I know if you want to do it right and actually gain performance in handling, you have to dish out $2000+ to get a nice set of coilovers. But if I were to just put springs on the car, would the handling be worse than the stock or about the same. Thanks in advance!

 

If you lower it,with springs only=worse

 

Anything less than 1" will perform worse than stock.

 

Like they said above it'll be worse. But, if you don't do any auto-x or track events you will probably never notice the difference. On the street you won't (or at least you shouldn't) get to 10/10ths where the difference will show up.