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yesterday i installed my maxspeed coilovers, i have them at the lowest setting. i have about a 2 inch clearance, i have to go under the speedlimit on most roads cuz its so bouncy, especially on the highway :rolleyes: if i raise it will it not be as bumpy? before i bought the car i got it checked out and they said the rear struts are shot... that might be my biggest problem. suggestions please? thanks!
did you buy performance struts?
if not. i think you should invest in Koni struts or some adjustible.
because you have teg. it should be easy to find all kinds of struts.
no i still have the stock struts, i try searching for 93 integra struts on ebay and i just get strut bars for the engine bay... i dont know that much about suspension (yet)..
Right now you are sitting on the bumpstop. If you haven't trimmed them, do it. If you have, raise the car back up about 1/2 inch off of the bumpstops and it will ride decent and won't really make a difference in the look.
My car is dropped 3 inches on cut stock springs and it rides great. I have a set of H&R's and I won't put them in because I really like the way it rides now. Most people can't even tell it is lowered by riding in it.
i trimmed the rear bumpstops not the front ones... thanks i'll try that tonight!! only problem is, my car is so low i cant get the jack under the car lol
my friend had his springs cut a while back and blew out the shocks and struts on his acclaim. i think all were screwed up. anyway, he just got lowering springs and new shocks and struts and is riding smoother now. i now screwed up shocks or struts makes a car ride all fuckedy.
Raise it up, until you get performance shocks- otherwise you will ruin your stock struts/shocks, your screwed up camber will ruin your tires, and every bushing in your suspension will wear away.
Everyone thinks it's worth it to slam their car, but I've been there and it wasn't worth it, unless you can get everything perfect.
I'm just dropped 1.5 inch Eibach with Tokico struts/shocks and my ride kicks ass.
if you are running coil-overs, no matter what set you get, they are stiffer then stock springs. From the factory, all strut/springs combinations are manufactured to compliment one another. If you get stiffer springs, you MUST get stiffer struts/shocks. There is no way around this. If your springs are considerably overpowering your struts (this is the case with you), the struts will not do their job very well, if at all. Essentially, This means that you are running your car on just springs. The strut is made to absorb the rebound from your spring. When the spring is compressed, it needs to rebound. That's where the strut comes into play, it controls that rebound so that there's no "kick-back". Without proper dampening (struts/shocks job), a car will get that floaty, bouncy feeling.
Seriously, I would invest in some good struts for that car. They are very needed. You can't just get something like a Monroe sensatrac, you need a high performance strut that is valved high enough to deal with the abuse of the coil-overs.
If you don't want to spend the $$ on new struts, do what Chris (Pearl) said, and just cut the stock springs and put em in. I'm not suggesting you do that, but it's much safer then riding around the way you are now.
Yeah, I had a really bad ride even with Tokicos and my old weapon r coil overs. My friend has the Weapon R's in his 92 Prelude but with Koni's and it rides rather well for being so low. So when your dealing with suspension you really need to spend the money for the right struts or get a proper lowering spring to get a decent ride.
My ride gets a little sketchy with the Dropzones and my front struts are going out. It took about 7 months for the Dropzones to destroy them. :)
Stock struts or upgraded?
Alex
The bottom line for you right now is that the car is sitting on the bumpstops. It doesn't matter what kind of shocks/struts you have until you get the car up off of them at least a little bit. If you raise it just a half inch the ride will be a hundred times better. Then you can save up and buy new struts later.
