Originally Posted by MrFatbooty
The operative question is, what exact features do you want?
At the very least I'd want some kind of shock adjustability, a threaded spring perch, and a shortened shock case.
Other features which provide some benefit are threaded lower shock mounts and pillow ball upper mounts. The lower mounts allow you to tailor the length of the shock case for the ride height, which preserves suspension travel. Pillow ball upper mounts provide a more solid mounting at the top of the shock and also help to gain back some suspension travel from lowering. Suspension travel is a good thing, since it allows the shock more of an opportunity to do its job.
If you want a better price on Teins check out tmengineering.net; a few Miata guys have bought Tein Flexes from them for real cheap. Before shipping they charge $840 for the SS for the Integra, and $1200 for the Flex.
Tein Flex, BTW, add the threaded lower mounts and pillow ball upper mounts. I'd probably get the Tein Flex for $1200 before I'd go for those N1's.
I looked at the FLEX system, and while the Tein people assure me they have better shocks than the SS systems (which I'm sure they do), they have the wonderfully practical springrate of 9/4 :eh:. I want to keep my suspension as unbiased in it's turning as possible, and judging by the rates, both those and the N1's would give me more oversteer than what I'm looking for.
But I'm looking to foster an extremely neutral and predictable road habit, lots of cornering stability, and a rather streetable drive that wouldn't make my car a chore to do errands and road trips in. I'm looking to keep the springrates around 6-10 kg/mm with adjustable shocks, and I think that with those rates, the installation of pillowballs wouldn't make it too difficult to live with.
My ideal system would be if JIC would make the damn FLTA-1s (5 step adjustable shocks with pillowballs) for the DC2. They only make the FLT-1s (non-adjustable version without pillowballs) for just about every honda except the 97+ prelude, and if I could get the FLTA-1s with a 7/5 spring rate, that would fit my needs rather nicely.
The Tein SS system doesn't have threaded lower mounts?
