Well, since a New Year has started and I am thinking about switching my coilovers from Skunk2 to Ground Control. The reasons are because sometimes the car rides stiff and each time you hit a small hole on the road, my *** can feel it. Now, i'm getting tired of it and I am going to switch it up because i want more comfort since my car is always daily driven.

Now, I had the Skunk2 coilovers on my 94 Honda Civic for a good time, maybe 2 years now. I was wondering if I switch it to Ground Controls, do you think my KYB GR2 shocks need to be replace? The shocks seems fine to me though.

I am a poor college student btw.

 

Poor college students shouldn't be pissing way money modifying cars. Your shocks are blown and probably have been for a while. Swapping out springs aint gonna help the situation now.

 

I'm a poor college student too, and I have Recaros ($1200), Volk CE28N wheels ($1500), and Progress coilovers ($600).

You can afford quality stuff, you just don't have the patience like I do to save your money.

Save up and buy a quality suspension (Like I did with the Progress CS-II) and you'll be a lot happier.

I manage to pay rent, insurance, save money for retirement, buy organic groceries, pay tuition, and fix up my car making all while $9/hour between my two jobs which I work while going to school full-time.

It's a matter of fiscal fortitude, nothing more. While I don't think financial advice is necessarily something we should discuss regularly in the suspension forum, we do talk about buying the right products the first time in order to save money in the long run and ultimately have less headaches and nicer cars.

That said, most college students don't have the same work ethic I do, and then I stand by what grumblemarc says, most college students don't have the time/money or financial security to have money vested into an expensive hobby.

 

It's true what you are saying but at least I am putting effort into trying because the car was more like a hands-me-down car given to me from my brother. He maybe didn't do his research about cars at that time to know what kind of quality suspension or parts to get but at least i am trying to get something done here. I am a full-time student who doesn't have that much time and money because of my engineering program. However, if i could save up, i would want to do what you're doing; investing into quality parts.

 

My point there, is that you can save up. If your budget isn't so tight that you can't afford to eat or do any luxury activity like eating out, you can save up. That's the whole point. You only think you can't save up for better parts because you aren't factoring time into the equation.

Anyone can afford $5,000 Motons for suspension, it might take you 3 years yo save up for it though. Being able to afford something and being too impatient to save for something are two totally different things.

Now, if you just can't justify spending more than $800 on a coil-over setup based on your uses for the car, that's totally different than "boohoo I'm a poor college student."

"Boohoo I'm a poor college student" tells us you need to be spending your money on books, not frivolous purchases like dumping money into your commuter when you could be dumping money into your brain instead.

To answer your question, you're really going to need to tell us what spring rates you have and what spring rates you'd like. Also, if the car is extra low it doesn't really matter what rates you have, you just plain aren't going to have enough suspension travel to matter.

Springs are springs for the most part, what really matters are the rates and that you have appropriately matched dampers. GR2's are not going to handle reduced suspension travel very well, nor are they valved appropriately for high spring rates as skunk2 springs are often "too stiff" for most.

 

Poor college kid or not you need to pin point the problem with your suspension not just throw parts and it and hope you solve the issue. If you are good at diagnostics you just saved your self a few hundred bucks (put that towards suspension).

If you want a better ride I would go with KYBs and Eibach/H&R lower springs to give you a nice ride but keep in mind your car will be raised a decent amount. If you want it lowered some more I would recommend going with our Ksport Springs which give you a 2" drop all around.