Have any of you B14 lovers installed the JIC coilovers? What's you thoughts on them? If not anyone familiar with these? Will I need camber plates if I decide to get either one? Any tips on istall? Thanks :p Joel

If the JIC's are adjustable and have a shorter body get the JIC's. Make that decesion and then work out the detials of the install. Suspension travel is very important on a lowered car.

Steve

ya, I have been wanting to try out a set on my car, but I am kinda broke right now :(

Brian! I've been busy, yo ;) Got the big injectors and ECU in. Turbo goes on soon as I can get to it.

Re the post:

I had the Groundcontrol kit with 300/200, GC camber plates, GC bumpstops, and KYB/AGX on my B14. What a friggin' noisy POS pain the a$$. I had them adjusted to prokit height (1 1/4" drop)and they would bottom out all the time. Hard. Real hard. I had to grease them all the time and be carefull when lowering the car or squash the bearing. What a pain!

I sold that GC crap and bought a used set of Eibach Prokit springs off a board member for $100. The dude even sent his OEM struts, shocks and rubber, which was sweet 'cause mine were toast. Fringgin' best $100 I ever spent. They ride great and look good.

Eibach springs = professional engineering.

Cheers,
Charlie:)

I have just the opposite reaction to the GCs. True, you have to hold the spring in place when lower the car, but the ride quality is tons better. I have 325/325, lowered 1 1/2 front and 1/2 rear. Every now and then, I clean the dirt off the lower perch, and I do get some spring noise while turning, but its not that bad. I used the duct tape method instead of the rubber O rings.

Originally posted by CharlieH98
Eibach springs = professional engineering.


the springs in the ground control's are made by eibach:p
http://www.ground-control.com/gcfaq.htm


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Originally posted by 200sx-97-SE-R


the springs in the ground control's are made by eibach:p
http://www.ground-control.com/gcfaq.htm


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Yea thats what I was gonna say,but he beat me too it... if you run the correct settings and what not. Ive heard GC is actually really really good. And if you set it up incorrect or any slight thing wrong. It will actually ride like shit, but... Everyone has his/her opinions.

Originally posted by CharlieH98
Brian! I've been busy, yo ;) Got the big injectors and ECU in. Turbo goes on soon as I can get to it.

Re the post:

I had the Groundcontrol kit with 300/200, GC camber plates, GC bumpstops, and KYB/AGX on my B14. What a friggin' noisy POS pain the a$$. I had them adjusted to prokit height (1 1/4" drop)and they would bottom out all the time. Hard. Real hard. I had to grease them all the time and be carefull when lowering the car or squash the bearing. What a pain!

Cheers,
Charlie:)

I hate to tell you this put your car was too high. You wern't bottoming out the strut you were coil binding the spring. With that setup you need a 10 inch spring and a costom perch to get a 1.25 drop. If you had gone to a 1.75 or maybe 2 inch drop you would have solved your problem. Noise is also solved with some adjustment to the install. It will always make a little more then stock because you eliminated all the rubber around the spring. Most of the time mine are quiet, occassionaly a little sound from the spring moving.

Steve

Sure the GC springs are made by Eibach....sheesh....the damn things say Eibach right on them.

10" spring and custom perch? Mo money Mo money Mo money. Yes, 10" spring would be nice, but the kit comes with 8". I disagree on the bottoming out, unless you go with a 400# spring up front.

This is an AutoX thread. On a street car spend the money on boost!

Now, if we could get Koni to shorten the inserts. Or find a shorter Koni insert from another model car we could shorten the OEM struts and drop it right.

Cheers,
Charlie:)

Originally posted by CharlieH98
Sure the GC springs are made by Eibach....sheesh....the damn things say Eibach right on them.

10" spring and custom perch? Mo money Mo money Mo money. Yes, 10" spring would be nice, but the kit comes with 8". I disagree on the bottoming out, unless you go with a 400# spring up front.

This is an AutoX thread. On a street car spend the money on boost!

Now, if we could get Koni to shorten the inserts. Or find a shorter Koni insert from another model car we could shorten the OEM struts and drop it right.

Cheers,
Charlie:)

I got perch for free from Ground Control. The spring was switched out for free twice until it was right. Welding the perch on cost about 20 bucks. The key was telling ground control what I wanted and then when they delivered a kit that didn't give me what they promised, asking them to fix it nicely. They did it every time with no complaint. Good service. If you had the eight inch spring all you needed to do was set the front lower. You can get a good ride on the 8 inch spring.

Steve

I had installed Tanabe Sustec Pro S-S on my 95' 200SX SE-R to replace my Gab/Eibach combo. This set is originally desighed for Taiwan spec. B14 & B15(GA16DE & QG18DE), fully adjustable, probably can only be found in my country. I think this is the best choice so far. If any of you interested, pls let me know.