MestizoRacer310

What's the best "sporty" yet "comfy" spring rate to go with.......??

I'd like to keep the drop to a minimum...say 1.5" or less.

TIA.

jweller

I don't know the actual rates, but prokits and konis are perfect for you.

urbanlegend21

any spring is going to bouce

a good shcok helps remove a lot of the up and down bounciness

FREAKquency04

i say get the sprint springs with the koni yellows

Doom878

I got Ground Control coilovers with stock shocks and didn't bounce at all until maybe a year and a half after. I'm still riding with stock shocks and I put in my GC's Sept. 01.

94AccordCoupe

A good rate I think is about 400 lb/in front 300 lb/in rear for street use. Thats about what my teins are. You will also need a good shock to get the most comfort. GC's and some other more raceing oriented springs are in the 600-700 range I believe and you'll definetly feel every bump if you go that high.

saso

What spring rates should I get?
This is a completely open question. Quite frankly, if you're blindly asking this question, you probably dont need custom rates and brings us back to the original question, "Should I get coilovers or springs?" and you probably would be better off with one of the many street kits from Eibach, Neuspeed or H&R, or just get the preset vehicle specific kit from GC. The reason I say this is because there is such a wide variety of street kits with varying stiffness and ride heights that will still perform very well on autox and even be enjoyable around the track, and remain a fair margin of safety required for driving on the street. Typically, most adjustable spring kit owners rarely, almost never based on my survey, adjust their ride heights after initially setting it and buying such a kit would be a waste of money. Furthermore, allowing more adjustment simply allows more ways of setting your suspension WRONG for your application.

Having said that, and you are still convinced you require custom spring rates, first define your application. What type of driving will your car MAINLY be doing and NOT just "occasionally"? (i.e. street, autox, open track, road race, rally) Then do your own RESEARCH (key is "search") to other recommended setups. Only YOU can determine what is a good spring rate for your application, and then try it. The good thing about the GC setup is you can swap out springs and try another combo. For many autoxers of FWD Hondas, stiffening up the rear relative to the front reduces some of the understeer inherent in FWD cars and helps rotate the car. 400f/600r (along with an aftermarket rear swaybar) seems popular among Integra drivers but is very stiff for street use and requires high quality shocks. Competitive road racing setups can go up to 450f/900r or 600f/800r, even 1200, but is completely NOT recommended for driving on the street, for comfort and safety and suspension/hardware reliability and lifetime, and is not needed except for competition.

Read this site, like I said the decision is yours. Do like the site says and do research.
http://www.norcalcrx.org/tyson/coilover.html#05

MestizoRacer310

Well, I ended up getting a set of used Tanabe Sustec Pros off ebay for a nice price, so when I get them in....time to have some fun..hehe

Anyone know if those are rebuildable??