We had an Autocross school last weekend (I am on the autox committee) and after the teaching, the committee and instructors got to do timed runs.

Over the winter, I did the following: JCW front bar and springs, Koni FSDs all around, H-Sport Comp rear bar (lowest setting).

OH MAN WHAT A DIFFERENCE! Our course designer drives a Civic and he is very quick. Last year, I always ran 5-8 seconds behind him on a 40-45 second course. On this go around, I was only 1.5 seconds off! So, I made up about 4 seconds!

The car rotates on demand now - I am sure that is the bar (even on the lowest setting!).

The course has some very rough pavement. For example, there is an area where the asphalt layers are peeling off and this makes for a few 1.5 inch (or however thick a new layer of asphalt is) high transitions about 3-6 feet apart. We had an uphill, off camber turn right were this asphalt mess was and I actually did not notice the roughness in the pavement. The FSDs are awesome in this respect.

Of course, the usual disclaimers: I know you are not supposed to run FSDs with *any* lowering springs and this combination is likely to make my car catch fire - I just know it works for me.

Bob

 

Lolz. I think you'll be just fine. We're installing more and more of the FSDs to good effect.

 

Wow! The Koni FSD is a huge improvement over stock and I did not realized that the OEM gave out at about 50K miles.

I don't track the car but just spirited driving around twisties... and may have to consider the rear sway bar.

Should I go with the hollow bar or solid bar! Any recommendation?

 

H Sport Comp. bar (hollow).

 

For fun driving on the twisties (not autocrossing or driver's ed), I would probably recommend one step down from the H-Sport Comp. This is a big bar. I was on a clover leaf after it had misted a little bit and I did not think I was over driving the car, but, the rear end came around on me a bit. Fortunately, the stability control eventually kicked in and saved my ***, but, it could have been ugly if I was going much faster.

Bob