i've got a set of 2 1/2in lowering springs and i want to put them on but im not sure if it will screw anything up. if someone could get me some help with this that would be great. im not exactly sure what i should do.


CivicLover

 

With that much of a drop you will start ruining tires due to negative camber. i would sugest also getting a camber kit. After that everything should be good depending on what size tires you got.

 

i didnt like it when i did it but it does wear on chanbers

 

Depends i say coilovers are better can adjust them to conditions and stuff. And yea with that lowering amount u need camber kit for front and rear.

 

The first question that should have been asked to OP is:
What brand are the springs?
If they aren't a name brand, sell them on eBay, because they are garbage.
And for a drop that low, you'll also need some new shocks, the stock ones won't hold up with that kind of drop for very long.

 

Camber does NOT wear tires excessively. Let me repeat; camber does NOT wear tires excessively.

How do I know? Three degrees of negative camber on my old civic with no premature wear... but what do I know, I'm only speaking from experience. If someone calls bs, I'm more than happy to post plenty of pics of my old civic. Let me ask everyone who says about negative camber vs tire wear: where is your slammed civic again?

Get an alignment after lowering and have the toe zeroed back out. Don't bother with the camber; it'll take a few hundred miles off your tires' lives. And get new better shocks when you lower; you'll blow out the stock shocks in a matter of weeks with that low of a drop.

 

The springs are Tein so they are definately name brand. what type/brand shocks do you suggest?

thanks for all the input

 

^how much are you looking to spend

 

only about 2 or 3 hundred dollars

 

300 will get you a set of tokico blues or kyb gr-2's (which are about equal quality)
look for a set on ebay