coilovers vs springs

[504 350z]

o.k. i'm a little lost here. i want to lower the stance on my 07. i know springs lower the car, but do coilovers do the same? are they used in place of the springs or do they work together. do i need to buy both? i'm just a little confused and need a quick education about both before i purchase. thanks guys.

[Philthy]

If you're looking for a quick, inexpensive and fixed drop go with springs...

Most aftermarket coilovers will provide for height adjustment, and will enhance the suspension performance, trade off is cost...

[Endura-Tech]

504

Aftermarket springs (lowering springs) will work with your original equipment shocks (the ones that come with the car). The coilovers are a complete suspension swap that have both the shock and the spring as a combination. Often enough the benefits of coilovers is the ability to adjust the dampening of the shocks rebound, compression or both, as well as lower the height of the car. As well, with coilovers, many of them will come with a camber plate adjustment in the front of the car so that you could adjust the camber.

Coilovers are clearly the more expensive route compared to getting just lowering springs. It really would depend on your use of the Z. Is it a daily driver? Do you plan to take the car to the occasional track event?

Sometimes just the lowering springs are enough. That is if all you want is to lower the cars stance. However, with lowering springs you will have to change out your OEM shocks after about 10K miles sometimes more. The OEM shocks are not designed to be fit with the lowering springs per se. IT works, you can do this, but at some point the shocks will go bad because of the less stroke that they will then have with the lowering springs.

IF you have any other questions about it, feel free to PM or ask.

http://www.endura-tech.com

By the way, we will have 350Z coilovers available in March. If you are interested let me know.

Justin Endura-Tech

[504 350z]

thanks for the run down. what part of chicago are you from? my ex is from park ridge, il. and after huricane katrina we evacuated there for a couple of months. i had a bouncer/doorman job at bernie's tavern, in wrigleyville, for a while until it was safe to come back to new orleans. great city, hope to return one day to visit some old friends.

[Endura-Tech]

I used to drive through Park Ridge almost everyday to get to work (when the highway was totally backed up I would get off and go through there on Talcott i think it was). That was when I was living off of Addison and LSD, I'm not familiar with Bernies though, is that near Murphys, Sports Corner, Hi Tops etc? or over off of Clark?I loved living in the city, but moved out to the NW burbs with the wife and kids, the commute was a pain.We are located in Schaumburg, just across from Woodfield Mall, I'm sure your ex made you go there once or twice.

Let me know if there is anythig else you need or have questions about.

Justin

[504 350z]

yes i have been to that mall! bernies is one block up from the cubbie bear on addison, right past the mc donalds. i also went to the field museum to see sue the t.rex, got chicago deep dish from pizzeria uno and spent sometime at the heaven on 7 restaurant, off deerborne. the chef/owner is from new orleans. i have one question? what's up with the huge chrome bean in millenium park? anyway, thanks for the help and nice to meet you.

eddie o.

[Endura-Tech]

what's up with the huge chrome bean in millenium park?

Just a waste of taxpayers money I guess.

[NSRsheets]

If you want a cheap fix go with lowering springs and some performance struts. IMO I would save up for some coil-overs. The ride quality is much better and not to mention you can adjust the ride height.

[H22turbolude]

coilovers for sure