Bilstein rear shocks part number?

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351cleveland
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Joined: Wed Sep 29, 2010 7:39 pm
Car: 2003 Infiniti QX4 4x4
1993 Acura Legend coupe 3.5/typeII 6spd swap build

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So i will be tackling my suspension early spring. Items i will be replacing: ome rear medium duty 1/2-3/4" lift with new bilstein hd's or kyb gas-a-just shocks. New front struts, prefferably bilsteins but have yet to find a set for the r50's so probably just go with the reccommened kyb gr-2's. And ofcourse the rear trail-arm poly-urethane bushings both upper's and lower's. Any feedback would be great, especially which kit to order from 4x4parts.com(ie. 2-piece or i-piece bushings?) Oem upper strut mount bushings. Also the best/cheapest place to order the shocks and rear srings. I heard ruggedrocks.com for the springs, and maybe amazon.com for the struts, and a guy off of craigslist told me to email the parts person at rockauto for the correct bilsteins shocks.


m0nkeyprince
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Car: 1998 Qx4
Location: Bay Area, CA

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I basically got KYB gas a justs and their GR2 struts from ebay
OME Springs from rugged rocks
plus all the OEM stuff from everything nissan (or some other site like it, i forgot)

I love the KYB's , except if i knew which bilstien shock would fit, i probably would have sprang for that

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351cleveland
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Joined: Wed Sep 29, 2010 7:39 pm
Car: 2003 Infiniti QX4 4x4
1993 Acura Legend coupe 3.5/typeII 6spd swap build

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Thanks for your input. I basically just bit the bullet and ordered the rear bilsteins, one-piece trailing arm bushings for just the lowers, and new hardware from 4x4parts.com. I got the kyb gr-2 struts from ajusa.com which were only $118 shipped. Pretty good price on the struts, but 4x4parts.com was kinda of a rape job overall especially with their cheapest shipping method being close to $30 for everything i ordered. I still have to buy the oem strut mounts and bearings. I read from another post that had a link to courtesyparts.com listing of all the parts associated with the strut assemblies, although it would add up to quite a bit for both sides if i ordered every part for it. I hope i can just get away with getting those two parts for each side that you guys reccomend while doing this job. Any other input would be a big help. Thanks fam!


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