Tein Coilover questions

[peehs]

My question today involves the planned suspension upgrades to a 1991 Accord Wagon LX that I purchased last weekend. I have been looking at the Tein coilovers but am concerned that it will be too stiff of a ride for daily driving. I like performance and will be running this down to the SCCA events, but will not get away with a bumpy ride from my kids.

Does anyone know the springrate of the stock suspension? The Tein kit appears to have a 336 lbs/in front and 280 lbs/in rear (I believe). What is the springrate on the Accord as is? Will there be a problem with the 200 extra pounds in the rear of the wagon (i.e. will that cause too much problem for the kit?)?

I have used spring/shock combos before as well as using coilovers before and my experience from the past is that it isn't worth trying to save the few hundred dollars as the ride quality from the coilovers is so greatly improved (when set to a soft ride setting) that it pays for itself. Any input on this particular application?

Any advice you can give would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
-c

[JaK FRoSTWhiTE]

I can see what you're saying.
But you know what?!
that doesnt matter.
Its either/or...
You either want a confortable ride for your kids
or you want a stiff ride for competition.

Theres no middle to it.

You have to lose a little bit of one to gain the other.







That is unless you get the Tein Dampners with EDFC...
With the Electronic Controll, where you can control the ride stiffness.
But thats crazy money right there!!1!

[c mak]

I have got the tein basics and all I can say is that it is not a harsh ride at all and I can still take the turns like a champ! Everyone that rides in my car falls in love with the tein coilovers and a nice option is that you can even change out the springrates if you want to for a stiffer or softer ride.

[Big Body LX]

I have 2 kids (one is 3yrs old and the other is 1yr old)... and neither of them have EVER complained about stiff suspension. On my Camry I ran Tein S.Tech springs and it was VERY soft... so obviously I never got complaints from ANYONE, much less my kids... but in our '91 Accord we ran HP Racing coilover sleeves on blown struts, and once again, my kids never complained (and the 3yr old knows how to complain don't get me wrong).

Moral of the story, if your kids are regular kids, they usually grow up to be like their parents.. before my daughter could put together an understandable sentence she knew how to make car noises like you were shifting... and she knew what I was doing when I shifted my Altima because she'd make the hand gesture... the stiff suspension might just grow on them.

I have Neuspeed Race/KYB AGX and they never do anything about it either... kids just don't care.

So what I'm saying is get full coilovers like D2, Ksport, or Teins and you should be more than happy.