Hey guys......im havin an issue.....im looking at buyin a set of lowering springs for my race car....now we need to have STOCK only suspension but i wanna lower my car a bit for handeling purposes.....im figuring on buyin a set of lowering springs for a 92-95 eg civic....that way they are stiffer and wont drop it AS MUCH....only prob is.....ive been told by a buddy i need new struts or it will expletive my struts....is this true???....any help would be ****.....THANKS GUYS!!

 

last time i tried putting eg lowering springs in a ef the fronts wouldnt fit in the cap thing on top of the strut. could be different for stocks though.

 

well i can change the tops or get stock eg struts it dont matter....i jsut wanna have the stock struts....they wont be brand new or anything....but like what i need to know b4 i buy these are will they screw my stock struts and make them leak and ****?

 

anyone?

 

Why not just get the right stuff? The weighting of those cars is different.

I rock H&R Sports & KYB AGX's. Rides great. Fairly inexpensive.

 

well im gettin these for my 90 crx si which is a dirt race car...so i am buyin a cheap $60 set off ebay....and we are not allowed runnin them so if im caught wuth them and i throw em out its no big deal....i just dont wanna buy them if i gotta go oiut and buy sum new kyb struts or anything....i just wanna know if lowering springs will wreck my stock struts or not???

 

Oh wow. So you are putting springs on your stock shocks? Such a bad plan. It's gonna ride like crap. Ebay coils are an equally bad plan.

Do it right, do it once.

 

but its for a dirt circle track race car.....i dont care how it rides lol i just wanna know if it will wreck my struts lol

 

Ive used stock struts on a 2" drop, however I lengthened my top hats, its a cheap route. I rode like that for a long time with no probs, as did a friend of mine.

 

what did u do to raise ur tophats?

 

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https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=469485

searching is fun!

 

My setup on my STD hatch is cheap coilovers n stock struts I have not much problem only bumpy ride on certsin areas but good on highways but perfer to upgrade soon with complete suspension so if u looking for something like that for the meanwhile and you saying if it mess up your struts yeah it can

 

ive had lots if different set ups on diferent cars and a few times had ebay springs on stock blown shocks and it really doesnt ride that bad but some of the ebay springs ride like crap. if you dont care about the ride quality why do you care if your shocks are blown?

 

haha theres no way those top hats were in the front of a civic. they are WAY too tall. maybe in the back yeah...

anyways if you dont mind re-installing your lowering springs, you might as well just ride on your stock struts till you can afford some nice struts. who cares? its pretty safe to say that over the last 20-17 years they have blown out.

or if u can afford em now, buy the good **** right off the bat and save some time.

 

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I have hood spacers

 

The EF uses a short stroke shock (and obviously a spring designed to utilize that type of shock), that's the only reason I can think of that may cause you to encounter a problem if you use EG springs.

 

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My first EF sedan (DX) was on Neuspeed Race and stock struts, rode OK (probably due to low mileage, 99k)

My second EF sedan (EX) was on Neuspeed Sport and stock struts, rode like **** (struts were probably older than dirt, car had 250k miles on it )

My wife's CR-X was on Sprint springs (standard, not the Extreme RX lowering) and stocks, was probably the best out of all of them.

Lesson? Stock struts suck, will get the job done, but are not ideal for lowered cars.