Modified by PHILEE at 11:54 PM 5/20/2008

 

 

HELP BUMP

 

did you put the rears on the front?

 

i think it looks good....

but yeah ur probably have to get new stuff to get the height that u need

 

Easy... ditch those and get some GC Coils, or S2 Coils. That way you can adjust it to the height you desire.

 

i highly doubt i have it switch backwards . can it be due to struts or something?

 

TTT

 

no such thing as being to low

 

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One way to tell.....if your car's *** is up in the air like it wants to lay out a huge fart...or it kinda resembles that of this:



....then yes....you have the springs on backwards.

 

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lol. I'll have to disagree! Maybe for looks it's cool....sometimes... but other than that there is nothing advantageous about it! lol.

You're right man, your car is WAAAAAY too low! It's not good to have the wheels tucked like that, especially with 14's. And not only will your car handle like ***** when its that low (despite common belief that the lower you go, the better your car will handle, there are MANY other things to consider when it comes to handling) but you're probably scraping on everything too I bet.

I think that it's going a little bit further than simply putting the back springs on the front, though, because even with the added weight of the engine, there is absolutely no way that it would tuck a 14 inch wheel! The drop you have on your car right now I would guess is somewheres around 4 inches. Which is ridiculous. They either sold you the wrong spring, or there was someone stupid who wrote the specs on that box. I gave up on the "$100 specials" awhile ago lol. And shocks are meant to control the rebound rate of the suspension, and has no bearing on the car's ride height.

I would put the stock springs back on there and get some GC coilovers like someone suggested above! And then I would eventually buy some new shocks to go with those to get the most out of your handling and ride quality.

 

i've never heard of any spring at all that drops 4". First thing i would think is that you have your springs on backwards, with the short ones in the front and the taller ones in the rear, if not, try measuring your spring and see how long it is

 

maybe saging spring? they went out already?

 

go back to stock before you blow your shocks. ditch what you have and get ITR springs/shocks/rear LCA and call it a day or a GC/koni setup.

 

here's a quick, cheap fix until you figure out a long term solution: https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=2272386

 

is the back of your car jacked up in that pic?

 

check to see if the springs were cut. my old hatch had eibach sportlines that were cut to dump the **** out of it. car handled like ****. the guy i bought the car didnt think the drop was low enough for the vx's it was on so he cut the already low springs. this is how low it was. i miss my hatch. *tear*

 

i still think you put the rears on the front.

every time i've seen this, that is the reason.

 

Pavement sniffers FTW

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by JThrasher79 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i still think you put the rears on the front.

every time i've seen this, that is the reason.</TD></TR></TABLE>

 

before you do anything else.... did you move the car to level pavement? cause first it looks like your sitting on a driveway... second... you need to move it so the suspension can settle cause if you jacked up the rear and lowered it back down you might still have some tension on the front springs...

just a thought

 

low da only way togo

 

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i got a set of eibachs from an eg and the drop is perfect

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by dumada9 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i've never heard of any spring at all that drops 4". </TD></TR></TABLE>

Me either unless it was one of those ricey "coilover" springs. but it looks like its dropped about that much (like 3.5 to 4) because it takes A LOT to tuck a 14 inch wheel. If those were 16's they would be waaaaay up into the wheel well.

I'm pretty sure that if the springs were on backwards, he would have made a not about how the back seems very high off the ground still lol. I think someone screwed him over and lied about the springs he was getting.