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So I took on this car knowing the problems cause I got a good deal on it (in my eyes). The suspension is shot, squeeks, bottoms out.... I want to redo everything. What's the best route as far as parts and brands are concerned? How much am I looking at? thanks guys.

 
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Go coilovers. Theyre nice, and ride height adjustable. If youre just crusing the streets, go with the Tein Basics. Theyre an awesome brand and affordable. Just my .02

 
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What is your planned use? Daily driver? Compitition?

 
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+1 and what's your price range?

 
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Tein's super streets (SS) are nice, thats what i'm going with, good for the street as a dail driver, but also good for whipping around corners on the back roads or autocross down the road. BTW, group buy is going on. They are expensive though. talking 1100-1300

 
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ZZyzx always deserves rep he is the the suspension guru. Him and robbclark1 .

 
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yea daily driving as well as just taking some turns nicely. a lower would be nice... nothing crazy, just to fill that wheel gap. Price range is 2k max. I want to replace everything.

 
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2k will get you a BITCHIN set of coilovers.

 
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I'm trying to get a group buy going here -> https://www.civicforums.com/forums/8...-blues-gb.html

Tokico Blues FTW! we need more people!

 
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Well, I could describe a suspension setup + alignment that would probably give you every thing you're looking for and not brake the bank. It will be contrary to what most the tuners tell you though.

 
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I'm listening....

 
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Well, contrary to popular belief, for best handling you want to run as soft of a suspension you can get away with. Why is a soft suspension preferable? Simply because low suspension frequencys allow for the tires to follow iregularities in the roads suface better, giving you more mechanical grip. Now there are are a couple of factors limiting how soft a suspension you can run. The biggest being tire choice. Which explains why race cars run such high spring rates... its not because they want to, its because they have to thanks to the level of grip R compounds give. After that, the amount of static negitive camber on the nose will be your next limiting factor. If you can only run 0 deg camber, then you'll need to stiffen the car in order to keep the tires contact patches flat while cornering... where as if you can run -1.5 deg you can afford to run a softer suspension as the static camber will insure that the tires are rideing flat while cornering.

so... given the above, this would be my opinion on a really good street setup.

1. One of the many different lowering springs (they are progressive so they are as soft as springs get in most cases) Pick one that gives you about the drop you are looking for.

2. A good camber kit, front & rear (alignments can make or brake a cars handling potential)

3. Good performance dampers, Konis are one of the best, but Tokico makes some good dampers too. Try to go with adjustible. (and no its not to adjust your ride quality)

4. Initially I wouldnt change your anti-roll bars, as it would be best to re-learn and tune the car with the alignment + dampers. But if you must pick up a stiffer rear bar (dont bother with the front yet). The 06+ RSX bar would be a good cheep place to start, or maybe one of the type R bars (they tend to be cheeper then their aftermarket equivelents)

A good way to look at this would be we are trying to maximize the use of what ever tire you happen to be using. the grippier the tire the stiffer we'll need to make the cars suspension in order to maintain proper roll stiffness. but ultimatly we want to run as soft of a suspension as we can get away with.

 
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alright thank you so much. that helped a lot more and cleared up a lot of questions I had to myself.

 
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good info..... +1 to you mang!