After Google searching everywhere and calling 20 different part suppliers, the only springs available for our 3rd gens are B&G, everyone else's are discontinued Ksport are even discontinued. If you need springs you better get them now. Contact Mike @ sales@importrp.com our price is $205 shipped. Just some heads up!

 

Some shops may still have others but it's alot of patients and searching. Eibach discontinued their springs for the 3rd gens in 08 but i was able to find a shop with a set NIB collecting dust on their shelf. B&G are a 2" drop so you can't go too big on the rim and tire size without rubbing the fender though i haven't heard any feedback on them either but $205 shipped sounds like a good price for lowering springs.

 

AC, they are Front Drop 1.6 Rear Drop 1.6, Lifetime warranty.

 

Here they are on 3rdgenMax's car:

 

Christine's92Max:



BG's KYB GR2'S On 17'S which is my set-up.

 

Looks good! I know the eibach's are a 1.6" drop. I thought the B&G's were a 2" but obviously i was wrong. I have 18" rims on mine and 1/4" spacers and it sits pretty close to the fenders but looking at Christine's on 17's it looks almost slightly tucked but regardless looks like the B&G's give it a pretty nice stance.

 

just get Eibachs if you can, theyre a good drop

i had Ksport GT on mine which were 2.0/2.2 drop, scraped everywhere

 

i would have went with ST's since I ran them on my VW Jetta in the past, loved 'em. No Eibach's anywhere nor Ksport Gt's, sure you can order them online, only to find out they're discontinued for life, that's why I called them all before ordering. I wish Neuspeed made them for our cars. But honestly I worked very hard on other alternatives they just weren't any.

 

Intrax is another good set of springs. I currently have those installed. I had Arospeeds installed in the past and if i recall it has a 1.25 drop in the front and 1.75 in the rear with the Arospeeds. I still have them somewhere stored.

 

I wish I would have know before ordering these. Thx anyway.

 

I got some Eibachs new in box off a guy from Cl for 150.00, I still haven't put the rears on though.

 

Email this guy and ask what he has importcarpartsplus@gmail.com (Justin) and here's their website as well:
http://www.importcarpartsplus.com/ma...ion.htm#Shocks

 

I knew a guy who had a GXE and asked me to install his springs which were B&G springs. After installing them, i drove the car and it drove nice. IIRC they werent too stiff.

 

I've actually been purposely planning to do that on my black VE. I like the back slightly higher. My turbo car has Intrax up front and Eibach in the rear. My stock VE will eventually have Eibach up front and stock rear.

 

You like the rake (low nose, slightly higher rear)!

 

Dropped off BuTTa today to get everything installed. $325 for everything including alignment, heck they even gave me a loaner. I had no idea Camry's rode this good, feels like I'm riding on AIR!

 

It wasn't a SE!

 

These are ST's springs with GR-2 struts and rides nice, handles really well, utilizing ST swaybars as well and 235/45/17's wearing BF Goodrich G-Sport sneakers! Never exhibits any tire squeal throwing it hard into turns!!! The drop was stated on the instructions as 1.5" F/R!

 

BEFORE:



AFTER:











AFTER SPRINGS SETTLED:

REALIGNMENT: Below shows how off the alignment became after springs settled just over the weekend.





BuTTa dropped on B&G sports springs & KYB struts/shocks, no more body roll on & off the ramps.; but I don't think that the springs have settled yet, just picked it up yesterday.

 

Then my maf goes out, great!!!

 

Looks fantastic man. The gold wheels look great on that pearl color.

How were you able to confirm your MAF went out? Did you have a spare?

Sure wish my VE problem was only a MAF. I still haven't figured my issue out yet.

 

Thanks James! I pulled the code from the ECU; 1 long pulse, then 2 short pulses, then entered it in the decoder.

I cleaned out the MAF with some MAF cleaner the night before, and cleared the code. But turned out to be just a temporary fix, the next day it came back, I'm off to the salvage yard this morning for a replacement. There's a 3rd gen. SOHC there with only 134k miles on it, and according to research they use the same MAF.

After this I may consider selling it, way to much drama with these cars.

 

It's good to see all the 3rdgen owners still doing ur thangs!! I had to sell my B!$ch, after the accident she started to fall apart and the R/R wheel well seam had some bad rott. I had already copped another 5thgen Lude 5/MT then got rid of the A/T 5thgen Lude. I just recently bought an '04 Volvo XC70 2.5T AWD w/self leveling xenon(HID) head lamps. I've been looking @ 5.5gen Maximas w/ 6MT but the pickings are slim for one in good to really good condition w/low mileage. I miss my pearl white GXE w/HUD/Sonar Suspension/Euro clear lens/ect... If I could find a really good black 3rdgen with leather and a 5MT I might consider buying it as a project.

 

Out of 8 3rd gen's and 2 salvage yards I finally found one with 230k miles. All 7 others had already been removed. It looked pretty dirty so I used electronic cleaner on it, let it dry off before I replaced it and reset ECU.

