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Old Feb 8, 2006 | 01:59 PM
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I having trouble deciding between the two. Which one would you recomend for daily driving. Ive heard good and bad about both. Pics and your thoughts about the ride of both would be cool too. Thanks
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Old Feb 8, 2006 | 03:55 PM
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H&R has a huge gallery on their website, I bet you can find a pic of a car like yours on there with either spring.

If you're gunning for more performance, and are ok with sacrificing some of the ultimate ride quality and want an aggressive drop the race is the way to go. Prolly gunna need some performance shocks at the same time if you're running on stockers.

If you don't want the aggressive drop, the sport is awesome, go with that.
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Old Feb 8, 2006 | 07:03 PM
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Sport are better as they don't lower the car so much to make it useless for daily driving. Meaning you can actually go over bumps.

Race are too low and will not ride the same as Sports because almost all shocks have trouble with a 2.5" drop
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Old Feb 8, 2006 | 08:16 PM
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Ill be using AGX shocks if that helps too

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Jgrahn &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">H&R has a huge gallery on their website, I bet you can find a pic of a car like yours on there with either spring.

If you're gunning for more performance, and are ok with sacrificing some of the ultimate ride quality and want an aggressive drop the race is the way to go. Prolly gunna need some performance shocks at the same time if you're running on stockers.

If you don't want the aggressive drop, the sport is awesome, go with that.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Ill have to check this out
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Old Feb 8, 2006 | 09:03 PM
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Stick with the Sports if youa re using AGX.
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Old Feb 9, 2006 | 11:00 AM
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get the sports for a daily driver. theyre a lot more practical for ride height and are smoother. if you want the race springs then dont get agxs , get koni's sp3s.
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Old Feb 9, 2006 | 10:26 PM
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you guys have pictures of the sport/agx?
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Old Feb 9, 2006 | 11:15 PM
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go with the sports bro....if your going to be a daily driver....theres going to be bumps everywhere and you dont want to me scarping your ride everywhere you go...but if your okay with that and like the drop...go with it...i have the gc with kyb adj, i dumped at first...looked great, handling was great but scraped way too much on my lip and ate up my tires quick even with my camber kit...
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Old Feb 10, 2006 | 01:39 AM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by VeilSide_Mas &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">you guys have pictures of the sport/agx?</TD></TR></TABLE>

Check out H&R's website. They have a gallery with plenty of pictures.
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Old Feb 10, 2006 | 12:15 PM
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I check the H&R site for pictures of cars like mine but im sure there are people on here who have better pictures then that....

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by bmoua &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">go with the sports bro....if your going to be a daily driver....theres going to be bumps everywhere and you dont want to me scarping your ride everywhere you go...but if your okay with that and like the drop...go with it...i have the gc with kyb adj, i dumped at first...looked great, handling was great but scraped way too much on my lip and ate up my tires quick even with my camber kit...</TD></TR></TABLE>

I have GC and blown *** GR-2's on my car now. I was going to just get new shocks but with springs im not tempted to lower my car. Thats what happen with the GR-2's. Kept lowering and lowering.....get my drift.
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Old Feb 10, 2006 | 08:03 PM
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Im on Race and I dont scrape
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Old Feb 10, 2006 | 11:23 PM
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dood,, I have H&R Race on a 1996 Hatch, and I ******* hate them. I mean they look cool from far, but when U have to drive and bottom out everyday, and ur sideskirts begin to loosen and fall, you know that you are way too low
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Old Feb 11, 2006 | 04:54 PM
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Do you guys cut them or something? I have them on the second from lowest setting on my Konis and its fine.
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Old Feb 12, 2006 | 04:26 AM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by B-Hatchie &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I check the H&R site for pictures of cars like mine but im sure there are people on here who have better pictures then that....

I have GC and blown *** GR-2's on my car now. I was going to just get new shocks but with springs im not tempted to lower my car. Thats what happen with the GR-2's. Kept lowering and lowering.....get my drift. </TD></TR></TABLE>

o..haha aite...but gr-2s are close to the stock shocks...well if you decide on the springs thats koo too...springs should ride better than coils...
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Old Feb 12, 2006 | 02:16 PM
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what car is that on and what shocks u have? care to post pictures on those who got the sports on?
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Old Feb 13, 2006 | 11:51 AM
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Well I decided to just get the AGX's and try to keep myself from slamin it to the ground. I dont want to be desapointed with the height of the spring and have to double back on work. **** with the $150 that Im not using for the springs, I might get Illuminas. So many options with Hondas and Acuras.........
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Old Feb 14, 2006 | 09:05 AM
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i have H&R Race springs... on stocks right no but i just ordered koni yellows. if you're worried about ride quality, speed bumps, tearing up the header/catback... don't drop your car. my friend has an EK with konis on GC coils... never anyting i mentioned above happened. just get some good shocks.
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Old Feb 14, 2006 | 07:34 PM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by mkazm83 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Do you guys cut them or something? I have them on the second from lowest setting on my Konis and its fine.</TD></TR></TABLE>
your prelude might sit differently on them than a civic.

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by B-Hatchie &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Well I decided to just get the AGX's and try to keep myself from slamin it to the ground. I dont want to be desapointed with the height of the spring and have to double back on work. **** with the $150 that Im not using for the springs, I might get Illuminas. So many options with Hondas and Acuras......... </TD></TR></TABLE>
why dont you get Konis? theyre better than Illuminas or AGXs and work well with GCs.

heres a pic of my car dropped on the H&R sports:
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Old Feb 14, 2006 | 09:29 PM
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nice drop , not too low
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Old Feb 14, 2006 | 09:37 PM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by VeilSide_Mas &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">nice drop , not too low </TD></TR></TABLE>
yeah, I'm happy with it...just enough to close up the wheel well gap.
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Old Feb 16, 2006 | 12:28 PM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by kjmagnum &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">
your prelude might sit differently on them than a civic.


why dont you get Konis? theyre better than Illuminas or AGXs and work well with GCs.

heres a pic of my car dropped on the H&R sports:
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Damn that does look good. Maybe Ill put those on my girls GS-R

Well I order the AGX's yesterday. I would have gone the Koni route but I would have had to get those sleeve things to make them work with the ground controls. Didnt feel like going threw the hasel. I really want to put most of my money into the GS-R. Then come back to the civic.
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Old Feb 20, 2006 | 07:00 AM
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it's so weird that i'm not getting much drop from my H&R sport maybe like 1.5" front and 0.9" rear.... will it alwways be like that when you first put it in? i have a gutted crx..... so the rear is real light? so im wondering will it affect the the height?

kjmagnum: what shocks did u use and did u cut the bumpstop or just did put back what u had stock on the car?
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Old Feb 20, 2006 | 10:32 AM
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you might not get much of a drop since your car is really light. I used Koni sports with my H&R sports and you are not supposed to cut the bumpstops.
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Old Feb 21, 2006 | 08:22 PM
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now i kinda wish i was on H&R race since the crx is so light
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Old Feb 23, 2006 | 09:58 AM
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Slam that b*tch with some h&r race spring.
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