Ok. I'm installing the AGX shocks and skunk2 coilovers this saturday. My car had some coilovers on it when purchased. My question is this... How do I know how much I am dropping it???

I have 225/40/18 tires on it. I've heard that the AGXs wont live long on a drop of more than 1.5 and it voids their warranty.

The problem is that not having the car stock before, and not knowing much on the subject, I have no idea how I know that I am at 1.5 drop when I get them on and start to adjust them.

Can someone tell me how much well space there should be with these tires and that much drop. I don't want to end up dropping more than 1.5, and end up with a back breaking ride, as well as voiding the warranty of the shocks.

Also. how would be the best way to adjust the shocks with these springs. Should I just set the damper halfway all around, or what?

 

Personally I'd stay at 1.5. I'd imagine you could go as low as 2 but Icould be worng.

 

Yeah, I am thinking about staying at 1.5 (Or at least not go past it) but I don't know when I have dropped 1.5 is the problem. I got the car with aftermarket wheels and coilovers. So I have no idea how much drop there is on it so that I know how much I am dropping when I put the new suspension in.

 

Come on guys... no one can help???? I need some info so I know what I'm doing Saturday.

 

Well no one can say that beyond 1.5" of drop the shocks will blow. It's not like 1.6" is going to be playing with fire.

Just bring it down to where you like it, see how it rides. If you keep one or two finger gap (yeah, finger gap method is pretty arbitrary, but you get the idea) and that should be fine. Sure, if you slam it 4 inches and are tucking tire, it's going to put a lot of stress on the shocks, but the difference between 1.5 or 2.0 inches is pretty minimal. It will depend more on how stiff the springs are, what kind of roads you drive, how you drive, etc.

 

Ok, but what I'm trying to find out, is that if I have let's say a one finger gap on a 5th gen, with 225/40/18s on it... how much of a drop is that?

 

If you want to know that bad, go find a random 5th gen Accord in a parking lot and measure the wheel gap. They are ubiquitous, 2-3 of my friends own stock 5th gen I4s, shouldn't be that hard.

 

Drop it like it's hawt, drop it like it's hawt, drop it like it's hawt....

 

I tried measuring the ground clearance on a stock one, and according to that, my rear is only dropped a little over an inch, but I have no gap in the back. And I was thinking that this might be incorrect anyways, because it doesn't take into account that when you put the 18's on the accord, it makes the accord sit higher than stock. So unless I'm wrong about that (someone will correct me if I am,) then that method would not work unless I find a 5th gen on the same tires as mine, with stock suspension, which now lowers the amount of them out there greatly.

 

if you got tires that closely match the stock diameter, within a couple of percent as you should, the height shouldn't be very different. for example, my 215/45/17s are 0.4" wider in diameter than my stock size, so the car will be 0.2" higher off the ground. it may look different because of the sidewall height vs fender gap ratio, but the actual height of the car should be virtually the same.