Raising Suspension back
 

Hello to everyone,
This is my first post here....I just bought a preowned 2009 Nissan 370Z with sports package. The previous owner has lowered the suspension so that the ground clearance is ~ 3". Although it looks good but I have a hard time in city driving, especially on bumps/ditches/side streets. Sometimes it would literally hit my car. So I was wondering how can I raise the suspension, and how much should I raise it?

I went to the dealership and they are asking ~$3000 for it?????? Thats really not the kinda money I had in mind...

Please help.

Regards,
AD

excuse me? $3k for raise the suspension. Do you have coilovers or suspension?

I'm guessing you don't have coilovers being that they quoted you that price. Probably priced you out for all new suspension components. You may want to see if you can buy a set of stock shocks and springs.

3k... hahahaha. :D

Do a wtb ad in the forsale section for stock springs. Im sure there are many people with them laying around.

almost sh!t my pants when I heard 3k

best bet is take it to a good shop, maybe some of the houston guys can recommend something. they should help you locate maybe a nismo spring/strut package and install em. heck maybe you just need springs.

I guess I'll beat the Dreamer to it.

Give Baker Tuning a call. :)

:iagree: I heard good things about Baker Tuning.

Lol $3k. I hate dealerships. Why?

You can get coilovers, sways and camber arms for that much.

Get some stock springs and some aftermarket shocks and have them installed. I have a set of stock springs for sale if interested.

The problem is that a shop will charge you around $500 for the labor alone....

Thank you all. So I looked at my car suspension and I can see that rear shock is KW 860 1101. I am guessing that I have coilovers. I have to find out somehow which version of KW do I have exactly...can't really see the front struts/springs very well..

So given that I have coil-overs (I will post as soon as I confirm this), what all do I need to get done: height adjustment --> then corner weighing --> then wheel alignment?

Should I schedule a service for these three things? Are all needed or can I skip something?

Regards,

If you have KW the only thing they make for our car is coil-overs, and with that being said it is just an allen key to adjust them, you need to jack/lift the car pull the wheels off and adjust each one to match, if you do 5 full rotations up on one side then the other should apply along with front and rear then drive a bit and adjust to your liking, and then corner balance, and alignment.

Im not sure what size the allen key is i think it is a 1.5mm but maybe someone can correct me on that.

If you want to go back to stock, I have a full set- struts, shocks, springs.

Give Baker Tuning (Baker Nissan) a call and ask for Paul Morgan. Tell him what you want to do and what is already done to the car, he should be able to get you setup with something better than 3k. Really it should be about 1 hour of work to just adjust all four corners and then have you drive it for a week and come back for an alignment.

^ haha. I beat you to it but you actually know what you're talking about. :)

My first choice was Baker Nissan South. They are the ones who gave me the quote of $3K. I was in contact with Service Rep Damean...He said that because the parts are not Nissan, their techs will not touch it and all they can do at this point is to bring it back to factory and that would cost $3K. At that point, I had no option but to search for alternate resources. I will try to call Paul Morgan (Baker South or North?). Any other shops you know in Houston that work on 370Zs? How much should it cost (its better if I have an idea before going there again)...

Also, right now I measured the clearance to be close to 3". I am thinking one inch more should make it drivable for regular city driving. Is there any height recommended? I would still wanna have the KWs on my car...of course they are known to be better than factory parts..

Just ask a local shop to raise the height and dampering to stock settings.

I believe Baker Tuning is at/near Baker Nissan North. Might be wrong. Call the north location and ask for the guy The Dreamer mentioned. I hear they are very very tuner and aftermarket friendly. You can also call Carboy and speak to Jackie. I've had good experience with them. Not sure what they'll charge you at either location but it shouldn't be the arm Baker South is demanding.

There is NO reason to send the car back to the factory.

QUESTION Can I get coil overs without lowering the car at all? I have bad knees that are not bothered at current height, while the stock 300 ZX height was too low (for my knees). Thank you.

Sorry, yes call Baker North.
Baker South is the play by the rules and do not touch modifications. Baker North is where Baker Tuning is at and is more on the side of getting the customer what they want.

Not sure what the pricing or what they can do to help, but they will gladly try to find a better solution than 3,000USD.

Ok, so I went today to Baker Nissan North and got in touch with Paul Morgan. They raised the suspension 1.5". I didnt have the wrench, so they had to somehow work with another half *** wrench, but managed to fix it. I also got the dampening adjusted and four wheel alignment/camber adjustment

Good work on my car....I recommend going to those guys rather than anywhere else..

Keep it up Baker Tuning

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Seahorse12'Z //09 370Z Touring w/Nav // KW Coilovers V3 // Venaci VS-124 // Camber Kit

Glad to hear they were able to help.