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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.  

Springs or Coilovers?

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.

What’s the Difference between Lowering Springs and Coilovers?

Lowering Spring Kit

• Contains only four replacement springs to go on to your stock OEM shock to replace each corner of the car
• Some kits contain bushings for noise reduction and squeaking (TEIN kits do)
• Costs around $200-$400 for a full kit

Coilover Suspension Kit

• Fully pre-assembled shock and spring replacement for each corner of the car – includes new rear spring and rear shock if it is a separate spring/shock setup for your rear axle
•  Most coilover kits come with new upper mounts to bolt in to your chassis, if not, then you re-use your stock upper mount from your stock struts that you’re replacing
• Height Adjustable – you can raise and lower your ride height at your command with an included wrench
• Dampening Adjustable (most higher end coilovers) – you can change the hardness of your ride from cushy to tight
• Costs around $850-$3000 for a full kit

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.

The Bottom Line

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.