Thanks Matt for taking good care of me. Car is delivered ontime, good communication throughout. Plenty of S2000 experience (big big +).

Installed Items:

Coilovers
Brake lines
Exhaust
Swap Tires to new wheels + Alignment
----Complimentary-----
Hood struts
Strut bar


Installation Notes:

Ark performance STP coilovers: Helper springs issue. Matt contacted Ark on my behalf for solution. (Installed without helper springs)

Wheels (245 on 8.5 +40): As per tires/wheels guide, this will rub abit. On Ark suspension (sits very low even at max height), alot. No fault of Speedtech. Refered me to next door for fender rolling. Rolled nicely, no paint crack, still rubbing a tiny bit on huge bumps (found out during my trip to Banff)

Missing 2 trunk clips when I got home the first day. Matt took no time, ordering two clips from Honda right away. Got my clips 2 days later. (Thanks Matt)

Perfect alignment on exhaust installation. You see alot of pics on this forum where the tips of the Q300 are not aligned, no such issue here. they are perfectly symmetrical at all angles.

I am very happy with the service and will definitely bring my car back if I need anything.

Before


After






Product Review:

Invidia Q300 Exhaust
After driven two 6 hour drive between Banff and Edmonton in 4 days, the thing I appreciate the most is the new quieter exhaust. When I purchased the car, it came with Skunk2 exhaust (which is FS cheap, PM me), it is too loud for a daily driver even with the silencer on. Droning is quite bad esp in 6 gear at highway 110 speed. The new Q300 exhaust is a night and day difference. I can use my car stereo again. Exhaust is very well made, and well aligned with the rear bumper/exhaust cutouts.

Brake Lines
I don't feel any difference in brake feel for new brake lines. Esp the trouble I gone through (vendor shipped out the wrong lines and waited awhile before everything is sorted out), I would say this is not a good bang for the buck. There is no degrade in brake feel for ppl just want the sake of modding that.

Ark Performance STP Coilvers (9k/9k)
The love and hate. I will go with hate first. My apartment garage entrance is a steep downward slope. Going in is no issue. Coming out, load towards the rear, the car scraps. I've since bought a few garden rubber mats. Getting the car out without scrapping means I need to place them at the near edge to lift the rear wheels alittle coming out. Put it simple and clear, it's a f**king lot of work to get the car out. Will probably try backing out of the garage sometime this week. Now the love. At 5 clicks from the softest setting, the car is a ted more firm than stock, yet riding much nicer. There is no roll at corners, and easily handled the 6 hour drive no issue). At the softest setting, all small bumps are filtered out. It's no Lexus, but it's just smooth with abit of corner roll and brake dive. Overall, a pretty good set of coilovers for the money. For my preference, I would hope the max height can be 0.5" more than it is right now.

*UPDATE* Arkperformance will send me 2 longer base from the front to try out, very good support from Ark *UPDATE*

Wheels Tires Alignment
The wheels (Gram Lights 57 Optimise) are about 2~3lbs a corner lighter. With the new suspension, it is very hard to judge the difference it made. I didn't know the alignment setting (will probably find out from Matt sometime), but I can tell you the car track straight and is very neutral at corners.

Strut bar
Annoying as hell. Why? The intake pipe is rubbing against the strut bar creating this small, but annoying rattle. Matt suggested the foam tape solution, I have yet to try that out. Strongly not recommended for daily drivers and not care about under the hood looks.

Hood Struts
Great addon. You can definitely live without, but definitely great with.

Hope you guys enjoyed my type-up, pls forgive my typo's and gramas.

 

I have the same brake lines, you won't notice a difference unless you're braking hard and often. If you track your car, the brake lines are a good mod.