News to me!!!

I accidently found this while I was looking for KYB GR2 shocks. It turns out that our cars ACTUALLY do have something in common with the 95-98 200sx. Infact the upgrade shocks and so on for the front and the rear of the 95-98 are supposed to be a direct swap for the IRS rear S12's, and ALL S12 fronts (rear 95-98 fits rear IRS, and front 95-98 fits all fronts of S12's)...

KYB part number for the front is

365031

and rear is

343210

I have not called to double check this yet, but I am going to tonight...

Post ASAP!!!! I need dampers all around and would love to go KYB. I had AGX's in my clipse and they treated me nice.

are you sure the 200sx fwd have the shortest struts out of any Nissan products for the front

are you sure the 200sx fwd have the shortest struts out of any Nissan products for the front
I am going straight from the KYB catalog...Currently I am not sure, but it sure does appear to be true...

as soon as the info is ligit.. someone is going to need to buy them and try to swap them in... i will sticky this and then transfer it too the "already answered questions"

ALL s12's? or just 4-cyl models? lots of times i find some stuff for 84-88 Ca20e, Ca18et, but no VG. if i can get a set for the V6, ill be all over them come spring.

You could just go into an Autozone or similar parts store, ask for the late-model 200sx part like you had one and have them show you the part. Even better if you have yours taken apart, clean up your old cartridge and bring it with you, tell them you want to compare your old strut to the new one. Don't need to mention that it's out of a different year :-P
One thing, wouldn't the late-model 200sx have had a coil-over-shock setup in the rear? [edit] FWIW I saw the entries in the KYB catalog online just now, that's interesting. I then went to Autozone's website, they list different part numbers for the two cars. I, too, would be very surprised to find them to be interchangeable, but stranger things have happened.

I did a search of part numbers on parts america and autozone and it doesn't look too good for a complete swap out. Part of the reason is that we use shocks in the rear and the B14 uses struts all the way around. Now, the front part number didn't match up, but the rear part numbers matched our front part numbers.

In summary, the rear struts in the B14 200SX are the same style as the front struts in the S12 200SX.

I talked to my dealer yesterday, and he is looking into it. His listing was the same way, so we shall soon see...If it looks promissing I will be taking mine apart next weekend...that gives me three weeks to put it back together, and hopefully get a definate answer...