEIN coilovers. Rears are maxed out.

 

romanwarrior- that looks great...but how does it ride? Do you use camber correction on the rear and front?

 

I had the car lowered just a few days after I bought it. The install was done by a pro Drifter as a favor. Maybe he is an expert on suspension but I've never had an alignment on the car and no camber correction. I can tell that the alignment is okay just eyeballing how the tires and wheels sit. I do have a little negative camber in the rear but nothing out of the ordinary. My 4 tires are wearing evenly and my car does not wander at high speeds so I know the install was done right. My G35 drives and rides like a dream. Stiff yet comfortable at cruising speeds. I may have to raise the front end about 0.5 inches so I won't scrape everytime I come up a speed bump or drving in and out of driveways.

 

romanwarrior- that sounds great. Your installer must have done an alignment
on his own. Some people can do it using some simple $300 alignment
equipment and some strings and rulers (no joke). Your car otherwise at
that ride height will wander real bad over bumps on the road especially
when hitting a bump on one side of the car. Can you feel bumpsteer
at all when you hit a bump on one side of the car? (your coilovers are
probably stiff enough that it won't compress the suspension much more
preventing bumpsteer).

 

Yea. I know what you mean by using strings for alignment. We use them at the track. It never occured to me that my installer may have done it when he put on my coilovers. Can't feel bump streer when I hit something on the road. That's a good point that you made.

 

Very nice. So you're on the TEIN Basics then? was that 503lb/in springs?
man, I should give that a shot maybe. Ive been thinking about coilovers
but most of them have high spring rates so thought it would be too stiff
for me on this car. perhaps the TypeCS...but that's still about 400lbs/in.

 

Type Basic is fine with 503. Going 671 maybe overkill for everyday use I think, but this is a personal preferrence. I've driven on the Type Flex on the track and works great, but think maybe too much for the streets. My philosophy for daily driven cars is "simpler, the better." Fiddling with the EDFC is one more variable that could possibly complicate things. If 503 is not enough, you can order the 671 from TEIN to go on your Type Basic.

 

Thanks for the info and I agree that EDFC is great, but would be over kill
for the streets for my application as well. I was thinking about getting
the Tokico D-Specs for my springs, but will consider putting the Basics
in my mix of available choices.

 

Tein basic's are great, but because it's not a fully adjustable coilover system, they bottom out like the Tein Super Street's. The Flex's are fully adjustable, and bottom out with those are close to impossible. EDFC is a little over kill, but it's a crap load better than stopping, popping open the trunk/hood and manually adjusting.

your coupe is HOTT man.