a plan to lower my ride

[nissilvat]

hello.. i was wonderin that, after i install a set of tein s tech springs and kyb adjustibles, is there anything else that i would need to add to the suspension. will a job like this affect the camber too negatively that my tire life would decrease?

[:: orion ::]

Nope, that's all you'll need to lower it.

It WILL cause more negative camber, but negative camber alone DOES NOT kill tires...toe kills tires.

On the rear of a 240SX, when the suspension "squats", it adds camber, and toe IN.

So after you lower the car, it will need to be aligned and have the rear toe set to ZERO. This will minimize wear, but the rears will ALWAYS wear faster than the fronts, even with proper alignment. Comes with the territory.

- Brian

[InsanityInc]

Negative camber does make your tires wear unevenly, and can negatively impact handling by reducing the size of your contact patch (some negative camber can increase the size of it, but after about 1 or 2 degrees, it isn't helping anymore). Howver, the stechs only drop it by 1.2in front and .9 rear or something fairly small. Plus the rear suspension is multi-link, so it's pretty easy to change your suspenion geometry on the rear.

[RipShift]

I have my S13 lowered 1 3/4 inches front and rear and I burned through a set of nankang NS1's in less than eight months. Yes negative camber does kill tires. the left rear tire (at the time, yes I did rotate them) was down to the chords. like orion said, you'll need to take it to an alignment shop and have them fix it. and actually orion, on rwd cars you set it with a very slight toe in, so that they run at zero when the car is moving