I've had my H&R race / illumina combo for about a year now and my car just doesnt have the correct stance I want. It looks, on level ground, that the back is actually lower than the front. There is like a 1.5 finger gap in the front, while the back is about 1 finger.

Now, i recently read on H&R's site that on 96-00 civics with race springs you can cut the bumpstops for an additional .5 inch lower front and rear.

My question is.....

Should I cut the front bumps and leave that back, because that should ( by what they are saying) even it out and give it the ride im looking for.

I searched on here, archived and recent, and found others asking this and no one gave a difinitive answer. Patrickgsr from like a year ago said it would do nothing by cutting them, but I would like more feedback before dropping the idea (pun int), or cutting the bumps.

Thank you

 

bump. Any thoughts? Please? I need to know if i should get a time to have this done tomorrow by my buddy at honda

 

I was thinking of getting the race springs for my 99 ek, do you have any pictures of the stance?

 

I though you were suppose to cut the bumpstop in the first place.

 

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correct sir,

to the OP, you should of have cut your bump stops in half on all 4 corners. Keep the upper half and throw away the lower half.

 

As mentioned, you were supposed to trim the bump stop when installing in the first place.

However, as you were told by Patrick before, cutting the bump stops will not change the ride height unless the car is currently sitting on the bump stops at rest, in which case your suspension is not really working.

A picture of the car as it sits now would help.