skyline styling???

[love_boost]

^^^ Lol that's what the guys at Ztune have to do with my car, pull it onto blocks.

**** I can't even pull it onto ramps in my driveway to do a god damned oil change myself. My low height jack only fits under the car if I turn the wheels all the way to one side and stick it in the wheel well.

Low cars can be sexy. But you pay the price. I guess in this instance I'm a cheap son-of-a-bitch. It's going up an inch.

BC240 can cry all they want about it. Too bad it's my car <insert middle finger emoticon>

yeah low cars a **** to work one.
the skyline with my 4x4 satus i can do lots without lifting it off the ground, im a skinny kid, but the fairlady is stupid low, got high centered and almost ripped exhuast off going to doctors apointment.

for DD i like the skyline way better even though the fairlady looks sleek.



car gets really scary driving down the highway and hitting a few what normally would be smaller bumps but ends up pretty much taking off the ground, some stretch along the #1 coming from calgary to medicine hat scared me, didnt even see them going 120, im sure the tires left the ground.

stupid low= stupid to drive. in japan it would be fine though.

[RHDskyline]

Thats what I'm afraid of here. I mean everywhere in Canada has bad roads to my understanding.

I still want to lower my car a bit more, but if I do I won't be able to get it on my dads hoist. I will just have to jack it up my hand then put the arms under the car

[support@feastauto]

This thread is a joke. Just close it now. This issue will never be resolved.

The way I see it there are 3 sides to this fight...One side you have the people who like the low look, don't give 2 ****'s about scraping exhaust, don't car about the geometry being slightly messed up.

On another side you have the track/lapping dudes, with fairly low cars, but wider tires, grip orientated. Guys in the know, that understand what's going on when they lower their car.

Then you have the 3rd side. No real clue about anything, low cars are impractical attitude, my 4x4 height looks great and perhaps isn't high enough. I bought my Skyline to be a part of a growing trend etc, type of guys.

/thread.

- Eric.

[jessem]

Jacking up is never an issue
a) i can remove my fornt bumper in 3 minutes
b) i have 2x6's stacked and nailed together that i can pull up on

last summer i daily drove my car for 5 months, no issues, take drive ways slow and keep an eye peeled for large bumps(which should be done anyways) as stated the roads here arent like japan but if you pay attention a low car can be driven without issue. If that is what your into, falcon and skym i know you like your set ups so im not directing this at you, nor do i disagree with your decisions, its personal preference right?

Although i do like what c-unit said, its cool to have a low set up but with the right parts to maintain all the good handling theres nothing wrong with slamming it.

Side note, i think i remember reading the white takata r34 maybe???? was running drop spiindles to get it lower (obvisously not a street car though)

[Skym]

Everyone has their own ride height, alignment settings that work best.

Just changing tyres affects handling. V8 supercars can adjust to these changes via in cabin devices before leaving pit lane. I gather they are worked out before race, as they are told the settings to use over radio.

Alot of people in motorsport (who are engineers and have degrees in this field) know how to work out ride height. To setup a racecar properly cost's alot of $$$ that most simply don't have.

Downunder, we go to motorsport experts for suspension setup advice, revalving of shocks to suit setup, etc.

[jessem]

One day I would like to beable to truly understand suspension, and know how to truly setup a well rounded car.
Most of us are talking out our ass' right now, but its a discussion not facts.

although skym holds a lot of knowledge, id really like to see some pictures of your car/build sheet, i can imagine its a very well rounded car. care to share?

[frankiman]

http://forums.gtrcanada.com/showthread.php?t=49559

/nuff said

[love_boost]

One day I would like to beable to truly understand suspension, and know how to truly setup a well rounded car.
Most of us are talking out our ass' right now, but its a discussion not facts.

although skym holds a lot of knowledge, id really like to see some pictures of your car/build sheet, i can imagine its a very well rounded car. care to share?

lol, yeah i always think the same, i would love to see skym's car, he has alot of knowledge about these machines, im sure his car would be an amzingly put togethr well rounded track/DD car.

yeah i agree with Feastauto, it all depends what you want to do with your car, i think the original question was more why dosent anyone do it? and turned more into a trashing of 240 owners which got us skyline owners trashed on.
in the end there is alot of crap in this thread lol.

[RHDskyline]

It was all started with me and my idiotic self thinking that skyline owners didn't SLAM there car, or lower them properly.

I jumped to a conclusion which got into a huge argument which actually turned out to be beneficial for me cause I learned quite a bit

[frankiman]

^^ you broke the internet i hope you know !! jk

[RHDskyline]

I accidently the whole internet

[Skym]

JesseM, I don't know a fraction of what these engineers with degrees that work on V8 supercars know. Or people that rebuild shocks for competition use everyday. If you have seen their custom project cars, you would think these dudes know their stuff. They build their own chassis, outer skin for chassis, custom aluminium undertrays, adjustable suspension arms, rollcages / bar for rollover protection, know a good suspension setup to use, etc. It's a specialist field and they are flippen good at what they do.

I don't like to show off my car, as it's nothing special.

[M13]

you elitists can go post on bc240.com

SOOO MUCH better there for a mature discussion on this matter, and they have MANY experts on the PERFECT stance for your car!!!

[Velders]

One day I would like to beable to truly understand suspension, and know how to truly setup a well rounded car.
Most of us are talking out our ass' right now, but its a discussion not facts.

although skym holds a lot of knowledge, id really like to see some pictures of your car/build sheet, i can imagine its a very well rounded car. care to share?

Pick up a copy of "Race Car Vehicle Dynamics" by Milliken & Milliken. That would be a good start.

[Chewy]

you elitists can go post on bc240.com

SOOO MUCH better there for a mature discussion on this matter, and they have MANY experts on the PERFECT stance for your car!!!

Hardly. This thread started out as a simple question, which quickly descended into a tit-suckling preaching to the choir circle jerk of SKYLINE ELITISM 4x4 love in the name of the vehicle's monetary value.

Due to the SERIOUS lack of circuits in BC, I'm not sure how some are touting a track specific stance or intense concern for CG's and Roll centers unless you drive to spokane or Calgary for track days... Even then, who here has corner balanced their car? or knows their geometry specs off by heart? Right, the ones who do know probably are the old guys who are too mature for this ****.

Sorry, just puttin it out there.