Quick Coilover Opinion

gsherry

First let me say I am not being lazy by not reading through all of these forum topics. I am a noobie here and to save time I wanted to know from a few people that have been here for awhile and have through all of the coilover topics if there seems to be a concensus on what are the best coilovers to install on a 2009 370Z. Here is a rundown on what is currently installed on the car. AP-racing big brake 6 piston calipers front and AP-racing 4 piston big brake kit rear, hotkis swaybars front and rear, seibon carbon front splitter and carbon rear wing, stillen external oil cooler, aluminum belly pan, stillen cat back exhaust, high flow cats, Vortec Supercharger installed and tuned by Titan motorsports. It was tuned conservatively, was dyno-ed and is putting out 440 HP at the rear wheels. Rear suspension arms and link switched out to fully adjustable for lowering with the coilovers.
I want to put on coilovers that would only drop the car an inch or so and would also like to know with that amount of drop from the coilovers is there enough adjustment in the front end to keep the camber with just a little negative camber or should I also plan on buying the adjustable top A-arm? I can post pics if anyone is interested or it can be seen on titan motorsports website here. This was posted prior to us adding a little larger pulley hence the lower HP listed. Titan Motorsports Blog Search Results 370z
Any help without abuse for not reading through all of the threads is greatly appreciated.

Waiz

KW version 3's are excellent coilovers

Telephone

Searching would have been quicker than posting. You may get subjective/biased replies. I read every thread in this sub-forum before I settled for Swift/Koni.

Is this a race car? Street car?
What are your needs for handling?
Budget?

gsherry

I want a daily driver as it is currently, but, with the occasional weekend auto-cross ability. budget is not an issue overall, but, I just don't want to over spend just to be able to say I have the most expensive coilovers made. I hope that makes sense. if it turns out that the most expensive are also the best option than that is fine. for example when I was looking for tires for the car, the oem tires to replace were also almost the most expensive. did some research and tried a set of Hankook tires that were around $90 per tire. these turned out to be the best tires I have ever had on a car. i.e. quiet, strong sidewall, good in wet and dry, good wear, great handling and let you know right when they are at their limit of breaking free. I may have to go through all of the threads concerning coilovers, but, thought there might be someone who found a set of coilovers as I had found the tires and would share that info to at least narrow down my "search results". I appreciate any input and thoroughly understand that there are going to be mixed opinions out there, but if I had 3 responses that all recommended the same coilovers with the same results and performance improvements, it would point me in the right direction to then do deeper research. currently I am "flying blind" and a virgin as far as coilovers go. that being said, I have done plenty of reading on them to thoroughly understand the pros and cons, good and bad. now, I just want real world opinions from drivers that have put "x-brand" on their cars already.

TerribleONE

+1 for KW V3s

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zguynate

If money is not an issue and you want the best I would go with KW v3's like the others have suggested. They arent the cheapest but they will allow you to adjust the rebound and compression. Not to mention they go through extensive testing through out the R&D phase.

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2009 370z touring w/sports package

gsherry

thank you guys, that is exactly all I wanted to accomplish here. Now I am aimed in the right direction and will do my research on those coilovers to ensure it is what I am looking for.
One last question since you guys have dealt with these coilovers already. Will there be anything additional I should look at getting at the same time as the coilovers for getting them installed? is there anything that is required to mount these to the Z? any different linkage, A-Arms etc?
thanks a bunch to you guys.

zguynate

You will more than likely need camber arms in order to get back into spec. Personally I would go ahead and get toe arms as well to eliminate any alignment issues that could show up in the future. Most people get the toe bolts and it works fine for them though. I would get toe arms out of preference for more adjustability.

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2009 370z touring w/sports package