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Versanick, if ur a lil tight on money or not so serious about ur suspension, then this is not the right time for you to debate and get confused in all this comossion. A lot of people here do not have the means or money to do things twice. So here is the deal. You read what Jim mentioned in his replies. He explained it in great detail. You want great handling without sacrificing your ride comfort and your safety, well Konis with progress springs are the way to go. U can get then for around 600 bucks (front and rear, strut and coils) shipped to your door.
You get what you spend. You spend 300 bux on 4 struts thinkin it would be good and ur saving around 150 bucks compared to the konis, well you are gonna get handling thats worth less than 150 bux. WHich means, its not gonna be what you expected and you cant go back.
So here is the conclusion to my rambling. IF you want great handling car and expect much nicer response and cornering Two things are for you. KONI struts and PROGRESS lowering springs. :)
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Thanks a ton... The guy at my local speed shop has guaranteed me he can get me the Koni's I need...
Although ride discomfort is my goal, not comfort. I want everyone who just rode in my car for a 4 minute ride to go "DAMN, my ass hurts!", every single time. I want long trips to make your rear end so sore that it's almost sickening. I wasn't joking about that... I think it's the coolest thing ever. That's why I was looking at DropZone and Arospeed coilovers... not because of the expense of them, but because they are 400+lb/in2 stiff... I was just looking for struts to handle them (assuming Konis will? I haven't gotten to talk to my speed shop guy about that yet; just a quick call about if he could find them)...
All I was looking forward to NOT doing was spending $632 for a pair of revalved Billstein HD's... I can certainly agree spending that much (or in excess of $900 total) for making my ride where I need it to be, after I buy the rear camber adjustments from tirerack.com and the adjustable control arms from truckn-store.com, ...
but to just spend that much on a couple of struts was beyond me. I'm not looking to go budget on anything here... I was just looking to see if there's a strut that will actually resonably handle a ride that's lowered excessively (like I'm looking for 3-4" down)... without making ridiculous bounce. Stiffness? I want it as stiff as it can possibly bee... response, cornerning, and handling are a must.
If progress springs are going to make the ride nice though, that's not what I want... I very much appreciate the advice, and respect it, and would certainly go down that route... some of my friends have real nice Eibach springs and tokico gas stuff that costed them a lot of money (on their other cars), and they handle nice, and they have real nice ride comfort....
Then I have another friend whose integra is lowered around 5", with coilovers, some crazy KYB strut that they made for a slightly different car that the speed shop adapted for him, and he has the stiffest, lowest ride I've EVER ridden in. And that's what I want. When he had his 14" steely wheels, you'd watch the ONLY thing bounce on his car be tire bounce, and that's how I want it...
Since, he's gotten 17" wheels with lp tires, and it rides super-hard... one time he got stuck at the entrace of a mini-golf place at a little zone of construction, and the tiny bump at the entrance pinned up his shift linkage, and he couldn't move the car... had to have me and two construction worker dudes help lift his car out lol...
anyway... while I"m on a side track..
Dude for a remote wire, instead of tearing everything apart or anything like that, go get a switch (any kind of switch, even a light switch from a house - yes I've tried it), and run some small-gague wire from your power (that goes into the amp) to the switch, back to the remote.
That way your amp/sub is now on a switch, on or off anytime you want (or when cops go by), without even playing with your deck. Remote goes on a lot of decks real easy. I've done it on 4 systems of my friends, all with JVC or Pioneer or Aiwa decks... totally random..
the switch method always works though. remote just needs some power that's all.
give it some hot.
Ride it fast, play it loud, and keep it low.
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i would not suggest coil overs for daily drivers. Its pretty pointless to have ur car lowered more than 1.5" and expect great handling.
The prefect drop for optimum handling is 1.5" and nothing more. But you can get away with 2" drop with a stiffer spring like Progress group. Neuspeed and Other coils are very soft like you might have heard from our mod JIM C. the best performance oriented setup is having konis ($425 a set of 4) and the progress group progressive springs ($150). So ur spending around $575 for the best handling and ride suspension set up.
Any other coil i would suggest you put it on Tokikos or KYBs.
You dont really need a camber adjustment in the rear for our cars, but for the front, you can get the Control arms from a 2nd gen prelude to fix ur camber.