It doesn't cut-off anymore, but rides kinda rough on acceleration. Going to check out the injectors; still have 5 of the Python rebuilt ones in there, wondering if maybe another one bit the dust.

 

Turned out to be a busted fuel line, we must have missed one when we did the injector overhaul and changed all the fuel lines.

BuTTa is smooth once again!

 

Nice! Put the rears on, what's the holdup?

 

That's the thing with NE cars, checkout craigslist SE cities.

 

I have a set of eibachs to get rid of if anyone interested.

 

How much would you want for them? Condition?

 

Just sold them to another member last night. Sorry

 

Okay, here we go again!!! Since installing the B&G springs, I've done a complete suspension refresh. Wheel bearings and hub assemblies, lower controls arms & ball joints, tie rods, brand new axles both sides, drilled & slotted rotors, tie rod boots polyU, sway bar endlinks polyU, sway bar bushings polyU.

As it turns out this drop is way too aggressive, now the right axle is thumping when I make a sharp left turn and I have way too much suspension noise, creaking & so on. I took it to NTB, and the tech said with that drop and new parts it's stressing the axles. The axles are Autozone Golds and have a lifetime warranty, so I'm getting a replacement in tomorrow, but all this work was done less then 5k miles ago, so I'm really considering different springs. However, these were the only ones available at the time. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Ugh!

 

Well, yes a drop does put a TAD bit more stress on the axles, but it's somewhat negligible. I mean your boots will wear out sooner and conceivably your CV joints will wear out sooner as well. But we're talking the difference between like 60k miles dropped and 80k miles all stock type of thing (just made those numbers up for comparison purposes, they're not hard numbers or anything).

I have been dropped for 15 continuous years and I definitely have not gone through axles or suspension parts much more often than I would stock.

Suspension noise and creaking really doesn't have to do with being lowered. Creaking and noise is actually almost certainly more related to your poly parts than being lowered. You need to lube your poly parts up, and do it every few months. That's just the drawback of poly.

About your axle, that's just luck of the draw. I too just went through a bad Autozone axle. It was thumping and grinding on sharp turns from the day I put it in. They swapped it out for me and all is good. I definitely wouldn't chalk that up to your drop at all. Rebuilt axles are just a crapshoot.

Also - if you feel the drop has really added this many issues to your car, and you go with a not-as-low drop, which in actuality will only be an 1/8" or 1/4" AT MOST difference - do you think that 1/8" of inch will make any difference whatsoever? Your suspension won't even know any different. Even 1/4" is nothing comparatively speaking in terms of alleviating any issues.

Just my $0.02

 

Thanks James m8, I was a bit worried when it happened, due to all the new parts I've installed, and the axles are new; not rebuilt. As it stands now it's about a 3" drop compared to your 1.5". Another thing is did you put coil spring isolators on yours'?

 

Why do you think your car is a 3" drop?

Did the merchant you bought your springs from and/or the listings list it as a 3" drop?

I have Intrax springs up front (where it really affects ride qualify), which are a 1.75" drop, historically the lowest springs available for the 3rd gen. I know some of these newer eBay springs like K2 or whatever they're called advertise as supposedly 2.2" drop or even more but those are incorrect. They aren't even as low as Intrax judging by Chrome's pictures of his drop.

If you have B&G you have a 1.6" drop. Judging by your wheel gap you aren't anywhere close to 3", and 3" would basically be undriveable anyway. Honestly your pictures to me look like Eibach-esque drop, which makes sense at 1.6" vs 1.5". Your front tire isn't even tucked under the front lip as you can actually see the top of the tire through the side wheel well opening.

When I was a teenager I heated my coils and slammed my car as low as it would go, literally. I measured it at about 2.5" drop. It was nearly undriveable and slammed very very low. I can tell by pictures that none of these supposed 2"+ drops are even in the same neighborhood.

Out of simple curiosity, can you measure from the ground to the arch of one of your front wheels? What is that total distance?

*edit* when I still had Intrax on the back I did wrap the top coil in vinyl tubing. I haven't done the same on the Eibach

 

I will measure later today.

 

24" front, 26" rear

 

Where exactly are you measuring?

I ask because just visually it appears your car is right where the listed drop for B&G is - ~ 1.6", you don't look to be much/if any lower than that judging by the wheel/tire gap on the front fender in your pics.

On Intrax, I'm at 24.5" measuring at the very lowest "lip" on the very middle of the front wheel well on driver side. An auto transmission would be a tad lower as it's heavier than the manual. Is this your measuring point too?



Anyway, either way you're definitely not lowered 3 inches and at best even Eibach springs aren't going to raise it much if you want to go back higher somehow. Not to mention that Eibach springs aren't available anyway.

I think your drop looks great. I say get your replacement axle in from Autozone, lube your poly stuff and keep on truckin'

 

Yes, from ground to middle wheel well.

 

Swapped out that axle today, rides better than ever now. Thinking it was defective all along.