I am considering buying springs for my '04 coupe. I want to maintain a good ride with factory shocks and I do not want to deal with purchasing camber kits, especially for the front. I have the factory 18" wheels and tires (if that makes a difference). I've been looking through old posts in this forum about owners and their experiences with different Tein springs and some say they needed to purchase aftermarket camber arms and others say they were able to get their alignments done within factory specs. Here's what I gathered from searching this forum:

Tein H Tech:
-Front: 0.6"
-Rear: 0.3"
- No camber problems. Able to get camber back within factory specs

Tein H Tech for 350z:
-Front: 0.8"
-Rear: 0.7"
- Might be able to adjust close to OEM specs, some owners were able to, and others needed rear camber/toe kit.

Tein S Tech:
-Front: 1.2"
-Rear: 0.9"
- I've read that some people were able to get their alignments within factory specs. However, there were others that needs both front and rear camber arms.

So I guess different results for different owners? the H techs would work, but i'd like to drop the car a little bit lower than that. The 350z H techs sound good. However, I'd really like to get the S Techs. I don't mind getting the rear camber/toe kit (~$200), but I really don't want to get the camber arms for the front (since they are somewhere around 400-500 dollars?).

What would you reccommend?

 

I have S. Techs with no problems.

 

hey GReddySetGO do you have the S techs for the G or Z? thanx

 

For the G.

 

I purchased S Tech TEIN with no problems. Just make sure to take your G to a reputable shop, preferrably one that does custome lowering service. I think I paid between 3~4 bills including alignment.

 

no problems eh?
I just don't want to buy the s techs get them installed and align then find out I have to spend 700 bucks on camber correction parts

 

so you purchased the springs, and then took it to get installed, and aligned? And the installation and aligment was 300-400?

 

The front S-techs for coupe is good, but the rear was too soft.
The H-techs for the 350Z is probably a getter choice.

 

did you guys remove the rubber piece on the bottom of the rear spring?

 

 

the rubber piece thats sits on top of the perch and the spring sits on top of that.. is that more clear?

 

Do anybody has the S-Techs for the 350z on the G coupe? I'm really curious to see the look of it. Do the front sit lower than the back? I will hope so, but being the front is dropped at 0.7 and the rear 0.6, i'm a little scepty.

According to Tein, the H-Tech drop for the 350z is 0.3(f) and 0.2(r)

 

its been a while since I did the install so I checked out TEIN's site on
the install instructions for the CS and figured out what you were talking
about.


Yes, I did reuse the rubber spring holder that goes inside the spring carrier
as you are instructed to do.

 

thanks for the reply. I am just curious to what others are doing since my rear is sitting a lot higher than I expected ~2.5 finger gaps, while the front settled to about 1-1.5 finger gap.

 

maybe i should just save my money