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    dont do it

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    just get fender braces.... if you think about it, the only support between all the force going into the top of the struts to the rest of the car is some sheet metal... infact, make sure your braces are bloody good, bolt on shit imho is fail... i may be wrong, but yeh.

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    +1 for welding on

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    well i went and bought 9 meters of 65x35x3 square bar today and 1 meter of flat bar will make fender brace, strut brace and boot brace all weld in, and getting urethane foam for the frame... should fix the body flex a bit

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    go 9kg instead!

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    Geez the silvia guys run 12kg and 15kg springs quite regularly, i can only imagine the result of street driving.

    I like the 6kg front and 6kg rear for a hachi, tried a few setups and best all round street/track imo.

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    Rob has had 9kg front springs for the last 2/3 years, no bendage

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    no thats right, the spring rate by itself isnt enough to bend the frame... when i bought these coilovers, they didnt come with the adjusters and someone had set the shox to max, so there was virtually no movement... i have since got a hold of some adjusters, set the shox back to about 7 out of 25 for daily driving, and although i wouldnt use this setting for drifting it works for daily driving. still very stiff and causing trouble for the shell. hits bumps with a crash instead of a nice thump

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    WOWZERS! mad bit of bendage

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    Face Palm.... Half you guys are better off running 2x4 blocks of wood...


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