91 HB lowering help

ya me and my buddy were trying to slam my car down to the floor got coil overs but it didnt seem to want to go down.. didnt lower it that much.. is their a trick to these EF's to slamming it down to the floor.. cuz it works on other civics 92+ but 91-88 has trouble slamming..

here's how my car looks now..


http://photobucket.com/albums/b317/EFkid/?action=view&current=P1010008.jpg

i just put those wheels on cuz it seemed to fit good plus i think it looks good in my opinion their 15's but i want to put 40 tires on.. those are 60's and i want it slammed to the floor pretty much

Did you adjust the coilovers up or down?

i dont know mine is pretty dumped. maybe you got shitty coilovers. or you adjusted wrong. check your adjustments. or just wait my cousin dumped his crx and it took a while for the spings to break in and it lowered

maybe his struts are still actually in good condition and they don't want to travel that far... won't last long though...

ya im pretty sure we adjusted it properly.. and the coil overs are shitty... but it worked on all the other year model civics execpt for the EF's

Shitty coilovers = shitty results

If the collars are all they way down then it's as low as it will go.

The trick to doing right: Spend $$$ on good parts
Lowering springs / good struts
or
Coilover sleeves / good struts
or
Full coilovers

All option will need camber kits & the correct size tires.

The lower you go the more you need to spend. That's if your not one of those people who think 4" drop sleeves on stock struts rides & handles well :loser:

What's with those tires man? Anyway, go with what this guy said ^^^

If that's as low as you can drop it on coils then you got crap coills. Are they full coilovers?

haha dont mind those tires.. hah just put them on for the hell of it.. wanna waste them either way so. but the coil overs i gottheir just the spring and the adjuster.. those crappy ones for 2bills at Pacfic mall

could do what i did for a while...take the sleeve off and just ride with the coil on...sat real nice...but i got tired of my exhaust pipe scraping...and 5th gen springs sit higher than 4th gen...was gonna swith with my friend and we compared the two

btw....itz an ED not an EF

haha dont mind those tires.. hah just put them on for the hell of it.. wanna waste them either way so. but the coil overs i gottheir just the spring and the adjuster.. those crappy ones for 2bills at Pacfic mall


I don't get ya man. From what you said, I'm assuming their sleeves?

If they are, then running sleeves on stock struts is a bad idea anyway. The struts will hit their bottom point way before the suspension travel hits bottom. I don't know what this does to the struts, but I do know it's bad.

I would shell out the money for full coilovers. Otherwise, you have to buy sleeves plus some struts that were ment to be bolted onto lowered cars. Either way, you spend about the same money. Yes, decent coilover sleeves are inexpensive, but you have to buy the right struts as well, which at least doubles the cost. Buy some real decent shit and be done with it.

besides the tires, i think where it sits now looks good. just my opinion

the spring it self is too tall ... i had shitty coilovers on my car all the way down but it only droped like 2.5"... i think its because they make so it will fit all the civics...88-91 92-95...ect ect,(i donno if that was already said...im to lazy to read the whole thing) not to mention that if you blow a strut your car will really handle bad and look funny bouncing all over the place