Yes so me and my friend were trying to put on new matrix coilvers on my 93 integra ls with stock shocks. Now i kno matrix isnt best but just wanted put some new stuff till get money for better . But anyways we put togther and isnt workin we think maybe recieved wrong order or something the springs i got are almost 2 times smaller then stock spring.

and was told by somonelse they thing wrong order because way to small need other opions
plz help take all advice

thank you

 

thats all you got? a spring? coilovers come with more..

 

Where are the sleeves? If that's all you got then those aren't coilovers, those are just some really short springs.

 

sounds like an ebay buy

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by djtsmith007 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">sounds like an ebay buy</TD></TR></TABLE> agreed! oh, and they are supposed to be short like that, only, it looks like something is missing in them, like the sleeves? With the nuts that come on the sleeves, they can be made taller looking, or lower looking. ie: when you slide the nuts toward the top, the spring will be taller, ect...

 

those are coilovers but no sleeves. haha you got ripped off.

get a hold of the person u got em from if u can and id suggest not even dealing with everything, get ur money back and buy coilover sleeves from somewhere else.

 

no i have the other parts i just wanted to kno if the spring looked really short i will post pics of whole thing together tonight.But when put togther the spring wansnt even close to being tight u could move up and down with your hand and this is with weight of car on it

 

How tall is the spring?

I picked up stiffer springs for my GC's and I went with 7"f and 8"r i think or vise versa. Depending on the ride height and/or shortened shocks, i have seen 6" springs before and possibly 5".

Ali

 

This is what shocks look like with OEM-style springs on them (stock or regular lowering springs). You can see the spring perch way down near the brake line bracket.



Now this is what they look like with coilovers. You can see how the spring perch is much higher up on the shock:

 

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by tcrintegra &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Yes so me and my friend were trying to put on new matrix coilvers on my 93 integra ls with stock shocks. Now i kno matrix isnt best but just wanted put some new stuff till get money for better . But anyways we put togther and isnt workin we think maybe recieved wrong order or something the springs i got are almost 2 times smaller then stock spring.


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What is not working? That length looks right.

 

im tryin do my best to explain will take pics tonight of what looks like to give better idea but since the spring is so much shorter once we put on shock and put the suspension back togther the spring wasnt even close to being tight with weight of car on it like u could grab the spring and move all around with your hand

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by tcrintegra &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">im tryin do my best to explain will take pics tonight of what looks like to give better idea but since the spring is so much shorter once we put on shock and put the suspension back togther the spring wasnt even close to being tight with weight of car on it like u could grab the spring and move all around with your hand</TD></TR></TABLE>

When you assemble the shocks and coilover sleeves, the spring will be loose. However that's only when the suspension is fully extended (either off the car, or suspension at full droop). Once you put the car on the ground, the springs will compress.

If they still don't compress even with the car on the ground, then the car is totally on the bumpstops, which pretty much makes the springs useless, and in fact will make the car pretty dangerous to drive.

 

well if that is the case anything u can do about or how do i tell?

 

its funny cuz you say that you know matrix isnt the best... but did you know they are actually complete garbage.... these are just as bad as the no name ones on ebay.... you would have been 1billion times better off buying some lowering springs like the H&Rs about 150shipped on ebay. or the eibach springs that go for about the same..... and like that the car would have handled somewhat good....

but those those are at the bottom___ those equall garbage.... insted of buying those if you wanted to lower you should have just cut your springs...... it would have been the same **** and that would have been free....

 

Are you installing it with the sleeves set to the lowest setting or fully extended?

 

just a little help so you don't get ripped off like you did...save money and buy the good stuff don't waste money and delay time on buyin **** parts..if u save ur money instead of buyin those you can p[ut that money towards good suspension.

 

how much did you buy them for? im guessing around 40 bucks?

 

looks like springs that came out of a golf cart.
wait.. golfcart springs would perform better than those