TL-Rocket

Hi Everyone,

I've got an '04 TL 6MT. I've installed an ASPEC suspension package from ACURA, but I'm not impressed.

I'm looking for something with a little more road feel, not necessarily harsh.
I live in New England so the most that I want to drop the car is .5" to 1.0".

I used to have a '90 Accord with Koni sport shocks and Eibach springs; this setup was perfect: Not too harsh, with great road feel.

Any suggestions?
TL-Rocket

msala524

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In order to feel any difference you would need to drop more than 1". Get a coilover kit and drop it at least about 1.5", the closer to the ground the less body roll and more control you will have.

Or if not convinced do the same setup you used to have on your tl.

Bearcat94

Only thing that will drop the car 1" or less is Eibach Pro-Kit with Koni Shocks. Koni's have adjustable dampening and you can set the spring perch at "Stock" height.

Koni/Nuespeed SP3 have 5 height perches and come with Nuespeed race springs that you can re-sell. ~$600 price. Supposed to be valved a bit more aggressively as well, IIRC.

Regular Koni Yellows (3 height settings) and no included springs cost about the same.


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MobTownTL

iTrader: (1)

i read somewhere that stock suspensions perform better than aftermarket suspensions, is this true?

I hate cars

In real life on real streets, I would bet money that most lowered TLs won't handle as well as stock ones.

Most people want the car to "feel" like it corners well which means less body roll but they never actually take it to the limits to find out if it does or doesn't corner better.

I've done the ultra stiff suspension setups where it feels like it corners on rails only to take a corner hard, hit a bump, and have the car skip all over the place.

A-spec is as far as I would go on a daily driver unless you live in an area with very nice streets. These cars just don't have much suspension travel and more than an inch or so of lowering and you're going to be hitting bumpstops which is a bad thing in a corner.

It's no wonder that a member here, Michael Benz, took first place over an entire season of auto-x with only an a-spec suspension and rsb even though his class allowed any springs/shocks you wanted.

MobTownTL

iTrader: (1)

nice, how much does the aspec lower the car? and does it come stock on tl-s?

Silver Bullet

a-spec suspension lowers the car 1/2 inch. They advertise 1" but everyone has measured the difference and it's never gone 1".

I'm out researching on updating my a-spec suspension and so far I'm not finding a good reason to go aftermarket. I have ~115k miles on my a-spec and I can't tell they have soften some but for 115k miles on a set of shocks they are still in good shape.