mossy74

The ride was harsh a bit harsh with the 16's and they looked a bit big from some angles, very happy with the 15inch watanabes.

Thats my car, the above picture is when the resto was completed with 16x8 wats on 225/45/16 tyres, its now on 15x8 0 offset wats and 225/50/15 tyres

Tyres are 225/50 toyo proxes 4.

Yep I sold them, very happy with the 15's though!

Just changed out my watanabes from 16x8 to 15x8

i understand what your saying now Jon, I've had the poly stops before too and i remember when you hit them its more of a loud bang. I'll give this setup a trial run and see how it feels.

ok so just an update on what I think i might try, pillowballs are out as I think they might be a little too noisy for a street car, so I have raised the car a bit, its 6 inches from the ground to the rocker pichweld, front and back, travel is around 25m front and 35mm back. I can try and get more front travel by sectioning the front again and using some koni mr2 8641-1142 shocks and also ditching the koni foam bumpstops and replacing them with 25mm poly bumpstops, any suggestions?

I think i'm going to go with some fixed pillowball mounts, the ones listed below from japan also have an coilover hat option with some sort of rubber to reduce noise, whether it works or not is to be found out! http://www.fine-auto-service.com/pillowupper/index.html

Is there a lot more noise transferred into the cabin when using these?

Thanks I will check them out.

Thanks for the info guys, I will raise the car a little but I'm also thinking of changing the stock isolators out for some fixed pillowball mounts from japan which from what I've read should give me some more bump back. (Bump stops are 45mm) http://www.fine-auto-service.com/pillowupper/index.html

I will probably raise slightly Tony but I'm hoping to keep it around its current height, I actually didn't think it looked too low so I was suprised at the travel. My last coilovers were done the same as the strut sectioning FAQ with the illuiminas and same springs except they were 225/250 pd springs, I thought maybe the stiffer springs gave me a bit more travel as they didn't compress as much.

I've just converted my struts on my 240z to coilovers using koni yellows part 8641-1060 (300zx), front and rear were sectioned 24mm and using eibach 2.5 ID 10 inch springs, 200pds rear and 175 front with koni foam bumpstops. The problem I seem to have is the travel, the fronts look to have maybe 10mm of travel before hitting the bumpstop and the rear would be around 20mm, not sure what is wrong here, maybe the springs are sagging more as they are soft?

I now have a set of 8641-1060 koni yellows and I'm trying to decide which way im heading with springs (coilover or factory type lowered spring) and sectioning. I've got an approx length of the koni yellow shock body and that seems to be around 362mm, the 240z stock strut height (inner from dished bottom to lip) front approx 385mm and rear 425mm. This will be a road only car, no track work. First question is whether to go with king lows springs or coilover springs like I have had before but much softer for the street, if I go with the eibach coilover springs I was thinking 200pds rear and 175 front (compared to 250/225 i had before) I have to admit I do like the option of being able to raise or lower the car when I want or to the exact height I want. Second question is whether to section or not, there is plenty of room for sectioning in the rear but the front looks to be limited to max 20mm, so no spacer underneath. Suspension experts give me your thoughts!

I have the tokicos on 1 with factory strut tops

So I've been trying to work out why my sectioned struts why my Tokico Ilumina BZ3099 and BZ3015 Inserts and 225/250 lbs springs rides so rough on the road with ES bumpstops, from the reading I've done it looks like I needed a progessive bump stop like the koni ones (just bought some) so its a smooth transition from travel to hitting the stop. My question is since these compress quite a lot compared to the poly ones which I take don't move at all, will I need some sort of delrin spacer on the gland nut to stop the struts destroying themselves in case I hit a big bump?

Thanks

How much travel are you guys getting out of your coilovers, I sectioned mine using strut sectioning FAQ with the Tokico Ilumina BZ3099 and BZ3015 Inserts, I did a rough measurement with the car sitting on the ground from the gland nut to the shortened bumpstop and I've got about 2.5in in the front and about 2in in the rear, doesn't sound like much to me?

I didn't realize the tokicos were hard to get now but if you used the strut sectioning as in the FAQ section couldn't you just use the koni sport mr2 equivilent to the BZ3099.

Yes

I had the rears rolled only just as a precaution.

Wheels are watanabe 16x8 0 offset with 225/45 tyres Not sure what bumper it was but it definetely wasn't going back on the car Engine is a PMC built 2.8 with triple OER 45's, good pickup on the correct colour!

I bought a brand new license panel light from Nissan and had my paint shop colour match it.

Here's my 71, resto over 3 or so years went from this to this

Watanabe type r 16x8 0 offset, tyres 225/45/16