We Put $4000 Suspension on our $500 Civic

The Suspension Upgrade on a Civic: A Step-by-Step Guide

Always see them hanging out, something like that, on the backs of civics and I never really knew why that was, what the purpose of that was, and it turns out it's actually got two purposes. First off, this is our rear subframe and it's pretty flimsy or so they say, so this helps reinforce it strengthen it up, and you know it just gives it a little bit of extra bracing. But also does a second thing; these cars, especially the lower trim models, don't have sway bars okay, like at all, this car doesn't have a sway bar in the front or the rear.

But adding this in the rear gives us places to mount a sway bar so we can add one to the car and now you may have noticed we didn't do that in the front; we still have no sway bar in the front, but this is a front-wheel drive car which usually has some understeer. So adding a big sway bar to the rear with this kit will allow us to dial in a little bit more oversteer or close to it and make this car feel a lot better and now I know what it is, so do you?

So, we've got our brace and our sway bar hanging all tightened up, so now we can start throwing in these control arms and then the coils. See these are solid bushings; they are literally they're spherical, so if you give it a push, you'll get it to break free. Alright, one of the last things we're gonna do in the rear is replace These Arms which go right there with these and the difference is well not only are these stamped steel and these are tubular but these are adjustable and that'll give us adjustment over camber, which is pretty important for dialing in a good performance-oriented alignment.

Okay, and here we've got a rear strut brace from Cusco matches the one in the front; we're just going to tie together our two strut Towers to add a little bit of rigidity and of course, a little bit of STEEZ. Well, I was afraid that might be the case, we got to trim the interior a little bit. Not my best work, but it works, okay? Now this thing is ready to go to the alignment shop and then we'll take it back to the streets to let it rip.

Oh yeah, I forgot the muffler is off; you can't even tell. Rabbit, damn it sounds awesome, so we're back in the canyons to rip up and down the hill to see if installing all these expensive suspension parts on such a cheap car was actually worth it, let's go for a drive.

The first thing I noticed is how much less body roll there is; this thing stays way flatter through all the corners and feels great. I mean, it makes it feel much more predictable but it's way more fun now, I mean, it's like a go-kart; so everything we put on this car is a fairly mid-range park you know, we could have spent way more money and we could have spent less, but I think the mid-range is really where The Sweet Spot is that's where you get the most bang for your buck.

And I'm super happy with what we chose, but it's going to be a lot of fun to wrench on this thing and get into the Honda world a little bit. And I think we made a big first step, this thing feels so much better; I hope you guys had fun watching this video; it was fun making it, I look forward to doing a lot more with this car, and I hope you guys do too. Let me know in the comments what you want to see us do next; thanks for watching, don't forget to subscribe to the channel, don't forget to like the video, leave a comment, you can follow me on Instagram Zach Jobe at Zach Jobe, you can follow Donut at Donut Media; see you guys next time.