INSTALL: Ok I installed everything Thursday night. My mechanical resume includes I/H/E a short shifter kit, some shifter bushings and a rear sway bar and now these coilovers. Needless to say I am not the most experienced DIY mechanic. The install took me 10 hours, in my defense there was not a single scrap of paper in the box and I had to borrow the wife’s car and make a run to rent a spring compressor and I was working alone. It really was not that hard to do the real time eater for me was the constant stopping and thinking about what I was doing and making sure I was doing everything right ... that and constantly getting tools I left on the other side of the car. I took the wheels off last night and double checked all my work and everything looked good. I do have a full install how to in the works but I am waiting for a reply email from the manufacturer, I want to make sure he approves before putting anything out there. Also please note I have only been running this set up for a few days it will take months for me to be able to fully review this product.

REVIEW: I will start by saying that while installing I did rotate my tires and the fronts were in very bad shape so any claims of increased handling performance will be a little subjective.
The Pros: Since Thursdays install I have driven in wet and dry conditions, and driven at speed up to 90 mph. While set on the softest possible setting the ride quality is very near to stock, so much so that my wife teased me about it not being any different. This is really an accomplishment considering that my car is at least 2 maybe 3 inches lower than stock. At the softest setting my wife and I took a road trip up to baton rouge (aprox 70 miles) and at interstate speeds I noticed none of the bounce effect some have reported at such speeds. As far as performance wise there is very little body roll, very little. When accelerating and braking the car feels incredibly solid, and trough turns there is also very little body roll, my sister said and I quote “it feels like a space ship". I decided to test it on the hardest setting last night and I managed to change my wife’s tune:twisted: . The ride was sufficiently rough enough to shake your teeth out, which on a race track I assume would be a good thing. So all in all I am very happy with this set, it can be near stock or race car hard.

The Cons:
This will be a small section and let me start by saying that these "cons" are either things I expected and should be expected with coilovers or simply engineering limitations. The only problem so far is that my car has a much harder time with pot holes and old or poorly maintained railroad tracks. Bumps like these feel much more serious than they used to even on the softest setting. I will also say that this dose not bother me I expected a much rough ride than I ended up with. One other thing to note is that the height of the rear of my car as seen in the pictures is at the lowest possible setting. From examining the rear suspension of my car it seems like this is a mechanical limitation of the suspension layout itself and is the fault of the way the car was engineered and not the fault of AMR. The front however I think I could almost get to touch the ground.

Well that’s about it, if anyone has any questions let me know or if you just want to talk about the set up in general you can always hit me up on aim, I am usually on at work so mon - fri 8 - 4 on central time.

The Pictures..... The weather down here has been **** so this is the best I could do for now :roll:

 

Outstanding. They look great man! I've been waiting to see what people think of the AMR coilovers. What kind of drop did you do?

 

Lower! It looks like my drop on my Si
and I have the Tein S-Tech springs only

 

Props on the write up!

I like the way you explained the characteristics of the ride compared to stock and the differences from the stock.

Hope to hear more as you test them out further

 

thanks for the replies, I could go lower but this is a car I drive everyday so it needs to be livable. tomorrow makes a week that I have had them and I am still very happy with them. There have been no supprises, except the massive increas in wet weather traction, I played around with some mild launching last night. The roads were wet but empty and I rarely entered 2nd gear aggresivly. But in a condition where all I usually get is wheel spin I would actually hook up much easier. I wish now that I would have run this car at the track before the install because either its all in my head or I am getting of the line easier and faster.

 

Nice write-up, oh and by the way, what's the manufacturers website?


Modified by elklodgeezra at 5:26 AM 2/2/2007

 

nice write up! they look good

 

very nice where did u pick them up from?

 

Would you be willing to get them dyno'd if we got enough money for shipping to Eibach (who will do it for free) since AMR won't dyno them.

Jon

 

Bobby, thank you for pointing me towards your review. I want to thank you again for your patience while we finished development on our new series of coilovers. Glad you got one of the first sets. I'm glad you were able to tell that we were able to get the softest setting pretty damn close to stock, while the max setting is stiff as hell. I competely understand what you are talking about, that it's pretty close to stock, but when you run those pillowball mounts it tends to make the suspension just a tad bit more aggressive in certain situations. It's nice that the girlfriend let me use her car the whole time we were making the coilovers for the 2006 Si. When I gave her 2006 Civic Si back to her, she gave me her personal review. It's still good to get a womans opinion, especially when it comes to driveability. So even at the softest setting you still have that tad bit of..you know. It's hard to put it into words, but I'm sure you get me. Without the pillowball mounts we could have probably made the car run identical to stock, but in your application a pillowball mount is beneficial. I look forward to your how to, thanks again for taking the time to do this. If you need something Bobby, just hit me up.

 

Not really, I understand that you just want info and I have heard your arguments on corner weighing but dude seriously, this set cost me right around a grand. Its low, it corners better it feels better and its a street car. Sure if it were a track car and I spent 2 or 3 grand like the premeium race set ups cost I would want dynos and I would want my car corner weighed but this isnt a race car. If my corners arent balanced I dont care, this kit dose exactly what I wanted it to do at the cost I wanted to pay for it. If you want dynos and a bunch of technical print outs go buy a set of zeals or spoon coilovers. I am not trying to be rude or a smart *** and I opologize in advance if my comments are offensive to you.

 

Great write-up man

 

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I understand your argument, but in the same vein, I can find dynos of 300 dollar sets of Illuminas. I have also seen dynos of Zeal and Spoon coilovers, and they aren't worth $2500, but the only way I found that out was by looking at dyno graphs (and my experience with Zeals). A manufacturer not being willing to test their product makes me suspicious, but Andy hasn't had any complaints so I will hold judgment.

Jon

PS: The writeup was good, I am not arguing against you, I just want info to be available so people can make an informed decision.

 

I understand that, the bigest reason for me saying no is that I am way to lazy to uninstall and reinstall these bitches.

 

King Bob,

Any other pros or cons to add now that you have driven on them alittle more?

Spoke to Andy and he was very helpful. Seriously considering these.

Thanks

 

i love the story. i wish i had time like that, a whole day of just wrenching on my car i give to you .

if its not too much to ask, can you post a pic of the fender gap with a cellfone or a dollar or something. if you dont have the time its cool. but im also in the market for a suspension drop.

again, very nice write up.

 

I think he has more pics coming. He's probably just a lil busy. Cause I think he is going to post a install how-to.

 

I ordered a Skunk2 rear camber kit last week and hopefully the AMR coilovers will be my next purchase when cash allows.

Get ahold of me Andy if you have any sales on them, I might be able to buy them a little sooner.

 

its been over a month and I still cant say anything bad about AMR

AMR coilovers = highly recomened by me

 

nice good to hear...

 

You ever get a chance to post that how to?

 

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Pm feature works.

No reason to bump.

 

Great write up and great color(same as my Si), I was thinking about going with coilovers, but decided to go with springs and struts. Props to you for doing your own wrenching, it's the best feeling in the world.

Enjoy your work.

 

Looks great, AMR is a great company and I will go with them from now on for all my suspension needs.

 

that drop is hotttt son.