I finally saved up around 6bills for a replacement. I have gotten the Skunk2 coilovers for free as part of a deal with my friend. They were used and now my front left spring seems to be sagging no matter how much I am raising the height on that end, but I am also running stock shocks. The ride is horrible but the handling is pretty decent except the bounciness scares me whenever I take turns and I roll over a little bump.

Since, I just got my 98 Civic 4dr for about a year I don't know much about tuning suspension. What is a cheap set up I can get (shocks/springs or coilovers) that is a bit softer than the Skunk2s and still stiff enough to have fun with? Right now, my car is lowered to 1 finger gap in front and 1 1/2 for my rear. I do not plan to go any lower for I will be scraping driveways or hills where I live.

My budget is $600.

 

Save up 2 more bills and get GC/Koni, or maybe GC/Tokico Illumina for 1 more bill.

 

GC/Koni

 

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I'm with them

 

Koni/GC are sick, but suck for being slammed. I had them last year on my slammed EG and I was always bottoming out. If you want to slam, get a fully body coil system.

 

even full body coilovers will bottom out "slammed", KONI/GC

OP:but that's weird that your skunks went bad I have them on my APEXi N1 full body they work great. But yes they are getting replaced soon due to age of shock.

 

Extended top hats should take care of that.

 

HHmmm, GC/Koni... Koni yellow or red? I'm planning on keeping the same height as I am right now. Would Koni Reds/GC work? I don't think I would need to adjust my shocks.

 

sorry to interrupt but what are top hats and how is it done, again i apologize for my rudeness n lack of knowledge

 

These are the top hats. The "extended" ones are taller and allow the shock to move up inside it more, allowing more travel!

 

where can i find sum of these

 

They allow more travel but you're still going to bottom out on soft *** springs. I'd imagine 330lb/in springs would keep you safe, unless your header hangs low like mine.

I can't run below 430lb/in springs up front, or else my header will be molested by Mr. Pavement.

 

If I was you I would get some Koni Yellows for like 500 and see how they work with the S2 coilovers.

 

Top hats will help with bottoming out but the best thing to do is to run higher spring rates up front. GC's OTS rates are only 350lb/250lb.

OP, if your planning to drop close to 2inchs or more i'd go with a 400+lb spring rate up front. When i was running 10k/8k (539lb/448lb) spring rates, while dropped 2inchs+ all around, i had no problems with bottoming out. Ride quality was still barable for me, to others it might not.

 

Okay, someone please answer my question about Koni Red/GC or Yellows/GC also what is S2 coilovers that "punkdown" above posted.