94teggy

Hey, I recently installed my new tein ss coilovers. I lowered my car all the way in the front and back just to see how low it'll sit. The rear ended up tucking all the way, but the fronts still sat about an inch above the wheelwell. Someone suggested removing the helper springs and raising the lower adjusting nuts? Is this a bad idea? Will it give a ****ty ride?

imported_jwald

tein coilovers come at ideal and recommended settings for ride height and spring rate..when you adjust the different settings you are altering the ride quality, stiffness, responsiveness, etc...by the way, how low do you actually want to ride? i would try smaller rims to lower your car more. my opinion is that tein coilovers are more about performance then ride height

imported_alwaysoverkill

rims won't ideally lower the car anymore then about 1/2" as you want to stick with as close to stock diametre through less sidewall when upsizing.

ie. 15" and 17" rims are the same when you run 195/55/15 or 205/40/17 as both are the exact same size overall diametre. But offset can be a bitch.

Also Tein is not so much about performance, have you seen the spring rates most come with...like 8K front, 4K rear....far from ideal. That said, you should atleast get a decent ride with them, but slammed all the way, still may get bouncy.

PM ROBB, I know he has Tein's and is wanting to slam an EF, so he may know more about them.

bbor-imported

My Tein SS for my 1990 civic Si came with 8k front & 4k rear.
The good thing about these rates is that the car is very tolerable on the street, especially bad roads.The handling is still much better than stock, and you can lower it all the way, but once a pothole shows up, it might bottom out the shock !

If you get higher spring rates, the ride quality will suffer (stiff)m but you will get much better handling ! For your car, I recommend 10k front, + 12k rear.
Also, the stiffer the spring rate, the higher your car will sit (lowered all the way), compared to a softer spring rate (lowered all the way).

Also, lets say your car cames with 8k spring rate, you can upgrade to 10k spring rate, without having to revalve your shocks. Just have the setting on the coilover at the stiffest dampening. TEIN USA says you can chaneg your spring rates +/-2 LBS without having to revalve you shock.
Here is a list of part #'s for various spring rates....
Look under : I.D 65mm springs

http://tein.com/stsp.html


Here's a pic of my civic, with TEIN SS all the way down.(sits a lil lower now after it has settled.)

kwyze

with the Tein EDFC would it do anything to the ride quality? or would it just make it easier for adjusting the ride height?

imported_alwaysoverkill

Correct me if i'm wrong, but the EDFC adjusts dampening electronically from inside the car only, so it serves no usefull purpose for daily driving.

imported_jwald

well it depends on how you define 'daily driving'. The EDFC system allows you to adjust the dampening setting from the driver seat or where ever you choose to mount it. It has three self-programmed memory settings that allow you to switch settings to take a highway ramp real fast (stiffer) then switch back to your normal setting (softer), just an example.

imported_alwaysoverkill

^^^ actually that would be cool. Driving on Steeles you could go full-soft, then when you want to play, just bam full hard or whatever setting. Not worth the money IMO, but that would be cool.

got the woman in the car, full soft...she starts bitching...full hard haha. "hows your back now...sweety" haha

imported_jwald

its good for street only if you want to corner a lot at different settings or pushing the limits in safe areas like ramps etc. At the track it helps a ton when lapping you can adjust based on the up coming turn if you can, otherwise you can asjust easy on the straits or things like that.