BretCarlisle

Hi, im a high school teenager who just wants to make his civic a ricer. lol. What is the best or cheapest way to lower my 2001 coupe ex. It is about 8 inches off the ground and the wheels are about 16 inches.

REXAZZ2

Have you ever drove or rode in a lowered car ?
I thought it was a great look until I drove a lowered mini truck
That ended my desire

Wankenstein

Cheapest way is eBay lowering springs ( not advisable)
Best way is with a quality set of coilovers: Koni, Tien, Eibach, etc..

ezone

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Wankenstein

No Platinum?

xRiCeBoYx

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don't go completely cheap on suspension. Just a prefaced warning. It's basically the thing that links your car to the ground. Catastrophic failure of cheap components often means bye bye car.

That said, there are cost-effective ways to do so safely. And by cost effective, I'm talking like.. sub-$500.
Tein Street Basis Z - THmotorsports.com $488.96 shipped
These are adjustable coilovers, so you can adjust the ride height as you see fit. Fair warning, it's kind of a pain in the *** to raise/lower them, but it's doable. These, you can adjust from a .73" drop to a 3.1" drop. Reuse factory top mounts, or spend another $200 and get the pillowball upper mounts, which double as camber adjustment (for the front). If you want adjustable dampering (stiffness), look at the Tein Street Advance Z.

Alternatively, you can go the spring/strut combo, kind of a "set it and forget it" way. This is what I did on my 2002 until I came across a damn good deal on Tein Super Street coilovers (yeah, I'm a big advocate for Tein suspension products)
One of the popular setups for the 2001-2005 civics was Tokico HP struts (a.k.a. Tokico Blues) and a spring set that gave a moderate drop (Tein S-Techs is what I went with originally; 1.3"/1.4" drop Front/Rear)
FR strut (Passenger Side) - $152.84 shipped
FL strut (Driver side) - $147.70 shipped
Rear Strut (works on both sides) - $105.04/each
THmotorsports' website isn't playing quite nice, so I couldn't find a link to the s-techs. However, found a really good price for them ($148 shipped) at HPTautosport.com. I can't vouch for that site since I've never used them, however.

CarID (one of our site's vendors) also has some damn good pricing. Not sure about shipping costs though. I'm not sure if they do any forum-special pricing, but it wouldn't hurt to PM them and ask. Worst they can say is "sorry, we don't." They do, however, price match.
FR for $93.78
FL for $90.62
Rear for $128.90/each
Tein S-tech springs for $208

You are gonna want to invest in a camber kit, if you don't wanna spend hella money on tires. SPC has been a fan favorite of the 7thgens because they're cheap and they work amazingly. Rear camber kit consists of adjustable upper control arms and the front is a cam bolt. I never used the cam bolt so I don't know how they work. The coilovers I went with had the pillowball upper mounts, so that's how I adjusted the front camber.

Do the math to figure out how much the components would cost, toss in another $100 or so for an alignment (yes, get an alignment right after you swap them. You should get an alignment every time you separate the tie rods from the struts, really), and you got your approximate cost of lowering your car. If swapping them yourself is intimidating, spring swap is the first thing I ever did on my car, and 18-year old me had no damn idea what I was doing. I just had this forum and a "f- it, this is happening, and I'ma do it" attitude, and it worked out very well. Before that, I knew how to change oil, change a tire, and struggled changing brake pads. Do it yourself, learn some crap, save hella money. We're here to help if you need

I did purposefully provide links to THmotorsports product pages for a few reasons: free shipping for orders $100 and up, some damn good prices, and site loyalty, since they used to be a vendor on this site and they've done me very, very well over the last 15 years ordering parts.

Another side note. If you decide to search suspension components on your own, make sure you find stuff that is made for 01-02 civics only. In 2003, they changed the crash bolt size from 14mm to 16mm. That said, unless you find some adapters to make up the extra 2mm (I'm not sure if they make those or how safe they'd be), you're better off buying something designed with your car's specs.

edit: to give you an idea of what the tokico blues/s-tech combo looks like installed, here you go. Found some pics I snapped back in 2004. lol




The rear is a bit lower than it should be because back then I had a heavy *** sub box in the trunk. Thing prolly weighed about 100 pounds.

xRiCeBoYx

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That's what spray paint is for

sdaidoji

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Minimum you need is springs and shocks
shocks will go bad quickly with stronger springs (they need to be stronger because there will be less distance for them to stop before they hit something)

ever seen the cars going "boingo, boingo" at every bump? they are the blown shocks. Would not look too good doing the boingo, boingo.

read:

https://www.civicforums.com/forums/4...questions.html

rk97

How has no one suggested dating fat girls?

xRiCeBoYx

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Congrats. You just made a bunch of old guys at the VA clinic stare at me like I'm crazy. Tried my hardest to stifle a laugh, but it didn't work

sdaidoji

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lol!