Just put on h and r springs
 

Hey guys I jus put on my rear springs by h and r I'm doin the job myself the rears are on but fronts goin on 2day. The question I have is tht my left back side is more cambered and sits a tad lower than the right is this normal because of settling. I'm about 225 lbs so will the extra weight on the left make it settle quicker.

Thanks

Yes, it's normal. The driver side will settle will always settle first, nothing to panic over. If you want the passenger side to settle evenly, drive that side over some speed bumps a few times if you can, it'll help.

dont listen to arnold. he does all sorts of drugs, than randomly posts things on the internet.....

You should give it a week or two for it to settle. If it still looks uneven, you might have a problem.

You could always get a fat girlfriend to help even things out! :roflpuke2:

The drivers side will sit higher than the passenger side. It takes a few days to settle but you may notice it may settle for a couple weeks.

you mean the drivers side will sit lower?

when i installed springs in the past on my other cars the heights were pretty even after i took it for a quick spin.

:iagree: with what everyone says.

dont you drive a 4x4?

:stirthepot:

Usually the drivers side will be higher because Nissan knows that once a driver gets into the car the drivers side drops down to match the height of the passenger side. That's just my guess.

:icon18: naw, i dont think so. i chose my wheels well (19x9 ET38, 19x10.5 ET15) stock height :tup:

http://www.the370z.com/members/kench...-rear-side.jpg

similiar to mine

im just a half inch wider at 19x9.5+20 19x11+18

Pretty sure that's completely wrong. The spring rates are the same per pair, front and back. As is the design of the coil on both sides.

nnnnn...not really. ET38-ET20 = 18mm + another 4-5mm for the tires pulled out from the 0.5" wider wheels. 22-23mm difference is HUGE.

the rear is closer to mine.

i dont mind the rear poke but the front needs to be inside the verticle fender lip line when looked at from the front for me. :) with the z having a pointed nose the car looks even worse when looked at from the angle taken in my pic when you got a wide stance.

once you lower your ride the added neg camber and smaller wheel gap will make it look nice and smooth on yours. :)

I don't think the shocks or springs have anything to do with it has to do with how the suspension is designed. That's what I noticed when I took measurements before I installed Coilovers.

per material cost i am pretty certain both sides are even on stock setup.

for coilover setups you'd sit in the car while it's being corner weighted so that the car sits flat with you in the car.
same with alignments for racing setups.

If the car was designed to sit higher on one side than the other without anyone in it, that means the two front springs would have a different spring rate and coil compression.

Regardless, our stock springs make the car sit perfectly even from the factory all around. Likewise, my Swifts seem to have settled and are even all around since I broke them in correctly.

When I inspected where the rear springmounts attach to the bottom portion of the z I noticed that the left and right areas weren't mirror images. The two areas were different. I would suspect that would be what could create the difference in height. The difference isn't really noticeable by looking. The front were a couple mm different and the rear were several mm.

so if we get a right hand drive Z's service manual and compare it with a left hand drive Z's service manual we will know of sure if these parts are swapped in the two markets...

I was just guessing that the difference of the two areas was the reason, only because the two sides are different. But that wouldn't explain why the front left and right are a different height. I recall reading an interview of one of the Japanese engineers and he mentioned that the z was designed with the the u.s. consumers. He commented that the u.s. spec has better left and right weight distribution. Although I don't know think that he was talking about the left and right height difference.