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By Spitfire Riggz
#195986 He means to lower it. Slam it. Spank it................ im pretty sure lol
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By jerko
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Spitfire Riggz wrote:
chilango41 wrote:Its true what jdm_ferio said, its YOUR car.
If you dont live in a place where the winters have snow then you should just get some lowering sprinngs, skunk2's have worked for me :thumb:


Yeah im hoping to get some skunk 2 lowering springs too! I agree jerko coilovers are TOO expensive! I like your car man, the black looks WAAAYYY better than the red inserts! I have 17's too :thumb: but for some reason yours look way bigger! Maybe its kuz yours are black and they blend in with the tyres? kuz i have 205 40s too


You don't think skunk 2 will be too much of a drop for 17" rims? I thought they would be...so i've been looking at tein s tech's which are less of a drop. But if you all think skunk 2's will work...I would rather go the skunk route. Heres a link for skunks on ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/HONDA-CI ... ccessories
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By jerko
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Spitfire Riggz wrote:He means to lower it. Slam it. Spank it................ im pretty sure lol


thats what I thought he meant. but wasn't sure. LOL
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By Spitfire Riggz
#195999 ^ lol thats what i thought he meant too. So both of us means more sureness! Anyway actually Skunk2s arent that much. Both our cars sit really high up, from the people i talk to you get coilovers to go LOWER than springs. Like i said on another post Kinta94 on here might sell me his Skunk2s because he wants to hit the floor. So hes going with some coilovers lol. I saw his car and he was almost rubbing tire, but his tires were huge! Im sure it will be perfect on 17s. If anybody could back me up that would be good. I also have the ex lip, which brings me down a tad bit. So watch that too.
By Boods
#196038 Hey :)

Love the coupe, hella clean. I guess it's the same with everything, rock what you want, not what people tell you to rock [Hell, I've got pink wheel nuts an 17s :P]

But I like it. Personally I don't like the rims, an I think having it with some black Rota Slipstreams'd look hella-sexy, but that's me :P

Also, I think your wheels look massive because your ride is so high! You thought about Coilover springs? You could get a coilover spring set, an some shocks for whatever £150 odd is in $$$.

It'd look mean lowered though! [Black inserts're better btw] :P

Also, what're your eventual plans for your car then? gonna boost/Bswap/kswap/just use it? :P
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By jerko
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Annoyingricer wrote:Hey :)

Love the coupe, hella clean. I guess it's the same with everything, rock what you want, not what people tell you to rock [Hell, I've got pink wheel nuts an 17s :P]

But I like it. Personally I don't like the rims, an I think having it with some black Rota Slipstreams'd look hella-sexy, but that's me :P

Also, I think your wheels look massive because your ride is so high! You thought about Coilover springs? You could get a coilover spring set, an some shocks for whatever £150 odd is in $$$.

It'd look mean lowered though! [Black inserts're better btw] :P

Also, what're your eventual plans for your car then? gonna boost/Bswap/kswap/just use it? :P

I'm thinking of the Tein S techs but recently I'm interested in the skunk 2's. My eventual plans for my car are a front lip and springs..very soon..within the next month. Within the next year I think a B swap would be tits up. I would love to boost, but I've heard you need to lose the A/C due to room space. I live near PHX, Az and its HOT AS HELL in the summer. I NEED a/c. LOL. It's my DD so I don't want to do too much to it. Thanks for the comments and honesty by the way. I appreciate it. If anyone knows if skunk 2's would be too much of a drop or not for 17's with 205/40's, please let me know. Thanks.
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By Spitfire Riggz
#196164 ^ what kind of lip you thinking of getting?
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By jerko
#196176 don't know what kind...but looking at the car from the front...the lip is thinner in the middle and thicker towards the outsides of the car. Actually anything will be better that what I have now...Looks like I have nothing. LOL
By Boods
#196200 My personal favorite lip is the Wings West lip, and also the Spoon lip. They're both like you described as well, with small vents on either side. I would link pictures but you can find both on google images I think.

I don't think you could drop your car too much in all honesty. If you get just simple Coilover springs, you can adjust your ride hight to what you want, meaning if it is too low, you can simply raise it a bit. You could make it so you're very low, but my worry with super-low is, as you say, Daily driving. [Speed bumps're a bitch]. It'd still make it look bad-ass, even with a little drop.

Also an idea - If you really want to turbo it, you could probably re-locate half your things [Battery etc] to make room to maybe move your aircon or something? I'm not entirely sure how it all works, but I've seen a turbo coupe, and I think he still had air con anyway!
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By dro21
#196232 Nice solid car.....but i dont think u can really drop your car too low since u got 17's....but welcome
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By jerko
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dro21 wrote:Nice solid car.....but i dont think u can really drop your car too low since u got 17's....but welcome

Aren't 17's & 15's close to the same height? If you put your 195/50 next to my 205/40...they're pretty close...right? So in reallity...skunk2's should work...right?
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By jerko
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Annoyingricer wrote:My personal favorite lip is the Wings West lip, and also the Spoon lip. They're both like you described as well, with small vents on either side. I would link pictures but you can find both on google images I think.

I don't think you could drop your car too much in all honesty. If you get just simple Coilover springs, you can adjust your ride hight to what you want, meaning if it is too low, you can simply raise it a bit. You could make it so you're very low, but my worry with super-low is, as you say, Daily driving. [Speed bumps're a bitch]. It'd still make it look bad-ass, even with a little drop.

Also an idea - If you really want to turbo it, you could probably re-locate half your things [Battery etc] to make room to maybe move your aircon or something? I'm not entirely sure how it all works, but I've seen a turbo coupe, and I think he still had air con anyway!

I checked out the lips your talking about..they look nice..but too pricey for me. I don't want to go super low...just some simple skunk2's is all I need. They should fit right? As for boosting..well...we'll see in at least a year for that.
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By Spitfire Riggz
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jerko wrote:
dro21 wrote:Nice solid car.....but i dont think u can really drop your car too low since u got 17's....but welcome

Aren't 17's & 15's close to the same height? If you put your 195/50 next to my 205/40...they're pretty close...right? So in reallity...skunk2's should work...right?


Yeah I was going to say that, technically speaking they are the same height. For every inch you go higher your tire profile gets lower. At least thats how its supposed to be. So yeah, dont worry unless you got a big ass tire. But dude dont trip the springs will tell you how low they drop you, just look for people with the same springs and you will see for yourself how yours will look. Do some math lol. Also just as a warning with lowering springs you cant adjust, so yeah you cant bring your ride up higher if you dont like it and you cant make it lower. Thats one big con
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By jerko
#196863 I purchased some skunk2's. Springs, not coilovers. They should be here friday. I work on Sat. MAYBE, I'll attempt to do it on sunday. If not...next weekend. I'll post pics when I'm done!!
By Boods
#196995 oooh nice :) do it, should be a good thing,

Also when you do it, could i beg for you to post up a DIY of fitting the shocks back on? Just because I'm too much of a woman to do it myself :P