RudyW and I installed the Koni Yellow shocks on my car today. We installed the Koni shocks with my existing RM Racing Springs. The RM Racing springs give a 1.5" drop and the Koni's can give up to a 0.5" additional drop. I did a poor job getting some pics of the car from a distance to compare, but I'm posting what I did get pics of.

















My OEM shocks had 60K miles on them, 40K+ of those with the RM Racing springs on. The shocks had slowly deteriorated in performance and the Koni's were my choice of replacement. The handling improvement is very noticable, but I cannot compare them to OEM shocks in perfect condition. I have the Koni's all set on the firmest setting and it's just fine for driving on the street, IMHO.

We started the install at 9:00 AM and finished around 4:30 PM. Taking the wheels of, reading the poorly written instructions, figuring out how to get everything that is needed to be reused off the OEM shock, and installing the first shock took us 2-3 hours. Once we had worked through all of that it took only 30-45 minutes for each other shock. I recommend having two people for this install. We did not need any special tools (such as a spring compressor) to do the install. Even though the the first shock took forever, we did pretty good considering that Honda's book time is 1.5 hours per shock.

 

these shocks are one of the best(maybe they are the best) shocks/struts you can buy. i have these shocks on my 94 accord and when i attempted to install them for the first itme, i was disappointed by the lame ass instructions. good thing my friend(tech) figured it out and we had no problems. once you learn how to put one of them in, the others are a piece of cake.

 

so this means they are as easy as civic/integra springs to uninstall and then to load and install ? (civic and teg springs only need a "human" weight to compress and allow you to put the nut back on)

 

That's a great way to measure a drop. I used to measure from the top of the tire to the fender, but there are always little things like tread wear and camber that mess up the measurement.

 

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so this means they are as easy as civic/integra springs to uninstall and then to load and install ? (civic and teg springs only need a "human" weight to compress and allow you to put the nut back on)

 

cool write up Wes.

And yeup, these springs are very easy to remove. Thanks to Chong for showing me the easy way with these - right up against a curb. They'll only pop out 1-2" tops.

 

Thanks for the documentation, Wesmaster.

This is definitely something I plan on doing in the future. Other than For Bling, I really see no reason to spend $1600+ for Japanese coilovers that don't do you any better than going with a shock/spring combo like you did here.

Good move.

these shocks are one of the best(maybe they are the best) shocks/struts you can buy.
I'm not too sure that the Koni Yellows are any better than stock, but with that said, I'd go with Koni Yellows since they are one-way adjustable v. no-way adjustable.

And you, perhaps, have never heard of Ohlins, et al.

 

Yeah, if the Bilstein PSS9's don't pan out, I'll probably go this route. Unless I come into a lot of cash and then I'll go for the bling-bling Ohlins.

 

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so this means they are as easy as civic/integra springs to uninstall and then to load and install ? (civic and teg springs only need a "human" weight to compress and allow you to put the nut back on)

 

top of the wheel/rim to the fender maybe away to measure this is what I did to make adjustments with the JIC's. I guess regardless tread wear will play in to the equation.