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crzyCollegeKid, do you know that your car already has coilovers? Yep, that is correct. It has a coil spring mounted on a perch connected to the shock/strut.
The coilover term has been thrown around quite a bit. The worst part about it is, you are thinking that coilovers are those silly little things attached to a spring called adjustable sleeves. Even those are not the true coilovers that the aftermarket refers to.
Have you heard of Tein, Cusco, Bilstein, Ohlins, JIC, Kei Office, Zeal, etc, etc? Maybe you should look them up, because those are the real "coilovers." This the highend stuff, these have adjustable damping rates, adjustable height, sometimes adjustable shock length for more travel, and even sometimes inverted shocks by design.
Oh and the reason your cars bounce around on every little bump in the road, is because you guys are stupid enough to lower it at insane levels without higher spring-rates and are bottoming out on the shocks or making contact with the bumpstops. Even if you didnt lower it that much, the "coilovers" or even SPRINGS that have DO have high spring-rates are overworking your shocks/struts(I don't know which Preludes use). Your shocks are only valved enough to work with the OEM spring-rates and cannot handle much more than that. Sure your car looks "cool" and feels like a race-car, but it definately isnt fast. It is probably slower around a track now than it did with the stock, well-engineered components.
Get your noses out of Import Tuner and all the other ricer magazines and gain some real knowledge instead of spreading bullshit you pickup from these magazines or the local ricer club.
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