Any springs that won't eat tires?

ddvette9

My best friend who works as a manager at tires plus used to have a Z and swears that any drop I do I have to get a camber kit or else my rear tires will get half the life. Sooo many people on this website have simple drops. I wanna do one. Is there any springs that will give me a drop but won't tear up my tires like my friend says. Just a plug and play spring drop and then I guess I'll get a realignment after

christian370z

One piece of advice: don't listen to your friend because he doesn't know what he is talking about. You will not eat your tires after lowering the car and having an alignment done as the camber will be within factory spec and therefore will not have a significant impact on tire life.

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kenchan

it's not the camber, the toe is wat really eats at the tires.

Red__Zed

The way kids run camber these days, you can totally destroy tires with camber too.

kenchan

i dont think you need me to explain this to you, but just in case, they are a different breed of people with different goals for their cars. obviously we're not talking about VIP setups right now.

ddvette9

no i just dont want my tires to go from 20k miles of life to 11-12 like my friend says bc the camber will be so bad that my tires will just get eaten up

Red__Zed

I mean, the h&r springs without a camber kit will likely wear the tire pretty bad.

Red__Zed

The Eibachs and the swift both have a mild enough drop you shouldn't need a camber kit. I think with H and R's you may need to get one, but even with them, it's not like you'll be running hellaflush levels of camber.

Red__Zed

Bye bye tires.


You won't be seeing more than 2.5* with springs though.

Cmike2780

camber kit isn't all that expensive, why not get them?

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CrownR426

Your friend is right technically!
If you just install your springs you will have negative camber, thats a drifter's build.
Now we can easily fix that negative camber with either an alignment or rear endlinks(camber kit).

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DIGItonium

I'm in the same boat! Just had the Swift springs installed with a new set of 275/35 and 305/30 tires, and the techs couldn't get the wheels aligned as much as they wanted and suggested ordering the camber kits. They didn't recommend me driving the car much until I get the camber kits and get the wheels aligned again.

They even suggested that I try to raise the FI TDX exhaust cans, but I'm not sure how.

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brado

when you lower the car it gives you negative camber right? so does that mean that the insides of ur tires will wear faster?

azn370z

Not always, depends on who aligns your z. I've noticed with my tires the inside and outside wear evenly. I'm at about 12k.

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brado

the reason i was asking was because i havnt lowered mine yet and since my tires in the front wear on the outside more, if i lower it shouldnt it make it wear more evenly without a camber kit (just in the front)?