will harder and lowered suspension springs make my car handle better?

Answer 1

It will handle better at the expense of ride quality.

Answer 2

Not necessarily. Replacing worn out suspension with the correct units will restore the car's handling to what the factory spec was, but it's not always the case that fitting stiffer springs and shocks will actually improve the handling. A lot depends on how much you alter the original settings and what kind of car it is, but it's really quite easy to make a car handle worse by messing with the spring rates and damper settings.
Remember, car companies spend literally millions developing a car's suspension settings to give an optimum balance of ride quality, bump absorption, pitch and yaw control etc, and by playing around with those settings, there's a good chance you'd mess it up!

Answer 3

I can't believe that people would say yes to this question when the answer is clearly not necessarily. There are many excellent drivers cars which do not have suspension which is rock like. Stiffening suspension will cause less roll in corners and more precision (possibly) in steering but handling is also about how it rides dips and bumps in the road and by simply fitting stiffer springs you could risk upsetting the whole balance of the car.

If you want to improve the handling you have to alter the package and that can mean springs/shocks/anti-roll bar tires etc, stiffer springs and lowering will just give you a poor ride which will undoubtedly become unsettled over an undulating, winding country road!

Answer 4

To a point. There is such a thing as too much of a good thing. An overly stiff or too far lowered suspension for example could result in less tire contact with the road and therefore decrease cornering capability. I have certainly seen more than a few cars that overdid it. Suspension tuning is all about finding that fine balance between spring and damper (shock or strut) rates, stabilizer bar stiffness, suspension travel, alignment and tire pressures.

Answer 5

You're right it'll make the car ride harder than he*l. Lowering springs all have very high spring rates per inch of spring travel. It's going to be next to impossible to re-allign the front end because the caster and toe will be changed. With out a doubt you will need aftermarket camber plates to try to get it alligned again.
You'll need two other things right off the bat. Your present struts will make the springs bounce and hop around. They can not handle the new fast up and down harmonics of the new springs. You'll need aftermarket tighter valving, KYB, Bilstein or Tokico struts. While your'e at it don't forget the most important piece of all the upper strut tower bar. It ties the top of both strut towers together to stiffin the weak uni-body construction. Without this brace your car's going to twist like a presel.

If you want to make your car handle much better without going to such stiff springs check out an Eibach Anti Roll Kit.
It considts of a larger diameter front and rear anti-roll or sway bar kit which will flatten the car out going around corners. The car will not roll and push through cornering manuvers.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

I own an mgzr 160vvc.The suspension on this car does not exist
in standard form,but people want to lower it even more.

Harder and lowered suspension will make your car handle better
but the ride quality will be crap.

Answer 8

I have the D2 coilovers on my fit with a 36 way dampner and rebound adjustable system. It looks pretty sick, it's a really easy to adjust, i went to vegas recently and had a smooth ride there and the day i got back my man and i head to the canyons so we stiffened it up, it takes maybe 2 minutes max.... I had Eibach springs on my Ep3 but I didn't like them much, the ride was stiff and it was as low as the mother f*cker could go but I didn't like it. Just got some Falken Azenis :D. My next move is to get a turbo.

Answer 9

Yes. Lowering and stiffening your suspension will make it handle much better. Understand that the ride will be bumpier for you, though. Also make sure that the person who does it re-aligns all four wheels to keep the geometry correct.

Answer 10

If you do it correctly with the correct replacement parts, then there will be an improvement in the handling. However if you fit cheap springs without replacing the shocks with shorter shock then the handling will be crap.
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