Silvia Coilovers (nicked from club-s12) !!!

northerner · #1 17-05-2006, 22:22

Was looking around their site and found this thread !

Fronts
http://www.club-s12.org/forum/showth...3&page=3&pp=15
Rears
http://www.redz31.com/pages/coilover.setups.html

PukkaSilvia · #2 18-05-2006, 08:32

Martins front coilovers are similar to those fronts at a fraction of the cost

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s13eater · #3 13-09-2006, 16:27

hmm, can't see the page yet, but to do the coilovers it comes to £73 from rally design, springs are £15 each and the threaded tubes, spring seat, locking plate and cup for the top is, £21.50 each side.

30psi · #4 13-09-2006, 16:39

Prices have come down, used to be £104 for the lot

s13eater · #5 13-09-2006, 16:42

i suppose thats still cheap to do your own coilovers.

30psi · #6 13-09-2006, 16:43

Well yeh, its best to get decent shocks though for the best benefit. It will be too bouncy otherwise

Camber tops are a preference as well in my opinion

s13eater · #7 13-09-2006, 18:04

i'am gonna do pillow ball mounts, i had new kyb's in last year

on the blue one front and rear.

Magnum · #8 13-09-2006, 23:17

Find the link for Club S12 again, I like to see what your talking about.

Nebuchernezzer · #9 14-09-2006, 07:21

Basically it's easy to put S13, S14 or S15 front coilovers in the front of an S12.
The camber tops that almost all jap coilovers come with bolt straight into the S12 body and if you use S13 gear you can drop the S13 hub/spindle straight onto the S12 ball joint to join it all together. You will need to swap to S13 tie rods as well, they may have to be threaded slightly longer and perhaps have 5mm cut off them to fit with the S12 control arms (shorter then S13).
Alternatively you can use S13 control arms as well (25mm or so longer then S12) then you shouldn't have to touch the S13 tie rods however you will need to use an R31 castor rod or redrill the arm to suit the S12 rods (which i don't recommend due to the holes being so close together after you do that).
Or if you want to go even wider you can use S14/15 control arms, tie rods and coilovers. The S14/15 arms are an additional 25mm wider then the S13 ones so your track is starting to look pretty mean by now. The S14 coilover and hub/knuckle bolt together with larger bolts then the S13 ones but you can make S13 coilovers fit S14/15 hub/knuckles by drilling the holes in the coilover out or alternatively by making a sleave for the hub/knuckle part to take the smaller bolts the S13 coilovers use.
Brake options are whatever fits an S13/14/15 so CA brakes, SR brakes, 4 pots or GTR brembos etc.
That's about it really, oh yeah S14/15 front coilovers are apparently slightly taller then S13 ones and suit the S12 better, S13 ones often have to be wound up quite high which might be a bit of a problem if they only have preload adjustment and not true height adjustment.

30psi · #10 14-09-2006, 09:53

Yeh it is easy to do S13 coilovers.

I made these up by the way:

I've got S13 coilovers now. The only thing I havent looked into is the tie rod ends.

Are the S13 tie rod ends longer or shorter than the S12 ones?

If you use the S13 and S14 lower arms, you won't be able to adjust out the negative camber that this will create. Will make it look good though.