[sxysweed]

S2000 rear shocks are a bit shorter than OEM and are valved stiffer..

 

[suspendedhatch]

Extended top hats don't affect ride height. Get under there with a jack and take a look at how things work.

Extended top hats allow the strut piston to be in about the same position as if your car wasn't lowered. This is great for struts that were designed for stock ride height, and not very useful for struts that were designed for lowered cars (shorter pistons or a different design). In some cases, the top hats are open enough to allow the strut body to fit inside them, and with shorter bump stops, this will give you more travel before you bottom out.

The shorter forks will lower your car and give you more travel, the same effect as shortening the strut bodies and moving the spring mounts closer together.

That design and material is plenty strong for that part.

I wish mpc had a solution for the rear. On my EG I have Type R springs and struts. Handles amazing but the ride height is about stock or maybe a quarter inch lower. I've thought about getting some Koni yellows for the inch drop, but it would be a shame with these Type R struts being in such great condition.

 

[razordave]

S2000 rear shocks are a bit shorter than OEM and are valved stiffer..

sweed, I love you for this!

Why have I not seen this before? I'm gonna go get my hopes shot down right now from sticker shock.. :/

Where's the most cost effective place to obtain a set of rear s2000 struts?

 

[tommy]

So would these forks with EF coilovers up front and S2K coilovers in the rear be a good way to get a good drop while still maintaining a reasonable ride for the street? Or is that too simplistic of an answer?
I don't mind my Eibach Pro/Tokico adjustables setup, but it looks too high these days.

 

[sxysweed]

Why have I not seen this before? I'm gonna go get my hopes shot down right now from sticker shock.. :/

Where's the most cost effective place to obtain a set of rear s2000 struts?

The shocks are $220-300 EACH from the dealer, which is the only place I've managed to find them new. But you can easily find low-mileage sets on eBay and from junk yards for $120-ish. '

I've test fitted them on my old car w/drum brakes, plenty of clearance. On cars with rear disc brakes, you may or may not run into problems with the resivour hitting the caliper. Research it, someone else on HT has done it on an EK coupe. You do have to use EF/EG/EK top-hats though.

So would these forks with EF coilovers up front and S2K coilovers in the rear be a good way to get a good drop while still maintaining a reasonable ride for the street? Or is that too simplistic of an answer?
I don't mind my Eibach Pro/Tokico adjustables setup, but it looks too high these days.

IMO, stock suspension is too soft to go low or low-ish.
Quality coilovers (Fortune Auto, Koni/GC, KW, etc) should ride very well and still handle great.

 

[tommy]

IMO, stock suspension is too soft to go low or low-ish.
Quality coilovers (Fortune Auto, Koni/GC, KW, etc) should ride very well and still handle great.

Ok, I'll say it a different way, then - get Fortune Coilovers in a combination of EF fronts and S2K rears, get the lowering forks for the fronts; you would then have full travel on the springs as designed (and not require you to go full low on the coilovers), while starting off at a lower base level to the ground to start off with. Which is either a win-win or a really bad idea of combining things that shouldn't be, like Tiffany and Debbie Gibson in a SciFi channel movie.

 

[sxysweed]

Ah. I'd say doing all of that is overkill since many full-body coilovers are shorter than stock. Unless you are absolutely slammed, you usually don't run out of travel on the shock before the front upper control arm makes contact with the sheetmetal above it (and when slammed, the UCA hits anyways). I'm not really sure what it is that you hope to achieve, you do eventually have to compromise somewhere.

This pictures if of a Fortune Auto 500 rear shocks for an S2000 compared to a stock S2000 rear shock.
AFAIK, the height on the FA500's is adjustable independently of spring preload as well.

 

[rex-b16a]

I know this is a pretty old topic but I just saw these drop forks pop up on instagram and thought I'd research to see if anyone has used them yet. I remember looking for these back when I put my function form full body coilovers on my crx. I wanted to get a little more low up front after they were adjusted all the way down. Since I couldn't find any first hand experience with these I opted to adjust my preload to give me another 1/2" or so. No problems with the small preload adjustment.

 

[KevinEF7]

I tried to order them back in October but my order was cancelled by them with no reason

 

[vanrij]

I have an EG set for a different project. They are very stout (so much so that the weight loss is actually not that much.)

 

[kracksmith]

i too just bought these to try out. well see.

 

[tommy]

Interesting. Please post up your thoughts after you've had them on. That's a lot of extra material there over stock. I'm sure still lighter, though.

 

[kracksmith]

today since i have my crx apart i am testing fitting the MPC lower forks with the stock suspension so everybody can get a good look at it. to me so far it fits pretty good. if there is a particular shot you don't see and need to know let me know.

more test fitting will come when i get my other crx apart running ground control with konig struts.

 

[Titus21]

mpc Motorsport now has lowering rear control arms which allow for a 2" drop in the rear to go along with the forks! Though the description says eg/dc models I checked with them and was told they fit ef models as well.

 

[razordave]

That's a nice looking piece! Does anyone know if that would fix the 88 bumpsteer geometry issue?

 

[kracksmith]

what is a 88 bumpsteer geometry issue?

 

[jfrolang]

The 88's unique rear suspension geometry is in the mounting location of the compensator arm on the body. Swapping the LCA will do nothing to change that.

 

[James89DX]

How much are the rear arms?

 

[razordave]

I for some reason thought the problem was in the eyelet type rear strut/ stamped lca.

Thanks for clarifying that jfro.

 

[kcjohnnyboy]

the front forks will be good and the rear lcas look nice as well, i would have to get these if my coilovers do not lower my rex enough to my liking