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This low key makes me want to put the stockies back on.
yeah, can't deny, when I was taking the prokits off...I looked at the spoon springs...then looked at factory springs...was like, should I just put the factory springs back on, lol.

The car is low enough stock. I remember when I thought I'd never lower it, lol
 

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yeah, can't deny, when I was taking the prokits off...I looked at the spoon springs...then looked at factory springs...was like, should I just put the factory springs back on, lol.

The car is low enough stock. I remember when I thought I'd never lower it, lol
Same here, never thought I’d lower my car since the stock 20’s look great and wheel gap was not an issue. When I put on my 18’s though, holy hell it looked bad—wheel gap galore. I ordered the Eibachs the same day I put on my 18’s lol.
 

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yeah, can't deny, when I was taking the prokits off...I looked at the spoon springs...then looked at factory springs...was like, should I just put the factory springs back on, lol.

The car is low enough stock. I remember when I thought I'd never lower it, lol
Yeah stock height looks great with the stock wheels but for some reason I feel like the wheel gap is super pronounced with any smaller aftermarket wheels. Might just be pictures.
 

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Yeah stock height looks great with the stock wheels but for some reason I feel like the wheel gap is super pronounced with any smaller aftermarket wheels. Might just be pictures.
Mainly because most of the time, people are going with a 265/35/18 which is about 1/2" smaller in diameter than the 245/30/20 so that creates about a 1/4" more gap than what it normally would have.
That along with the reduction in wheel size which creates a more darker area above the wheel and the wheels being less sunk makes it more pronounced than the 20s.
 


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Yeah stock height looks great with the stock wheels but for some reason I feel like the wheel gap is super pronounced with any smaller aftermarket wheels. Might just be pictures.
yeah, like boosted mentioned...when I was running my titans, but tire size showed more gap since the overall diameter was less. With the factory wheels, it looks more tucked in (but in my pic above, hard to see that at that angle)
 

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I need a step by step to remove front suspension. I tried searching but couldn't find it. Thanks in advance
 

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Mainly because most of the time, people are going with a 265/35/18 which is about 1/2" smaller in diameter than the 245/30/20 so that creates about a 1/4" more gap than what it normally would have.
That along with the reduction in wheel size which creates a more darker area above the wheel and the wheels being less sunk makes it more pronounced than the 20s.
That is exactly why!
Run 255/40/18 instead and keep the superior performing and riding linear OEM springs. Stock height 4 life.

Honda Civic 10th gen FK8 Master Spring Thread! 4E016497-5226-4EEA-989B-D80E587A149F
 


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I was torn between the Spoon springs, and the Swifts. I ended up picking up Swifts for like 300 shipped from AMR Engineering, and then I found out via google that they had some camber plates so ended up ordering a pair of those to go with my Swift springs. I don't have any noise issues with the Swifts, and I'm happy with them so far. I need a little bit more camber to take advantage of the drop, and get my tire temps back square.
 

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For those that get spoon. I bought two sets of 130mm Tein spring silencers that did the trick to keep from hearing noise on big bumps.

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Thanks for all the updates.

Was going to go Eibach but not now, spoon and these silencers as well.
 

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Anyone have issues with their brakes after having the suspension apart? I had my springs installed today and there’s now something very wrong with the car. When I first drove off and hit the brakes for the first time I had basically no pressure on the pedal. A quick release and repress and things felt pretty normal so I chalked it up to getting everything flowing again after having it apart. The rest of the drive home it felt mostly normal, just noted I’d mention it to them in the morning when I came back for an alignment (they like to have the car sit for a night before aligning). Once I got to my neighborhood though I started to get some weird noises in the front and then a host of warning lights came on. With the car in what I assume is limp mode I coasted to my house.

They’re going to have the car towed back over in the morning (they were going to tonight but they didn’t bring anything to get a lowered car on the truck). It feels like something is loose in the drivers front but that wouldn’t explain the lack of brake pressure though...luckily they’re owning up to fixing it so far but good lord this is exactly why I paid someone else to install!

On a positive note the Spoon springs feel great and I didn’t rub on the drive home.
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