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Adding a high quality suspension system to your Acura is crucial for further developing your driving experience and racing outcome. If you're looking to just add a set of coilovers to your car to make it lower, or a set of lowering springs for closing the tire gap, you'll need to upgrade your suspension with all new parts that Furious Customs is happy to offer.
We often find that suspension modifications come within the first few mods on a blank, untouched car. Just the act of lowering a car can make it look and perform drastically different and is often the most bang for your buck when it comes to car modifications.
Coilovers or Lowering Springs – an age old debate when first starting to modify your suspension. It’s true; upgrading your car’s suspension with stiffer lowering springs or coilovers dramatically changes the way the car feels and corners, not to mention the much better look that comes with a lower stance on the car.
For this article, we are using TEIN’s suspension components as examples – note the S-Tech Springs and Super Street Coilovers pictured above in their signature green color. Furious Customs carries this full line of high quality, Japanese engineered suspension products if you’re looking to get some new springs or coilovers on your vehicle.
Lowering Springs
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Coilovers
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Daily Drivable
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Yes
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Yes
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Max Drop
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~2.5″
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~4-5″ (depending on coilover)
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Vehicle Specific
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Yes
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Yes
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Reduces Body Lean
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Yes
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Yes
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Height Adjustable
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No
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Yes
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Plug and Play Installation
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Must manually replace OEM springs with new lowering springs on OEM shocks
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Yes
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Dampening Rate Adjustable
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No
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Yes |
If you’re looking to get that super low stance, then you’ll definitely need to go with coilovers. Additionally, since coilovers are mated to shocks to handle the higher load, they will last longer than the lowering spring / stock shock mix.
If it’s your first time modifying your suspension and want a complete package, we would definitely always recommend coilover suspension due to the versatility of the height adjustment, new shocks meant for the lower springs, and overall it’s just a better deal in the long run than lowering springs.
However we all have budgets and a $850 set of coilovers might not be the best thing for you right now to do to your car, and that’s where the compromise of the lowering springs comes in. Lowering springs are just fine if you’re looking to reduce some wheel gap (empty space between your tire and the fender) since they are inexpensive and make a world of difference on the aesthetic and handling of your car.