I have a 94 Civic EX and i want to lower it. I only want to lower it a little bit. What is the best way to lower it for a smooth, daily ride and what else would i need for it so that i dont have camber? Would i have to buy camber kits and lower control arms and all that?

 

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What is the best way to lower it for a smooth, daily ride
-You CANNOT ride slammed AND have a smooth ride!


Would i have to buy camber kits
-No, you DO NOT need camber kits!!!!!!!!

 

QUALITY coilovers

No

No

 

If you just want to lower the car a little bit i would just get lowering springs. I would recommend Eibach springs they usually have a smooth ride. although anytime you lower the height your going to have negative camber which effects tire wear. A while back i put springs on that lowered my car about 1.25 inches to about 1.50 inches and didnt have a problem with tire wear. but yea when you significantly lower the car you will want a camber kit installed.

 

the FAQ was made for a reason!

 

define a little.

0.75 or 2 inches?

a little is individualized to each.

 

just get some decent lowering springs. i have an extra set of eibach sportlines if wanted. you could get coilovers but you only want a small drop so springs would be fine. also remember depending on how old your shocks and struts are you may consider getting some new ones at the same time

 

Eibach springs are affordable and ride pretty decently. If your going to put them on your old shocks depending on the mileage it might not ride as well as you'd like, kyb shocks or koni shocks are a recommendation. And anytime u lower a car your going to want to get a 4 wheel alignment to limit your tire ware.

 

I have been look at eibach springs and I think ima get the pro kit. The car has about 160,xxx miles on it Si maybe I should get new struts too?

 

You'd be going through more work to compress the stock springs, remove them from stock struts, and put the eibach's on instead of buying new shocks and putting the springs on. Because if you ride with those springs on stock struts, you're going to blow the struts some time anyways.

Don't cheap out suspension, it's not style it's a safety feature/necessity. What if you don't get the right ride height on Eibach pro's?

 

Yea id recommend new shocks. Your gonna already have it apart to change the springs anyways might as well kill two birds with one stone. I have koni shocks on my coupe with ground control springs and coil over perches. Rides like a dream. Get an alignment as soon as u can after lowering it.

 

Eibach Pro kit with Tokico 5 way has been the smoothest for my ride.

 

+1 Great combo for a mild drop, I was going to recommend exactly this.

 

Many also say its good just to get coilovers cuz if u just get springs your shocks are just gonna go bad anyways. COilovers for the same price help you get adjustability.


ON a side note I got AMR coilovers can someone here please give me specs of ride height from bottom of center cap to the fender please.
I need to see if the mechs actually dropped my car 2 inches or not.

 

What specs are you talking about? Did you not measure the car before you had them install them? If they are at the visual height you wanted then I wouldn't worry. Now if you're dead set on exactly 2 inches what if you find out they only lowered it 1.8?

 

sadly i did not measure the gap for the fender. Got too excited and wanted the AMR on it.

can someone give me the measurements from the bottom of center cap to fender?
heres a pic of my drop.
Its finger gap i was just thinking to raise the front half an inch cuz it hurts hearing quiet scrapes. lol

 

Just raise it up half an inch. You don't need stock measurements as it doesn't matter since you're not stock.

 

 

wtf, why don't you just take out some measuring tape and measure both sides?

EDIT: lmao wrong quote

 

You have no idea what you're talking about. Get a ruler or measuring tape. Do it yourself. I'm going to assuming you know how to adjust these yourself?

 

I wanted to see what my measurements are since im on coilovers and compare them to stock measurements. Use your head and common sense before reporting your mediocre thoughts.

 

Compared to stock? For what purpose? Just to know? Useless.

 

 

just so he can see if he got a 2" drop, yo!

 

Then park next to a stock car.