man some of the videos ive seen of them japs out on the street. them guys are crazy. it would be fun to do taht on the streets though

 

on a 7thgen...Ground control springs, go to turboevolution.com and contact Tony, you can even get custom spring weights I believe. Koni Yellow shocks, Koni has the best warranty, evey other company has limits on how low the warranty will cover, koni covers all drops and will send you refurbished shocks to replace yours and all you have to do is send yours back after you get the new ones.

 

Keeping the POST ALIVE, *muahahaha*


From what I have seen, lowering springs are going to FI*&K up your ride. You are throwing in springs that have a different height (obviously) and also a different spring rate than stock. The springs are going to be missmatched with your current struts/shocks. This leads me to believe you're going to be bouncing around like a go-cart. Now I could be wrong, but it seems the cheaper route is going to give you the cheaper results.

Now with coilover combos, they are more expensive but you are buying a matched combo, correct? The right struts/shocks for the spring rate. As far as the harsher ride that lilo mentioned, how? You can buy different packages with different spring rates. The adjustability is sweet, I know that when I get around to doing my suspension I am going to love the ability to raise my ride height for the winter, so I'm not snow plowin with my bumper.

 

you will have a smoother all-around ride with springs rather than coil overs, but if u like to take the turns hard you should go with the coil overs. i have tokico coil overs and im satisfied with them.

 

Not to second guess anyone, but how would it provide any different ride quality?

 

but not all people can afford coil overs to where u can get custom rates let alone know what spring rate to go with. im speaking in general as most of our customers just say hey i want a set of skunk 2 coilovers. as far as a matched setup your talkin say the tein basic damper kit which will run you about $750. there setup is very firm and agressive but not intolorable. but if your peicing together with say tokico illuminas and skunk sleeves your ride will suck when compared to a matched coil over kit like tein or even jic. as far as winter is concerned, i prefer to change out to my factory springs and struts as i dont want the road salt and all that other nasty crap on my summer suspension.

 

lowering springs are taller than sleeve type springs. so basically its due to the spring rate difference. the lowering spring can be a little softer. eibach makes really great springs that ride almost like factory just a tad bit firmer.

 

you can get a set of tokico hp shocks and the matched springs for under 300 shipped. ebay. they will give ya a drop and firm up the ride and everything was made to work together. ive heard good things bout tokico as well

i prefer to go the lowering spring route myself. i really have no need to adjust ride height. my civ is not raced or anything. and i dont feel like takin the car to the shop for alignments after movin things around a few times. if its an everyday driver go lowering. if you race it or anything go coilover. if you got $$$ to burn go coilover or send me the money and i will find a way to spend it


hehehe i did the opposide of what i said ide do. founda nice coilover kit for the same price as the tokico strunt/spring combo. o well. get what ever is a better price [sm=smiley36.gif]

 

If you just want to have your car to handle better than stock & doing mostly street driving, I would say get a Koni red shocks & H&R sports springs. The ride will be almost as good as stock but you'll feel the handling improvement over stock. Coil over would be great if you're planning to put your car in the show or take it to the track a lot of times. In the past, I had Koni adjustable shocks on my 1989 Civic Si & currently I also have the Koni adjustable shocks on my 1997 Prelude Type SH. On both cars, I put extremely a lot of mileage & abuse due to NYC's horrible road condition & the shocks never gave me any problem at all. On the Civic back then, I put about 75,000 miles on it & still works like new. Koni make great shocks which is why I bought it again for my Honda Prelude, which now already putting about 100,000 miles without any problem at all.

Hope that helps in your decision making on the suspension upgrade.

 

I have adjustable skunk2 coilovers and kyb shocks ans struts and i think it drives fine and i had lowering springs and i didnt like it but u know its up to you and how u want ure ride.