Tein Suspiensions

[Scorpion88LX]

I have been talking to some of the Tein Suspension reps. and dealers. As of now they do not have any products to fit 3gen. accords. I have been directed to a dealer around here. When I talked to him I told him that 4gen. accord suspiensions have been used on our cars but with complications. He said that it might be possible for the company to modify some of the 4gen. products to fit and work for the 3gen. Also we might be able to use the EDFC system that allows the suspiension to be controlled and adjusted by the driver in the car, via electric motors and mounted controller.
What I need to Know is what exactly doesn't work on 4gen. suspiension on the 3gen.
example: Is it too long?, Too much travel? Too Short?. ect.....

[Jims 86LXI HB]

First and foremost, what are your goals with your car? Why are you looking into something that is really expensive? What do you want with your suspension?


The problem is the 4th gen has more suspension travel. So thier struts are allot taller. Even when compaired to the shorter bodied sport struts from Bilstien and Koni's they are still way to long to be used on a 3rd gen.

The major benefit of using coilovers is surposed to be for corner weighting. But that not how they ever get used here. The only reason to want full bodied coilover's is to get a matched system where the dampers(struts) are tuned to match the springs with them and to do corner weighting. A side benefit woud be that they would have shorter bodied dampers(struts). Being that teins are around $1200 dollars you can guess what they'd charge for a one off design for our cars. You can accomplish the everything they offer by getting ground-control sleave coilovers and have Bilstein revalve a set of their H.D. struts to match the spring rates. The only thing you would not have would be shorter bodied strut bodies. But if your serious about the handling aspects it's highly debateable that you'd drop you car low enough to need shorter bodies anyways. And if your not interested in handling why would would you spent that kind of money?

[Jims 86LXI HB]

Oh BTW, the info on the differance between 4th gen and 3rd gen struts compatibility comes from having the tech's at both Bilstein and Koni compairing the techical drawings of the struts used in both cars. What was looked at was, mount to mount compressed and mount to mount fully extened. And the length of both strut bodies.

BTW, OpmMotorsports does offer custom valved Koni Sports for our car. They are the real gas charged sport model with shorter front bodies. This is the only way to get Koni Sport's for our cars.
As a custom thing they are expensive, $1200

[Scorpion88LX]

thanx, the reason why I want the Tein's are their great history and performancel. They make great products plus they have the EDFC. Some of their suspensions have been on some of the best N1 racecars.

[Jims 86LXI HB]

Originally posted by Scorpion88LX
thanx, the reason why I want the Tein's are their great history and performancel. They make great products plus they have the EDFC. Some of their suspensions have been on some of the best N1 racecars.

Yes I've heard of thier reputation. But that reputation is no doubt from having spend plenty of R&D time with each application. Something they haven't choosen to do with the 3rd gen accord. Simply addapting a 4th gen sturt to our application would not assure the same level of performace. The weight distrubution and suspension geometery is not the same between vehicle's. If they offered to make changes to the spring rates and valving based on corner weights that you provide, that would make the differance between spending that much money or getting revalved bilsteins for $630 and ground-controls for $340.

[chronicsinners]

yea... you expect people to group buy a 1200$ set of jspek coilovers, keep dreaming, dont waste your time, excellent coilovers with a good rap but it wont happen, just get GC's and konis/bilstiens