I have a 93 civic hatch and my question is If I drop my car 2.5 in will I still have a gap with my 17 in 5zigens wrapped with nitto 555's. If I still have a gap how big is it.

I'm worried about my fiberglas fenders and I don't want to break them when turning.I need about a 1inch gap in front and whatever in the back

 

No gap if you lower it by that much.

 

I want to use the h&r's race springs and those lower my car 2.5 are you 100% sure that those springs will not give me a wheel gap on my hatch

I have coilovers right now and I don't know how much exatcly i'm droped

 

2.5" drop on an EG hatch? hell no, if there's a gap it'll be like 1/2 of a finger. definitely no more than 1 finger.

 

so wich h&r's do you guys recommend

 

so you're saying you don't want to lower your car that much, right? you could use H&R Sports if you want to stick with H&R springs.

 

I want to be low but I don't want my tire to be tucked in If I go with the sport how big will the wheel gap be I need 100% assurance preferaly from someone that has had this set up or similar

 

my teg is lowered more than 3 inches, i NEVER rubbed with the 17's, and i dont even come close to rubbing with my LS rims.

 

why're you getting rid of your coilovers?

 

I want a niccer ride

 

what coilovers and what shocks are you running?

 

This is my car with neuspeed race springs and neuspeen koni yellows. The front perches are set on step lower then the stock setting and the rear at stock. I have 1/2 to 1" finger gap all the way around and have never rubbed.
Sorry it's not the best pic to show the drop but it's better then nothing right?

 

Sounds like it's time to break out the ruler...

 

im running skunk2 coilovers with koni blues and my rear ones are all the way at the bottom and the front is an inch above from the the bottoms so i gues its 3 inches low up front and 4 on back. There is no room to put a finger in there. These are 16 inch motegis by the way. Even with 3 inch i dont rub at all.




[Modified by GS-Rcivic, 10:47 AM 12/22/2002]

 

There are:
Koni yellows
Koni reds

No such thing as a "koni Blue", I think you ment to say Tokico blues.

 

My coupe is lowered well over 3 inches and I don't rub at all

 

my car is currently sitting on ground control copies and tokico blues and it is lowerd so that I only have about 1/2 inch all the way around but when I turned my fronts rubb. The reason I want to go with springs is to have a nicer ride the car has 17 inch 5zigens with the nittos 555's the reason I'm worried about rubbing is because I have fiberglass fenders.all I'm asking is will the race springs still give me a gap, since I will not be able to ajust springs.If the race springs are too low should I go with the sport. I need imput on personal experience with the race or sport springs of any brand and running on 17's

 

well your shocks are part of your problem. Right now your suspension is underdamped. Put some better shocks on there and I guarantee the ride will be better. Also the spring rates might not be ideal. You can have adjustable height suspension and still have a *somewhat* tolerable ride.

 

Let me explain something. Im guess that you think you are dropped 4 inches because there is 4 inches of threaded sleeve on the skunk 2 coilovers. If you drop your car to the bottom thread, it does not your car is 4 inches lower than stock. I bet stock is somewhere 1" or 1.5" from the top. The most you are dropped is probably 2.5.

My integra has coilovers, real ones. I dont think im dropped more than 2.5 inches, but i rub with 215 tires and my wheels (both front and back) tuck under my fenders.


[Modified by integra-modder, 1:26 PM 12/23/2002]