hi guys! my 99 integra with 130,000 miles will have to be replace with new shocks soon and I would like to know what are the things that I need to change along with the shocks if their is any. Can I just replace the shocks and change my stock spring to lowering spring (about an 1 inch lower) and still maintain the good ride quality that my oem shocks and spring perform? BTW, I'm planning to buy tokico shocks and either eibach prokit or tiens spring. Are anything that I need to be aware of while replacing this that will prevent me from have more problems like replacing the control arm thing or adding a camber kit?
thanks for any help

you should get the camber kit for the front and rear. i have tokico blues, and the car is lowered with there springs 1.4 and 1.5 i got new tires like 5 months ago. and now i barely have any tread on the inside of the tires. and if your going to use eibach or tein springs get the illumnia's, they can handle the drop better from what i have heard, and they are adjustable..

yeah you can just replace the shocks/springs, no need to replace the control arms...unless you break the bolt like i did

and a camber kit would be nice if you dont wan t your tires to wear so fast.

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by xteg01 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">yeah you can just replace the shocks/springs, no need to replace the control arms...unless you break the bolt like i did

and a camber kit would be nice if you dont wan t your tires to wear so fast.</TD></TR></TABLE>

toe causes wear, not camber.. so a camber kit is not necesssary.

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toe causes wear, not camber.. so a camber kit is not necesssary. </TD></TR></TABLE>

im just speaking from experience...my car is lowered and the tires are like this

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so the inner part of my tires are a lot more worn that the outer part.

camber kit will make the tires look like

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With such a mild drop using Eibach Pro-Kits or S-Tech's, you won't need a camber kit IMO. What you do need, however, would be an alignment to get your toe back into spec.
I also have a drop similar to yours, H&R Sports, and do not have a camber kit. I only had an alignment done, and 5K miles later, my tires are wearing fine.

Yea i had Eibach Sportlines on my old EG. They have more drop than the Pro kit. All i did was get an alignment after the install and my tires were fine.

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YES, camber causes wear. just not as much as toe. a a car with properly aligned caster and toe will still eat tires with bad camber.

thanks for all the information everyone! I think I will just drop my car and have it align.

thanks again

my axles are starting to take a **** after about 20K miles with a camber kit. if you don't drop the car too much, you'll be fine with proper alignment and more frequent tire rotations.