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Originally Posted by Nismo180
I could see alot of drama unfolded in this thread regardless of my disclaimer, but I suppose it was unavoidable. Anyway, not corner weighting a car with variable height adjsutments is like not checking piston ring gap before throwing them in. A set of coilovers that "look" right, but aren't actually at their proper riding height because no one bothered to tune them right can be unpredictable and handle mush worse than any stock setup. Also, even entry level coilo-overs will be designed to have optimum dampening in a stroke much shorter and lower than stock. After many years working with and driving high performace cars I just couldn't bring myself to throw on a peice of equipment like that and not use it to it's full advantage.
This as opposed to some of my old cars and my upcoming 240Z project is a daily driven street car that has to make it up driveways and over cobblestone roads without massaging my ass numb. I am going for a "factory performance" kind of ride, the very reason I'm so into Nismo. Their mods seem to maintain day to day livabilty with factory reliabilty and yet still a certain level of performance you can't just buy in a car. The reason I asked for spring rates is because I've done some weight adjustments, and want to make sure the spring rates would reflect that. And, 296, and 218.4 sounds like fun to me.
Drift Freaq - I'd argue with you that Nismo's intentions with their less race oriented mods is one of a factory performance veiw point. They want the cars to perform better without any large sacrifices. Higher durometer bushings will make a difference, but you also won't risk suspension bind, or feel every single little lump. yeah, there are stiffer motor mounts but the Nismo's won't shake your teeth out. Just a more relaxed aproach to tuning, but their isn't much interest out there for a faster yet still cofortable 240sx, at least not as much as there is for the 350Z
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That IS exactly my point. I've been thinking for a long time about which suspension to go with (entry level coilover or Nismo S-tune) and I decided to go with Nismo becouse of few reasons. First, my car is a daily driver (no drifting, no autocrossing, OCCASIONAL trips to tracks like Nurburgring etc.) so I don't need any kind of adjustments for my suspension. Secondly, the roads in my country are in very poor condition so coilover suspensions don't keep their settings for longer than a week on this roads (you have to set everything from scratch). And I know that coilover that is set up wrong is worse than a standard suspension in terms of driving. This is another thing why I don't need any kind of height- dampening- camber- etc. adjustments becouse everything will be screwed up after few days anyway.
Nismo S-tune AFAIK, is the only non-adjustable suspension on the market for s14 which springs and shocks were matched to work together. It's been proved to be solid (for so many years), it's perfectly compromised between daily driving and sport and it drops the car so little (30mm front, 15mm rear) that you don't have to worry about camber corrections etc. or city driving. It's a hassle free plug and play unit.
Sorry but in my case I don't see ANY pros for buying a coilover setup and any cons of buying the S-tune.