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Old Apr 15, 2003
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Angry bouncey ride

I just lowered my car with gz max power coilovers, the ride is bouncin around like rubber ball. what the f@ck can i do to fix this??????
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Get Koni yellows. Most likely though those springs aren't made for performance but more for looks. I'd go with a spring/shock setup or full coilover setup. Ground Controls might also be an option. Do it right the first time and you won't have to do it again
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gz max coilovers? i have never heard of those! but do what exnbp says
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true enough. my boys were tellin me bout some shock stoppers, something about removing them will this help, cause its hard to get a hold of some of the good stuff around here
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internet is a wonderful thing. IMO i would go with a true coilover setpu, if you figure in the price of a good set of springs and shocks your a few hundred under a set of TeinSS coilovers.
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true enough. my boys were tellin me bout some shock stoppers, something about removing them will this help, cause its hard to get a hold of some of the good stuff around here

WOAH! beep beep back the bus up . that's one thing u dont want to do.
i did that and **** 2 days later my front shocks, blew u want to keep thoes things on
and get new coil overs. dont ever ever ever ever ever buy no name coil overs, ull end up paying
like 300 bills for new oem sturts, and if u have it slamed they might have allready blown depending on how much uve been driveing. so go get some groundcontrols or skunk2 and and keep the bump stops and sell thoes to some lil ricer cheers
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true enough. my boys were tellin me bout some shock stoppers, something about removing them will this help, cause its hard to get a hold of some of the good stuff around here
What are shock stoppers? Are you talking about bumpstops? Removing bumpstops will allow more movement of the rod, but will lower the lifespan of the shock. I'd just put the stock springs back on and return to Honda for a warranty work. Then redo everything the right way by going with Koni's and Neuspeed/H&R sports or race. Koni's are adjustable to the ride. So you can have it stiff as fawk for racing and soft for just comfortable ride
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Thank you guys so much..... i have been having nothing but bad luck with this car. I need to do it right before i fu@k the car up..... I don't think that the shocks are fu@ked yet...... how do I know if they are???
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you goto the back of ur car and push on the trunk up and down, up and down. and let go and the car should stop bouncing after 1 cycle or less i think. someone correct me.
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Originally posted by speedracersong
you goto the back of ur car and push on the trunk up and down, up and down. and let go and the car should stop bouncing after 1 cycle or less i think. someone correct me.
Yeah, it should just go up. No bounce. My rear is nice. No bounce. My front is toast. It bounces up and down like three times before it stops (on a deflection of less than an inch). Bleh!
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whats wrong with your ride ?? for started you have no name coilovers, second of all you have sleeved coilovers not true.
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whats wrong with your ride ?? for started you have no name coilovers, second of all you have sleeved coilovers not true.


what do you mean "you have sleeved coilovers not true"?????????
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True coilovers have an integrated shock. (i.e. Tein SS, B&G, JIC)
Sleeve coilovers are just adjustable springs (i.e. ground control, skunk 2)

If you are still confused do a search. This has been explained a billion times.
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If u dont understadn true coilovers are adjustable springs with built in shocks and sleeve coilovers are adjustable springs sitting on a sleeve with no shocks. So u have to buy aftermarket shocks with those. U get a better ride with true coilovers because they have matched springs and shocks to work better.
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