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I own a 2002 Honda Civic Coupe EX, and I bought a set of these coilovers: R1 Racing Sport Coilovers. I know its just the sleeve kit, but I really want a great suspension on my car and I know some shocks and bars are neccessary. Can someone please tell me first of all how low I should drop my car and what else is neccessary for me to get in order to have a clean cut percise performing suspension?

 
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hey bro!

I have R-1's i have generations 2 though. The place i bought mine from said that the first series they released was put out for retail but it DOES NOT WORK! So i assume with EBAY you dont really know what your getting, other than the picture i guess right? Also, R-1 did not change the appearance for the gen 2's.


I think Whoever is selling these on Ebay is selling the ones that dont work!!!!!

By the way R-1 is mace by hyper industrys.

www.24hyper.com!!!

By the way i love m R-1's.


But if you want performance get GC's! they handle better PERFORMANCE wise because they are stiffer. R-1's are fairly soft. But if your like me and do city driving (not auto cross) you should like these. hope this helps, look at my member pageclick here

 
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dizzle that link dont work...
"but I really want a great suspension" uh.. then why'd you get r1s? and for a great suspension SHOCKS are a MUST. you'll see the most improvement out of springs/shocks then you will with any bar

 
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VNlilMAN,

Why must you FLAME everything except Neuspeed?? You have told me your self you have NEVER used OR RIDIN in a car with R-1's.

Its a CIVIC dude! How high performance can you really get??????????

 
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i dont flame everything except neuspeed, it's just i prefer them over the rest. [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/IMG]
true i never rode on r1s but i've heard complaints about them. why would i want to try it when people complain about it. also if your looking for "performance" why sleeved coilovers? especially when they're one of the softer ones..
if your going for performance you dont get sleeved coilovers, you get true coilovers of lowering springs.
soft sleeved coilovers are probably the worst thing you can get if your looking for performance.

i see you finally got pics up, nice... how's the flowmaster exhaust? loud/quiet? deep? it doesnt make the civic sound like a mustang does it? how much was it?

 
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It's all about the R-1's man. They're what you need to have a clean cut precise performing suspension. Oh yeah, the generations 2 though. Who care if it's only a sleeve kit. You should slam your car 3" front and 4" back to get the most clean cut precise performing suspension. [IMG]i/expressions/laugh2.gif[/IMG]

Oh man, I'm sorry. I'm being mean.

It's like this...

First get new wheels and tires. 16" are the best with tires as wide as 225. Get tires slightly smaller than stock diameter to give you better gearing. Use the tire calc (located at the top of this site) to see what's what. Then drop your ride. Look at the aftermarket suspension parts for the RSX 'cause they're very similiar and all of them will fit on our cars with little to no modification. Get something like that cup kit with a set drop and new shocks. New shocks are a must! The stock shocks can not be lowered. They will blow out sooner or later and the ride will be crappy.

Then get a camber kit. The front you may not need since it doesn't camber in as much as the rear when you lower. For the rear I'de get the Hotchkis for the RSX. Very clean kit and friendly towards ABS equiped cars. Then take your car to an alignment shop and get a full alignment. Front and back.

Then get anti-roll bars (AKA sway bars, AKA stabilizer bars). I'de get the RSX's 19mm rear sway bar if you plan on driving your car on the streets hard. If you plan on doing some autocross then I'de get the full kit from Progress (27mm front, 22mm rear /w rear tie bar). I wrote up a DIY on it, check out my sig. That or the Hotchkis sway bars for the RSX. The rear one is beefier and the front one isn't. Plus mine already has too much understeer, so I don't get why Hotchkis chose those diameters? It's not only the diameter that's important though, so maybe they did some testing? [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/IMG]

Anyway, then after you get sway bars I'de get front and rear strut tower bars (AKA strut bars). Get the Spoon Sports rear strut tower bar ('cause it's beefy and it's Spoon!). Then you have a choice of a Mugen front (too damned expensive, but very good) or the Spoon front. Both from an RSX of course. The strut bars for Civics are pretty weak IMO, but maybe people swear by the Neuspeed front strut tower bar. At about $90 for the black one it's a fairly good deal too.

That pretty much takes care of the suspension. There are a few more tweaks here and there. Longer rear lower control arms for example. I'm making myself a set of those. [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/IMG] Front lower control arms from the Type R Integra (AKA DC5 chassis, AKA RSX Type R). Those are forged aluminum and they have stiffer bushings. Then you could swap in the electronic steering of the Civic Hybrid. That would be bad-***. Too expensive though. Then you could swap in the hydraulic 4WD system of the Japanese Civics; again too expensive and again too bad-***. [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/IMG]

That's about it though.

 
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No offence to us Civic owners but, our suspension sucks!

i have a 2001 accord coupe also and it handles better then my civic!

to Independant suspension.

 
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civics have independent suspension too..
and you cant compare a 20k car with a 14k car...

 
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tell me when they're in (btw ebay is not generation 2)