This winter Im goin to order suspension for my 4th gen.. I am goin to go with tanabe front & rear upper strut bars, tanabe front and rear lower sway bars also, and skunk2 adj. coilovers.. But Im stuck on what shocks to go with Im between Tokico HP shocks/struts (light blue) or KYB AGX shocks/struts (red).. If anyone has any sugestions on which shocks i should settle with I would appricate it..

 

tokico blues are stock replacements... illuminas are the adjustable ones
or you could just do it right the first time and get koni yellows

 

Koni Yellows, hands down. Back when I had my Civic, I had 5 different suspension setups. The best one by far was my Koni yellow/Ground control coil over setup.

If I was going to do suspension on my Lude, it would be Koni/GC for sure.

 

thanks if anyone has any other good suggestions or info let me know

 

Strut bars don't do much, esp in a good chassis like the Prelude. Skip the Skunk2's and buy Ground Control. Neither of your shock options are good, go with Koni Yellow's.

 

koni yellows are a very nice option

 

this car is also a daily drive not track so i dont think i need to spend 600 on just shocks alittle to pricey..

 

Skip the strut bars, and front sway-bar. Spend the savings on Koni.

Rear-bar, get the ST.

 

From riding cheap shocks with springs for a long time, then going to KONI's, I will also say find some KONI's, used if you need, thats how I got mine.

 

I hear the AGX's are ****. i'm really frustrated because i've been sitting here for 35 mins looking for the site I went to years ago that tested many shocks popular for todays market on a dynamometer. basically IIRC most of today adjustable damping shocks have a **** method and don't even work. out of a given batch of shocks, when adjusted to full hard wouldn't change from the middle setting and full soft would be sometimes way too soft, or get harder. Basically they are very unpredictable. I remember there was a shop that was trying to get a group buy of shocks for a specific model and test the shocks and group into pairs of similar compression and rebound rates. with even the same make and model many shocks don't have similar rebound and compression rates. I think it was D2 who used to have graphs of their shocks/coilovers on the website but the new site doesn't seem to have it. (help anyone?)
I don't know if there is a good suspension write-up on here, there shoudl be..

https://honda-tech.com/forums/suspension-brakes-54/%5Bfaq%5D-shock-dynos-1104049/

take a look there to learn a thing or two..

I would really like to remember where i found that write-up, maybe someone else can find it. if there is an informative thread like the one posted above with more information, please show a link. WAY too many people buy shocks and coilovers and end up with a lowered, shitty handling car. sorry for going on and on, it's late and i can't help it

 

well thanks guys im goin to order this things over winter so i have alot of time to order these things im goin to go with the yellow koni, skunk2 coilover with the tanabe front and rear strut bars and tanabe lower braces

 

Skunk2's don't with the Koni's, and if iirc the quality isn't great. You can search the suspension forum for the details.

You strut bars and lower tie bars are an absolute waste of money, any brand.

 

alright then what coilover should i go with the koni yellows i just dont want it to ride super rough or super bouncy either

 

Ground Control. If you're just dd'ng the car, go H&R Sport springs.

 

the car is my daily driver but i wanna go coilovers cuz i dont want to slam it real hard like on lowering springs i wanna be able to adjust it cuz i dont want it super low i just want it to huge the tires better so maybe a 1-1.5 maybe

 

You should do some research on how much lowering springs lower the car before pissing money away.

 

thats why im on here tryin to get some helpful advice on it

 

Two points, first most lowering springs won't drop your car on the pavement, they give a 1-2 inch drop usually. Thats why you just need to do research. For example, Neuspeed offers 2 different springs for our cars, a small drop 1-1.5 inchs with more relaxed rates, and a "Race" that drops 2.25-2.5 and is stiffer.

Also, the Koni yellows have an adjustable perch, aka they have 3 different setting for where you can have the spring perch at, so you can drop or raise the car that way as well. Normal Koni's have 3 settings, the Neuspeed version has 5.

I can say, with my setup, Neuspeed Race springs, and the Neuspeed Koni's, I have my car too low to drive comfortably, and it is so low it doesn't handle as well as it could, the angles on my control arms are too far off from level to start, let alone when compressed. I will be raising it back up about an inch when I get around to it. Looks sweet though!