lowering your civic
08-01-2007, 11:18 AM
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lowering your civic
I got a 99 Civic EX with a stock suspension. I was thinking about lowring it and i got coilover springs sitting at my friends garage that i can use but no shocks. If i throw those on with my stock shocks will it be alright?
08-01-2007, 11:26 AM
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Re: lowering your civic (andoxviii)
This is more a problem of mismatched performance. Stock shocks were meant to hold up the stock 4x4 springs. Using them could yield results not worth the time it took to cut that corner. 
08-01-2007, 11:36 AM
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if you want your car lower, and dont want to pay for shocks right now, just do it. who cares, they'll blow eventually yeah, and if your camber is THAT bad then just pick up a camber kit. you will be fine.
08-01-2007, 11:41 AM
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Good luck with future damage control. Rolling on blown shocks through a pothole is what put me another $800 in the hole for new wheels AND tires (Yes, the pothole ate my tire too). IMO, not worth it. Just be patient.
08-01-2007, 12:09 PM
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Re: lowering your civic (andoxviii)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by andoxviii »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">No, don't do that. You will mess up your camber and your tires will fade out on the insides far quicker than the rest. Your ride won't be very comfortable either.</TD></TR></TABLE>
Anyway--now matter how you lower your car, you'll increase the negative camber. The lower it goes, the more negative camber and thus the more camber wear on your tires.
A 99 Civic can go PLENTY low without having the camber wear be that much of an issue. My 99 Si is dropped about 2" all around and the camber wear isn't all that bad. Sure, the tires wear faster than they would at stock height, but you'll still get 20-30k miles out of your tires (assuming they're not super-soft like Azenis)
Stiffer springs (especially ghetto cheapass e-bay coilover sleeves) will blow out stock shocks fairly quickly. If your car is still on its original shocks, just save up for some replacement shocks and do everything at once.
Anyway--now matter how you lower your car, you'll increase the negative camber. The lower it goes, the more negative camber and thus the more camber wear on your tires.
A 99 Civic can go PLENTY low without having the camber wear be that much of an issue. My 99 Si is dropped about 2" all around and the camber wear isn't all that bad. Sure, the tires wear faster than they would at stock height, but you'll still get 20-30k miles out of your tires (assuming they're not super-soft like Azenis)
Stiffer springs (especially ghetto cheapass e-bay coilover sleeves) will blow out stock shocks fairly quickly. If your car is still on its original shocks, just save up for some replacement shocks and do everything at once.
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08-01-2007, 12:23 PM
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Re: lowering your civic (andoxviii)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by andoxviii »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">
What, am I incorrect?
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My point was, whether you lower a car on $2000 Tein coilovers or $100 ebay coilover sleeves, the camber wear is going to be the same. Lowered car = camber wear.
That said, a 99 Civic won't have horrible issues with camber wear.
THAT said, stock suspension is better than crappy, cheap aftermarket suspension. Bad place to skimp.
What, am I incorrect?
</TD></TR></TABLE>My point was, whether you lower a car on $2000 Tein coilovers or $100 ebay coilover sleeves, the camber wear is going to be the same. Lowered car = camber wear.
That said, a 99 Civic won't have horrible issues with camber wear.
THAT said, stock suspension is better than crappy, cheap aftermarket suspension. Bad place to skimp.
08-01-2007, 12:28 PM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by gamby »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">
My point was, whether you lower a car on $2000 Tein coilovers or $100 ebay coilover sleeves, the camber wear is going to be the same. Lowered car = camber wear.
That said, a 99 Civic won't have horrible issues with camber wear.
THAT said, stock suspension is better than crappy, cheap aftermarket suspension. Bad place to skimp.</TD></TR></TABLE>
Agreed.
My point was, whether you lower a car on $2000 Tein coilovers or $100 ebay coilover sleeves, the camber wear is going to be the same. Lowered car = camber wear.
That said, a 99 Civic won't have horrible issues with camber wear.
THAT said, stock suspension is better than crappy, cheap aftermarket suspension. Bad place to skimp.</TD></TR></TABLE>
Agreed.
08-01-2007, 12:55 PM
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My old suspension was skunk2 sleeves and I went about 30K miles before I went and got tokico 5 ways. Now I have the PIC selects and like them a lot. But you should be fine as long as, like Gamby says, you don't go "too" low. good luck!
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