Straight up, I'm tired of feeling every little bump in the road with my skunk2 pro coilover setup. The handling is pretty good, but considering that I'm doing nothing but spirited driving every few trips in the teg, it's not worth it to have such an uncomfortable ride. I'm riding around lowered about 2" (no gap above my 16" wheel/45 series tire combo), and when any passenger is in the car I just don't enjoy having them feel like they're in a horse carriage.

I've decided to grab a pair of 325lb gc/eibach springs and pair them up with the softer of the skunk2 springs that came with the pro-s'.

I'm assuming that the skunk2 pro shocks are decent pieces, since they come wrapped in springs with a fairly high spring rate (~500lb front) and are good for lowered rides. If my understanding is screwed, then by all means enlighten me. I'd rather not stay ignorant

So, will my current skunk2 pro-s shocks be a good match for the lower rated springs? If they will not, why? How will a shock matched to higher spring rates react to new softer springs?

Here's a video I recorded earlier with my phone held firmly against the top of my steering wheel. This is a fairly bumpy road right near where I live.

YOUTUBE

Random fyi, there are no major changes in weight (full interior, no subs, etc).

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by omnirage &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Straight up, I'm tired of feeling every little bump in the road with my skunk2 pro coilover setup. The handling is pretty good, but considering that I'm doing nothing but spirited driving every few trips in the teg, it's not worth it to have such an uncomfortable ride. I'm riding around lowered about 2" (no gap above my 16" wheel/45 series tire combo), and when any passenger is in the car I just don't enjoy having them feel like they're in a horse carriage.

I've decided to grab a pair of 325lb gc/eibach springs and pair them up with the softer of the skunk2 springs that came with the pro-s'.

I'm assuming that the skunk2 pro shocks are decent pieces, since they come wrapped in springs with a fairly high spring rate (~500lb front) and are good for lowered rides. If my understanding is screwed, then by all means enlighten me. I'd rather not stay ignorant

So, will my current skunk2 pro-s shocks be a good match for the lower rated springs? If they will not, why? How will a shock matched to higher spring rates react to new softer springs?

Here's a video I recorded earlier with my phone held firmly against the top of my steering wheel. This is a fairly bumpy road right near where I live.

YOUTUBE

Random fyi, there are no major changes in weight (full interior, no subs, etc).</TD></TR></TABLE>


from my experience with the new sk2 shocks, i wouldn't run any spring rate that is lower than 380lb up front. I had the sk2 shocks with 380lb spring rates (dropped 2.0-2.5inchs) and i had bottoming out issues. I was running 205/50/15's. I didn't have the pro-s full coilover setup, i bought the shocks seprate. I was told from sk2 that that there pro-s shocks are exactly the same as the skunk2 shocks sold separatly.

 

I don't have the new pro-c shocks, if that makes any difference. Also, I bought these old pro-s shocks almost two years ago. Someone on team-integra mentioned something about a newer version of those that came with softer springs.