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I STILL haven't decided whether or not i'm going to have the focus lowered for the upcoming season. My question is if you guys think i'm good enough to where it'd be worth it or if I still have a lot to learn before I'd see much profit from them. I was thinking maybe it'd be a good idea because this season will be my first on half decent tires, and I also have the strut tower bars which made a huge improvement (not hard to improve on soggy bread ) So I figured it'd be better to re-learn how to drive the fofo once rather than twice.

Deeply looking into the H&R Sports as everyone seems to think they're gods gift to streetable springs.

I would work on your driving more first. Like the old saying goes you have to tighten the nut behind the wheel or nothing else is going to help.

Tony, I can't remember, but did you put in a different set of shocks/struts, or are you on the stock ones still? I'll assume here that you are on the stock shocks until you reply back.

While I agree with subarusti, I feel as though this may be a good addition, especially if you are going to be running on a good set of tires (like the star specs for example).

They're going to provide much more grip than the tires you were on last year. More grip = more body roll = more wear on the outter edges of the tires = you going through a set of tires quicker than necessary.

You'll get more out of your tires if you go with a set of spings, but if you are on the stock shocks, I'm not sure how long they'll last on a stiffer and lower set of springs.

I put pretty non-aggressive set of lowering springs (swift) on my stock shocks before I had the coilovers. It took a matter of less than 3/4ths of a year to blow out one of my shocks. Every car is different obviously, but this is a very common situation FYI for many cars. The stock shocks usually aren't valved properly to take on a set of stiffer and lower springs.

All in all, if you have the money I'd still say go for em.

If you are still on the stock shocks, be prepared to spend more money on aftermarket shocks/struts in the future.

If you have aftermarket shocks/struts right now, you're golden!

-Brent

^ I've also been considering camber bolts for exactly that reason.

but yes i am on stock shocks still... can't imagine their too beefy either as my stock springs are a frightening 110lbs/in

That is sig worthy!

Ya, they don't look to weak, they actually look stiffer (cause they're thicker) than a lot of stock springs but when I could compress it with my hands as much as I could I had to look it up...and still regret it simply for knowing it!

Has anyone here used camber bolts? Adjusting rear camber on my car is as simple as replacing (and adjusting) a bolt but on the front it looks likes a PITA to be doing every other Sunday.

With a proper allignment you wont want to adjust it every weekend. Find a happy medium between track and street driving. Personally I set the alignment on the Integra and never touched it. Made street driving more fun and made the car autox ok. Sure you could set up the car to do alot better in autox, but would have sucked on the street, and could have been better on the street than it was. However I didn't go through tires too bad and the car handled pretty well.

Alignment changes are not much fun to make, and more of a PITA than you may think. I know how much fun it is to do on your car. Without an alignment shop making the changes. I wouldnt suggest doing it yourself.