Well, my car is about to hit 73K miles and I heard it's good to change the suspensions. I'm the second owner and kinda of driving it hard this past couple of weeks learning heel and toe in corners. Recently my car have been making a bunch of squeeking noise when I step on the accelerator, and going over bumps. I know it can't be my brakes since it was change 2 months ago with the tires to Kumho. I'm not a track person or anything, but I like to drive around corners on my daily roads which are smooth.

So, I'm planning to buying the Koni Yellow, but don't know what springs I should get. I don't go to the track or do autox, just a daily driver. I'm also on a tight budget also, and got one of the sponsor to sell the Koni Yellow shocks/struts for $475 shipped. There's also two springs that I've read alot of rev about and it's GC and Eibach. I think I'm going to get either springs on Ebay, since I don't see any Sponsor selling them. Also, my budget is $700-900.

Any suggestions and did I miss out on any other parts?

My car is a 98 4Door GSR stock.

 

I just wanted to say excellent choice in cars

 

If you are just wanting to sharpen the car up for street use, I tend to think going the coil-over route is overkill. Stick with good performance dampers like the Koni Sports and pick a set of good lowering spring like the Eibachs that don't drop the car too low. Coil-overs are great tools for making lots of adjustments, interchanging springs, etc. but for street duty that is really more than most people need or will really use.

 

i had a set of koni yellows on my 4 door with neuspeed race springs. i loved it except that the rear was a bit too low for my taste. I liked a slight rake look, and how it makes turn-in feel sharper. i even had the Sp3 versions, with the rears on the highest setting, and the fronts on the lowest. Also, before the neuspeed's i had ITR spec H&R sports, which had the fronts even higher than the neuspeeds.

 

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Eibach ProKit is a good compromise. The Sportlines drop the car too much IMO.

 

Guess I kind of made up my mind and going to get the Koni Sport with Eibach Pro. I don't intend to drop it at all, maybe the max is an inch. So is that all I really need for new suspensions? Also, what's these sway/something bars that people said to get. What would those bars do? Thanks ALOT!

 

You will be amazed at how your car wakes up with good dampers and a good set of springs, you don't realize what you are missing. I'd suggest doing them first and see what you think. If you feel that you want sway bars after that, then do them as Phase 2 but they are not mandatory for street use.

 

Thanks alot for the reply. Guess I'll get these sets on before summer ends and see how they go. Anything else I need to get other then Koni Sport and Eibach Pro? Thanks

ALso, any good read for suspensions, and struts?

 

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Those two will be a very good start.

if you want to get into engineering or racing discussions, there are some decent books out there but there won't be much that applies to your real world uses and the great and common risk is that you might mislead yourself when trying to apply it. Honestly, for the discussion and general understanding of tuning production based suspensions and especially with focus on Honad and Acura, H-T is probably the best data source that i know if. Don't beleive everything you read as there is some chaff that you must sift through but most clueless or misleading posts tend to get shot down here. There is a pretty experienced knowledge bank here on many levels .

BTW, your Integra's suspension uses shocks and not struts based on your suspension design. A terminology technicality that gets regularly mixed up.

 

just to make sure your car feels good, and something that's convenient to do while the suspension is out, is to replace the suspension bushings. they should be ok after 79K, but new OEM bushings (not polyeurethane) will also improve the car's ride and handling.