Eibach's but what about struts and shocks?

A General Discussion forum for Altima owners, and a great place to introduce yourself if you are new to the NICOclub Altima Forums!
User avatar
Ricko
Posts: 909
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 4:56 pm
Car: 2008 Altima Coupe
Location: San Diego
Contact:

Post

So word is about 6 months to a year after Eibachs installed, you may need to upgrade the struts and shocks.

Any recommendations?

Want to keep it on a budget, but defiantly good quality. Nothing track rated


User avatar
mcheddadi
Posts: 6666
Joined: Thu May 17, 2007 2:24 pm
Car: R8

Post

Ricko wrote:So word is about 6 months to a year after Eibachs installed, you may need to upgrade the struts and shocks.

Any recommendations?

Want to keep it on a budget, but defiantly good quality. Nothing track rated
My eibacks killed my dampers lol, but now it's been 1 years and two winters, good thing i'm getting the BC coilovers lol.

there isn't any aftermart dampers yet but you could get ones from a diff nissan to fit.

User avatar
headhunt3r
Posts: 867
Joined: Sun May 04, 2008 6:45 pm
Car: Altima Coupe 2.5S w/ CVT
Location: Vancouver BC

Post

What, why am I only reading this now, that the Eibachs kills the struts?

User avatar
mcheddadi
Posts: 6666
Joined: Thu May 17, 2007 2:24 pm
Car: R8

Post

headhunt3r wrote:What, why am I only reading this now, that the Eibachs kills the struts?
well they definitely shorten the life of the dampers. mine sound soo squishy on the rebounds and they are getting noisy.

User avatar
dangeris
Posts: 5139
Joined: Wed Sep 19, 2007 6:18 pm
Car: 08 Code Red 3.5
08 BMW 328xi Coupe
90 300ZX 2+0 NA
Location: Lansdale PA
Contact:

Post

I've had mine for over a year and my shocks and struts are still good. No noise or creaking what so ever

User avatar
Beak
Posts: 438
Joined: Thu Jan 10, 2008 5:22 pm
Car: 08 Coupe VQ
Location: Texas

Post

right.... they still work and have not been damaged. but come on man i want better shocks. im sure you feel me on this. shizz id be happy with something basic like Blues. we need to push for some shocks.

User avatar
Beak
Posts: 438
Joined: Thu Jan 10, 2008 5:22 pm
Car: 08 Coupe VQ
Location: Texas

Post

mcheddadi wrote:

My eibacks killed my dampers lol, but now it's been 1 years and two winters, good thing i'm getting the BC coilovers lol.

there isn't any aftermart dampers yet but you could get ones from a diff nissan to fit.
Example plz?

User avatar
mcheddadi
Posts: 6666
Joined: Thu May 17, 2007 2:24 pm
Car: R8

Post

Beak wrote:
Example plz?
dunno lol, something like this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...ories

User avatar
Loop
Posts: 1246
Joined: Sat Nov 03, 2007 8:12 pm
Car: only nissan cars
Location: somewhere in socal

Post

I have a contact at Tokico. Which I contacted him back in 07 and at that time they didn't have plans. Since the car is a bit older, they make take consideration. I would contact them to start building interest.

User avatar
Beak
Posts: 438
Joined: Thu Jan 10, 2008 5:22 pm
Car: 08 Coupe VQ
Location: Texas

Post

dude that would be awsome. i see u kinda got the connects. let me know what you cn do. i would love my car 100x more with some blues. thanks bro.

erick.s
Posts: 80
Joined: Wed May 20, 2009 8:38 am
Car: 2008 Altima 3.5SE Coupe

Post

That's the one thing that has surprised me about the aftermarket support for this car. How can you have lowering springs without proper dampers? It makes absolutely no sense. The quickest way to destroy a stock damper is to use them with lowering springs. They may hold up for a little while, but in the long run you're looking at trouble. I've seen it happen so many times on so many different cars that I'm surprised anyone would bother replacing springs without dampers.

User avatar
mcheddadi
Posts: 6666
Joined: Thu May 17, 2007 2:24 pm
Car: R8

Post

Beak wrote:dude that would be awsome. i see u kinda got the connects. let me know what you cn do. i would love my car 100x more with some blues. thanks bro.
why the blues in particular? they are better than the yellows?

User avatar
Beak
Posts: 438
Joined: Thu Jan 10, 2008 5:22 pm
Car: 08 Coupe VQ
Location: Texas

Post

not really. yellows are awesome as well; just an example. however every g/z i rode in with tociko blues had great dampening. im looking for a slight up in performance, but i dun want to go as far as coilovers for daily driving.


Return to “Altima General Discussions”