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As some of you know I've been driving a Micra for a few weeks now, and am somewhat enjoying its fuel economy.

Anyway, decided to take the Silvia out last night, as I'm removing some bits off of it at the weekend.

I was amazed at how fucking well this car handles. Looks like I got used to it in the past, but from walking into it after a few weeks of no use I was amazed,

First thing that shocked me was the feel of the steering and its absolutely brilliant turn in and grip round bends.

So boys and girls get ya fingers out ya arses and improve your cars ability by wacking together some coilovers with adjustable top mounts, and wack the tops in for the camber.

lol, martin are you feeling ok, sit down and take your temperature, i don't believe what your saying lol:p :D .i'd like to do coilovers, but someone said that the firm that does the do it yourself bits had gone bust.

I'll drive it after putting standard stuff back on the front with SE lowering springs and we'll see what the difference is.

There's about 3 places to get the stuff from...

i've been driving my mk2 auto:ghey , there's no power and it kangeroo's on kickdown:trout , there's nowt done to the car at all, but it gets me out of sticky situations, who does the coilovers ?

These are non weldable ones:
http://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/produc...T&pcode=RIX031

Springs:
http://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/produc...de=AVU2255-100

Rally deisgn:

http://www.rallydesign.co.uk/catalog...cPath=1358_532

sound job:) .

i need to do something to mine, cos it wallows about far too much:(

Same here! :(

PS - 30psi - Cheers for the links! :D - How easy is is to install/mod these, or are they straight-on items mate?

Cheers,


Den.

i think we should get them done at a simular time den, then we will know we have got everything the same:) .

Sounds good to me mate :) - Though it'll probably be you doing the techie stuff again! :D

Cheers!

Sounds good to me mate :) - Though it'll probably be you doing the techie stuff again! :D

Cheers!

:D ,lol, its good to hear that your beastie is running good again matey:cool:

strutt brace is next on my list....

Claires got a photo of you in your micra i think martin.I have yet to laugh at it.....Dont worry i wont upload it unless you dont mind?

Check out those drifting wheels....all he needs now is some Maccy D trays to put underneath his back wheels :D

Sorry Martin I had to post the picture, it takes real guts to drive around in a car like that :p ;)

http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/4394/maggypieqm5.jpg

atleast its a jap car ive been driving a rover 100 for the past 18months

That car of mine is crap. But its doing 45mpg so I'm happy with it whilst I'm getting my hands dirty on other stuff. Haven't you got a better res version of the pic?

Anyway coilovers:

I stipped the coilovers and took a pic for all you to see what parts you need. Any questions, just ask.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...2coilover1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...2coilover2.jpg

Cheers Martin - that helps visualise what's required! :)

Gotta go shopping for bits soon methinks... :D

ok martin, is the threaded tube welded at the very top where the internal threads are that hold the insert in ? and how long are the threaded tubes ? cheers.

The tube is welded at the bottom of the threaded tube. I guess the tube is about 9" long

is it welded to the left over spring cup that has'nt been ground off ? oh yeah martin, have you any idea on the spring rating and is their a specific spring lenght that i order, cheers.

The old cup is completely ground off. Just slide the tube on and weld round the bottom. You can see where the white paint stops.

It don't matter what length spring you use as you just move the collar up or down to suit. You can see mine is half way down, so I could use a shorter spring and move the collar up. They're 325lb springs

cheers martin.

Did 325lb springs work well for you Martin?