Adam393

Looks great! What do u have planned for it?

Great vid! Nice to see the project back up and running!

Hoshino Impul Pro Mesh 15x6.5:

My dad just called to tell me he picked it up from the suspension place, and says the difference is night and day with the new ST Springs. He said it also doesnt sit as low as the Tokicos did . He didnt like driving the Z at all before, and now he's probably going to use it alot now that it drives better, and im away at college. The guy also said we had some things loose and tightened them back up, but they weren't the reason the springs were doing badly. My break begins next tues , so ill give my impressions once i have a chance to drive it next week

Great write up, ive been trying to figure out how to do this forever!

I talked to my dad n he said we put it in the back anyways. He said we definitely didnt put any spacers in anywhere. We still havent figured it out, so were just going to put on different springs, the guys at Tokico were complete assholes and were unwilling to help us.

Im pretty sure that we didnt put any spacer in it, but two of the shocks had metal tubes welded on under the shocks. I hate to sound ignorant, but since we installed them last year, i forget which end we put them on. Id have to call my father in the morning to ask him if he remembers. But the shocks all looked like they basically went up to that flat bolt you had to screw over on the top of the strut (The one to help prevent all the oil from spilling out)

My dad was telling them about this problem and they just blew us off, they didnt want to come to terms with the fact that we DO have a problem. Hopefully your conversation went better

In my first post i mentioned that they were sending me Tein springs, they screwed up and meant to say Tokico, but I never recieved them So as of last week I bought Suspension Technique springs, theyre supposedly a bit more stiff than Eibach (not to mention cheaper ) So i should be getting them soon and getting them installed, ill post if that solves the problem

Im not sure, we threw the boxes away a long time ago. Would they be anywhere externally? (without having to take them out)

How do u get a pic like that? Looks great BTW

We have no little sound deadening since the floors were replaced and we didnt put any material on the new ones. We have no AC, we only put in two new kenwood speakers in the trunk area, and a new head unit, also we removed the overriders. There is nothing new under the hood that should be adding weight

Post more pics!!!

God i love 510's, looks great so far, good luck with the build!

I had a moment akin to the first Fast and the Furious. I wasnt in the Z, but i was screwing around with some kid in a riced out Focus sedan with NOS, and i floor it on the highway (at night, it was virtually deserted) and i gain about 1.5 cars on him before i shut down. So of course he does the ricer fly-by on me (at that point we were still going pretty fast, so its obvious he was using his NOS) lo-and-behold after hes about 2 cars in front of me i see a huge plum of smoke come out of his engine bay, and he swerves from the left lane to the exit lane. The next day, i was looking at my car since i thought i that some tar had gotten on the hood and bumper, but when i went to wipe it off, it was engine oil all over the front of the car from the Focus:lol:

Not that the car is going anywhere soon, but a future owner might be quite surprised to see that the paint really isnt as good as it looked 10 ft ago...

I understand what you guys are saying about them being progressive springs, but we called Tokico and they said we should have about 1/4" to 1/2" of travel between each coil in the spring. In the rear we do, but in the front we have about 1/8" of travel between each coil and the top 4 coils are touching, which only leaves us about 7/8" of suspension travel in the front of the car. Our suspension guy, who is an ex- F1 mechanic mind you, says that all the progressive coils that he's seen before are slightly thinner on one side than the other, but he says that these are the same diameter throughout. Im not sure how big of a deal that is, but thats what he told my dad and I. Here are some pix to show our problem: Here is the rear for comparison, which is correct:

Our suspension guy mentioned that we might need to get the struts shortened; he didnt think there is enough travel the way they are now. As for the Teins, im not sure of the specifics on them, ill check what they are when they arrive

Ever since the Z was finished with the restoration, whenever we took it on the highway, i felt really unstable and weaved alot (yes, we had the suspension all aligned and wheels balanced and everything, all by a highly experienced suspension guy). Well, we go back to our suspension guy our problem and we put it on the lift to check the suspension. This was a drive on lift and we checked the shocks and springs. We were quite shocked to see that our suspension was coil bound in the front. The top 4 coils were all compressed and touching, and the shocks were too tall and had very little travel before they would bottom out. Now remember, this is the Tokico Illuminas setup, which many Z people have, and i strongly recommend people to check for this problem on their Z's, but u wont be able to tell if its coil bound if u jack up the car, u need a ramp of some sort or a drive on lift. We called ProStreetOnline and they recently discontinued selling Tokico springs for any car, but they were very nice and are sending us 2 free Tein springs to see if that will hep us at all. Has any one else had this problem?