yes Nissan spent ages balancing the car then made it softer for Euroland roads, but hey I have a JDM
the guy that designed it said "10mm is the maximum reduction it can take without modification" so i tend to believe him. How do i know? Via Mines and a article they both wrote and discussed with me in Japan. Mines then modded the Eibach springs to suppress the noise they make for their solution, which has...... 10mm drop
Of course I would of had a re-alignment after fitment?? but I don't need to change other bits to do this I have changed the suspension on most of toy cars anyway, go more than 30mm on a r33 and you need different bits
it does not understeer more with this mod but if it did I would have put wider front tyres on if it did
I'm sure the car can be lowered 10mm without major change in geometry, but what I'm saying is that the car may take on a handling characteristic which you can do nothing about. The front and rear ride heights are one of the biggest tools you have when changing the balance of the car, and you will be accepting a simple 10mm drop front and rear which you cannot fine tune. It will do what it does, and that's that. Asthetically I'm sure it's nice, but from a handling point of view, a car so heavily developed will need more to see an actual benefit IMO.
Lowering springs have their place - mainly when trying to improve the handling of a town car. For this car though, my opinion is - do it properly or not at all.:smokin:
Although it's going off the point slightly, wider front tyres would not give you more tyre on the road, so you would still be understeering in the above case.