Nismo Coilover Drop Pics

Just posting some pics for those interested. Here is my car after my Nismo Coilover Install.

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illinois huh. which part. maybe a meet up when all the snow disappears.

i like the drop. how does it ride differently than stock?

illinois huh. which part. maybe a meet up when all the snow disappears.

i like the drop. how does it ride differently than stock?

Sounds cool, I live about 15-20 minutes from St. Louis in Godfrey/Alton Illinois area. It handles like it's on rails and it honestly rides better than when I had my stock setup. I'm very happy with it.

BTW: That picture was taken by the bluffs a few yards from the Great River Road... it's always rated as 1 or 2 in magazines as one of the Best River roads in the US. It gradually twists and turns around the Mississippi and gives you plenty of room to open it up or max out your car. It's an awesome 4 lane road than spans for miles, about 3 minutes from my house. Bluffs on one side, river on the other. It's a neat experience.

nice nice. looks like it was supposed to come like that. that plus ride quality is how you tell a good street coil/spring setup.

nice nice. looks like it was supposed to come like that. that plus ride quality is how you tell a good street coil/spring setup.

Thank you, sir.

Hi,

I'm kind of new on this car, are you using the same old shocks or you changed the Shocks + the Coilovers?....and sorry for the question, I had a 92 prelude before and I had on it tokicos shocks and springs, which were great!, I'm trying to adjust my Sentra SE 01 to act like my old lude jejej...I have heard that coilovers makes your car jump like a boat when you pass a speed bump jeje...correct me if i'm wrong :-)

Thank you for your help i'm going to start to work on my Sentra..i'm fallin in love with it jejeje..

i dont know what jejejje means but...
first of all you should define what you mean by coilovers. these are coilovers
http://www.splparts.com/Parts/SilviaShared/Suspension/Coilovers/KTSCoilovers.jpg
coilovers dont make your car do something you dont want it to do because they are fully adjustable


these are NOT coilovers.
http://www.tenzoracingsports.com/suspension/coilovers/big_coilovers.jpg

these are called sleeve overs and suck more dick than a homeless hooker.
this is probably where you heard they give your car the ricer bounce.



also this is all moot because your prelude has a much better suspension than a sentra, and it will be more than hard to make your sentra handle like a prelude.

that said, you can do something with a sentra suspension, just dont drop it too far, and keep the springs/shocks/sway bars somewhat similar to each other as far as stiffness/control is concerned.

these are called sleeve overs and suck more dick than a homeless hooker.
this is probably where you heard they give your car the ricer bounce.



I always look forward to your replies, slideways. :)

My Nismo's weren't adjustable, btw. Not all coilovers are.

I know he has a 1.8, but I thought a spec could outhandle a prelude?

thanks for your reply slideways, yeah I had the wrong ideas about coilovers then, I thought the "dick suckers" ejje..were the coilovers, I got it. Those are what kids usually use to drop their civics and you can see them bouncing like boat on the highway lol.

And for ProZach626, don't get me wrong but the prelude and spec for me are two different cars, In my opinion you can't compare the prelude's handle with a spec. I like sentras now, but prelude are glued to the road. lol....I gotta try a spec with the wet road and see what happen...but thanks also for your opinion.

idk about a 1.8 or an SE, but the spec v sentra will give a prelude all it can handle, esp with wider than stock tires

nah teh nismo suspension you got is technically just a spring/shock combo. which is 10,000 times better than sleeve overs or lowering springs on stock struts.

btw a properly set up prelude will always outhandle a sentra.

its just the nature of it all.
prelude has double wishbones front and back, a sentra has mcpherson struts in front, which arent horrible, but arent great either. and the sentra has torsion bar rear suspension, which was created for minivans as a slight step up over leaf springs. sentras can handle, but the prelude's limits will always be higher.

road course = I Win

How much would be a good deal on a nismo suspension kit for a 01 Sentra SE?...I have seeing deals on ebay for almost $750...any idea?..thanks guys

meh it would be just as good to grab some koni dampers and some eibach springs, its basicly the same thing only like 500 dollars cheaper, if you can find a deal on the nismos for like 5-600 they might be worth it as they are plug and play, you dont need a spring compressor or anything to install them, they just bolt right up

and the prelude runs the slalom 3 mph slower than the spec v at 60.2 mph as well as being .84 rather than .89 on the skidpad like the sentra is, porsche and bmw use macpherson strut setups from the factory and although there are probably better setups out there i like my rear beam, i can get it to dog leg every now and then if i take a corner just right. point of story, driver matters more than your setup but it can help, i think i could squeeze a bit more than 63mph out of the slalom even on stock tires and suspension so my numbers would be even better than the test numbers, mod your prelude, go on, do eeet........

sentras can handle, but the prelude's limits will always be higher.


if you want to compare apples to apples the prelude sh does the skidpad at .89 which ties the spec v, but that hardly proves that its limits are higher, and those numbers are with stock tires. a se or even a regular se-r will probably get spanked but the spec will get it, especially in auto x where the preludes lack of torque gets it creamed, and on a road course where it gets creamed again because its 200lbs heavier than the spec.......i dont know why people rag on the specs so much, or maybe their just ragging on the base model in which case i shouldnt get offended but they are a much better performing car than people give them credit for

no dont get me wrong, specs are fine. im just comparing suspension. its just fact, double wishbones are much much better than mcpherson/torsion beam suspension. why do you think ferraris and such use double wishbones? any other difference between the cars has to do with power, weight, and chassis stiffness and dynamics.

lower cars do better with mcphersons but its hard to lower them and get them to work right, just about every car porsche makes uses mcstruts but they are tuned up pretty good

I'll take my Nismo Coilovers...

lol yeah you cant beat the fit and finish of factory sponsored stuff, plus you dont have to worry about blowing your hand off with a spring compressor trying to get your eibachs on your struts or whatnot

its as simple as this. you see hondas with mad negative camber that are dropped? thats because they have double wishbones. double wishbones will add negative camber under compressed suspension. this keeps the majority of the tire patch under the same amount of load at all times. mcpehrsons dont do this, so under compression travel the load is acting more on the outside of the tire than the inside, effectively reducing the useable contact patch. this is all under stock suspension geometry so you can raise the wishbone mount points to lower the shit out of a honda without affecting camber. likewise, adding negative camber on a strut car will make it handle better, but its a comprimise because the tire will not camber in or out depending on how compressed it is.

true but we were talking about stock, of course you can mod cars to handle better and you can lower the spec by fabbing new shock mounts to maintin current camber and travel and still lose 1.5 inches of height for cheaper than buying new springs and dampers, but i was referring more to stock handling performance