i posted some pictures in the gallery of my sedan on 350z Htech teins, link to gallery at bottom.Hopefully i can get some better pics soon. the ride is somewhat stiffer but smoothed out from the original sport suspension,. I also have hotchkis sway bars and the ride before was very jittery and unstable and now it feels planted. The alignment #'s are below the total toe and cross camber ar after and the height of ground to fender is 26 and 1/4 inches

right / left
front
camber before -1.0 / -1.3
camber after -1.0 / -1.2
toe before 0.27 / -0.29
toe after 0.05 / 0.06
cross camber 0.2
total toe 0.11
rear
camber before -1.3 / -1.8
camber after -1.4 / -2.6
toe before -0.03 / 0.89
toe after 0.09 / 0.11
cross camber 1.2
total toe 0.19

 

I think that those are the springs i want to go with for my 03 sedan i dont really know about the specs are they ok without chamber kit

 

im still gonna get a rear camber kit after i get my rims i ordered. i gotta pay a lil bit of that off first

 

Something's up for the rear camber to be that different in the back side to side, also look's like they gave you positive toe, not correct for these cars. Are you ok with the rear drop?

 

yeh, the rear's not setup correctly.

>camber after -1.4 / -2.6

The camber should be set equal. I bet your right can still be
adjusted (unless your car was in an accident or something).


>toe after 0.09 / 0.11


gsedan35- what's the toe setting for sedans? Is that enough? coupes
usually use around 0.15 each side for a total of about 0.30 degrees.

 

the car has never been in any accidents and i thought the numbers looked a little weird to me. The rear wheels definently need a correction kit. I'm getting another alignment when i get my wheels. I'm gonna take it to a different place and see what they can do with it. Gsedan35 what exactly do you mean by am i happy with the rear drop? I just want to make sure i answer the correct question and not the wrong one. i love the drop but i want that rear right camber fixed. Could i jack the car up mysef and try to adjust it and if so could someone post a picture of what to adjust, or should i just take it somewhere else and drop another 50-100 bucks for another alignment. My only problem is if the specs come out the same i'm out more money . the other option is an spc camber kit and toe bolts which is about all i think i would need to get back to specs. any comments or suggestions are welcome and appreciated. thanks to all that helped me in the past like gsedan35 and kenchan. all the info you guys gave in all your posts and pms helped me alot.

 

here are the rest. I'm getting clunking from the front of the car and its only when i go over uneven bumps. after searching it is either them settling, but it has'nt gotten better. or its a loose swaybar.Any suggestions guys

 

I installed my 350Z H-techs yesterday. I pulled the oem 2003 350Z shocks so I could test the springs with the oem sport shocks.

shoeboy3004, I wanted to know how you felt about the rear drop because to my eye the front to rear fender gaps are off, "looks" like the rear is lowered much more then the front. It bugged me so much on my car that I jacked the car up and altered the rear drop. I placed a 3/8" thick shim under the upper spring seat. Took me from a 1.4"/1/4" drop to a 1.4"/1" drop. My alignment shop can't get me in til tuesday, so I went ahead and zeroed out the rear camber and toe settings for now. Too early to comment about how the handling is or ride and drive quality with the oem sport shocks. Here are some pics of my car with the 350Z H-tech's and 3/8" spacers installed in the rear.





Front wheel fender gap


Rear wheel fender gap

 

my front fender gap was the same and it has dropped as the last week went on. they definently settle and drop more my passenger side has dropped a half inch in a day so i know they will settle. how many inches from the ground to the fender in front? i might need to check out your shop after i see how your alignment goes. I ordered 19x8 +38 all around advans with 245-35-19 tires. will that have any affect on camber at all because i plan to get another re alignment after i get them and put em on

 

[QUOTE=Gsedan35]

I placed a 3/8" thick shim under the upper spring seat. Took me from a 1.4"/1/4" drop to a 1.4"/1" drop


Gsedan35

The drop looks good. Nice balance between front and back. But isn't adding the 3/8 shim actually decreaseing the drop from the original 1/4". Just wondering because I think I would like to do the same if I go with H techs.

 

went back and got it realigned and had both rears re-aligned to -1.6 degrees each all is better now and the front is even with the back now

 

So how long until it seemed to settle evenly? I just bought the same setup, and want to know how long I should wait before I get it aligned. Thanks!

 

[QUOTE=geewiz]
Tein list's the specs for the 350Z H-tech's as a .3"/.2" drop on the 350Z. However, any 350Z spring, be it aftermarket or oem, will lower a G35 sedan an additional inch. So .3"/.2" plus 1" = 1.3"/1.2" However, I'm not on oem sized tires, not just width wise, but height wise, they are shorter to a degree.

Here's a place that I found out makes spring shims that can be used in the rear, I made mine myself, before I found these.

http://www.pitstopusa.com/detail.aspx?ID=23986

 

took about a week and a half to drop all the way. the clunking noise was a loose front swaybar.