Adjusting coilover suspension ?'s.....

[SilverY2KCivic]

As many know, I have Tein SS coilovers. Recently I've been wanting to lower my front down a little more, and possibly my rears as well. I just finally got a 4-wheel alignment on my car a few weeks ago, and because of that, am hesietant to lower it anymore than that about "2 drop it's at right now for fear of messing that $52 session up. What my questions is, is would it tweak or change anything if I was to lower even just like 2 threads down from where it's set at right now? 2 threads down seeing so not much, but looks can be deceiving, right? Any answers to this would be greatly appreciated.

[CivicSiRacer]

Is it worth it? TO me it wouldn't unless you seriously don't mind forking out the $52 again. Two threads is like 1/4" and if I remember right your car will go toe-in when you drop it more. The car will understeer even more then.

[SilverY2KCivic]

Thanks for the input. If it's going to get things out of whack then it's definietly not worth it. I know when I got my alignment done, they told me that my toe was WAY off in front, and that I knew already because when I got my tires rotated the week before, my fronts were worn WAY down, whereas my rears were in really good shape. Hopfully the fronts wont have any problems other than camber issues, and good thing my current tires run only $50 per tire for the size i have. Camber brings me to another thing. My rear camber looks pretty off, yet when I got my rears put on my fronts when I got them rotated, the ones they pulled from the rears had almost no signs of premature wear from off camber. Were across the width of the tire was pretty much even, I founf that odd for how off my rear looks... Since my toe was really wearing down my fronts all around, I couldn't tell how much wear the camber alone was putting on them.

[CivicSiRacer]

Having more rear camber in the rear is normal for most Hondas. You should see mine Mine is 1.5 negative front and 2.2 rear. Where stock is around 0.5-1 negative.

Having rear camber will not wear the tires in the rear as much as if you had more negative camber in the front, cause the front tires are braking, turning, and accelerating more than the rear tires.

What I use to see if I need to rotate my tires is a micrometer/tire depth gauge. If the fronts have less tire than the rear I rotate them OR every 4000 miles. Since I autocross every weekend I cannot go by a 4000 mile schedule and have ot measure to make sure I have more tire tread up front.