Looking for good Shocks??

[Hondalx]

My Ride is lowered on Sprint Performance Springs with about a 1.8- 1.9 inch drop. I have the SI Front and Rear Sway bar upgrade and a front Strut brace coming soon, but im rideing on Stock Struts and Shocks So i was wondering which Struts would be ideal for great cornering and handleing in general with out costing a arm and a leg??

[Crazi3ge3]

Try koni I'm saving my money for that.

[bluegreen86]

Koni, Tokiko, and bilstein all come to mind. All are great. I am assuming this is for an r18?

[Xtreme Thunder]

You are over lowered at 1.8-1.9" less stock height, hindering any thought of great handling and cornering. I am sure it looks great, but past 1.5" is not really good for what you are expecting in handling.

KONIs will help and are an excellent damper, but KONI Sport (Yellows) are designed to work best for ~35mm less stock height. Although, that does not mean you can't use them.

[greg porter]

On my Miata I had Tokico shocks and springs and loved them. Koni's have a good rep though. I'd say with either of those you can't go wrong

[jasyatz]

With that low of a ride height you are already hitting the bump stops so shocks won't make a difference. You need a higher rate spring and shock setup to improve on the handling if you want to stay at that ride height. Even with a 1.5" lower ride height, you will hit the bump stops during "aggressive" driving.

Either raise the ride height and get a set of Koni's on stock springs...or buy a coilover setup and play around with the bump stop lengths and spring rates until you get comfortable with the ride quality at the drop you want..

<<<<< Look at my profile picture to the left. During this autocross turn, I am hitting the bump stop with the LF shock. This is with stock springs at stock ride height with Konis installed and set on full stiff with race rubber. Also have the SI front swaybar on the LX to futher increase to front spring rate. This setup creates almost 1.1G on a skidpad with the race tires but closer to .95 with a very good street tire..

Stock suspension travel is a little over 2" on stock springs with stock shocks at stock ride height with an 175lb driver in the car. If you drop it 1.7 inches...do the math.

Turning maneuvers will hit the bump stops and cutting the bump stops (to make them shorter) only reduces the life on the shocks by forcing them to hit their travel limiters. A better shock will make improvements to the handling with a cut bump stop, but will eventually also fail from banging on the limiters from compressing them shorter then it's designed compressed length.

Do it right and it will cost you more in the beginning, but you will only have to do it right once..

[Hondalx]

Im looking at getting either the HFP Kit or the Skunk 2 Pro-S Coilovers or maybe switching to Sportlines and getting Bilsteins at the same time? Either way its all gonna cost about the same. The Sprint Springs Im running now are real stiff, I feel a lot through them even with the Factory grandma tires on.

[Xtreme Thunder]

IIRC Bilstein does not have a damper application for 06+ Civic's.