Cut springs or Coilovers?
 

Gotta 90 Prelude Si. Tryina drop it a little. debating on cuttin the stock springs, or get a cheap set of coilovers. not looking for real performance gain, i'm more tryina get the slammed/flush stance.

Both are going to give you a trashy ride. If nothing else, just spend the coin and get yourself one of the better sets of junk c/os like Megans or Tiens or BRs.

Or, actually spend the money to do it right.

Either one of them could potentially fail on you while driving down the road. But that's a chance us people take! Id say cheap coilovers

I was lookin around at some coilover systems, because i have a weird car that not too many ppl work on, hardly any companies out there make any type of suspension upgrades.

lol cut the springs.

Those coilover sleeves probably wont even fit the shock perches correctly. I say neither.

lol get like really low pro tires.

Cut the springs so you wreck your car. Its the cool thing to do.

Drive with tires or no tires? You tell me which is the stupid choice....

- amyn

or cut tires, because they help with cooling.... lol

for like $200 you can get legit springs man.

^lowering springs are whack though


if you want to be low, pay up. do it right, dont cheap out.

i would cut the coils. so much easier, cheaper and more fun!...

Coils with front/rear camber kit

/story

yeah dont cut the springs or get sleeves i had them on my civic and you hit a bump and bounce a mile down the road....... but it was low

If youre prepared for a pretty much bad ride go for either mad people are rocking both

Cut springs, definitely.

i have cut springs on my s2000. do it, don't listen to anyone

sleeves are easier than cutting springs...and id rather say i have sleeves than cut springs...you can change also your hieght with sleeves

Make sure you heat the springs before you cut them ;)

Besides the weight savings from the missing coil is like 15hp!

Also, won't the struts fail if you cut the springs or do lowering springs? I thought you had to buy all that stuff to match.

lmfao jeff.I'm debating on it all... im still lookin around for anything. there really isnt anything out there suspension wise for a 90 Prelude Si. i finally found lowering springs online, after searching a ****load of forums. i found decent drop springs. I was told they would work with stock (but brand new) struts and strut mounts. i'm if-y about it. i'm still scouring around to try to find something else (adjustable coil-overs). Very hard to find anything. I'm definitly not going for Ebay setup. But i'm not necissarily going for performance either. i more or less want to just get rid of the massive wheel-gap i have.

Why don't you just do the most logical thing here, cut the springs it's free if you don't like it buy coilovers your driving the car nobody else I dunno why you asked opinions the springs should already be cut.

i want somethin thats gonna be dependable. i'm asking opinions cause i'm trying to see what people say is good/bad idea. one way or another, my suspension is getting dropped. it's just a matter of what i finally decide.

Coils. I tried cut springs. They gave me the look I wanted, but the ride quality was horrible.

Like they say on b20vtec, "do the right thing cut them springs." lol at trying out stance with cut springs. +1 on originality though since i havent seen that body style prelude stanced out.

Its rare, but its been done. There's actually one on here that's really clean.

If you can't find springs, your stock ones are kinda soft, so throw some lead weights in there to drop it a lil. You said you weren't worried about performance lol

:rotfl:

I found quite a few badass 3rd gen preludes. Mostly German, but badass none the less.

Behold said rare clean ass preludes

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2651/...f598c04c_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2569/...7f5ed0bc_b.jpg

http://i851.photobucket.com/albums/a...a/dt9k9pdo.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...Misc/euro1.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...Misc/euro2.jpg

if you wanna see how your car looks slammed or lowered go tothe junkyard get some struts and springs cut them for a test look.

or ride with no springs.


ive seen modded preludes of that gen, its not impossible. not many people modify my gen of civic, yet their is a few parts out there. what kind of chassis is it? do any of the other parts from the older hondas fit? Id do more research before you cut your **** up and have it ride like poo.

You can always measure your struts outer diameter, buy some summit sleeves and get some hypercoils. Gixxerdrew on supraforums essentially did that w/ Blistien shocks.

You do know grous control makes coil over kits for like 330 bucks for your car right.

ground controls :thumbup: