BC Racing BR Series Coilovers for 90-97 Accord

BC Racing BR Series Coilovers - 1990-1997 Honda Accord (CB7/CD5)

Nobody expects the Accord. Walk any paddock or any meet and it's a sea of Civics and Integras, because that's what everybody builds. Then Eric Kutil goes and puts together one of the most serious CD5 Accord race cars anybody's seen, and suddenly people are looking at the family sedan in their driveway a little differently. Here's the thing though, that's not a fluke and it never was. Honda gave your Accord double wishbones at all four corners, the same geometry that makes a Civic or an Integra so good. The bones were always there. It just left the factory tuned for hauling groceries.

The Chassis Was Never The Problem

This is what people miss about a CB7 or CD5. When your Accord wallows through a corner and leans like it's trying to lie down, that's not the chassis being bad, that's the suspension doing exactly what Honda asked it to do in 1994, which was keep a family comfortable. Underneath that soft setup is genuinely good geometry. So you're not fighting the car when you build it, you're just finally letting it do what it's capable of. That's the whole reason a well-built Accord can embarrass people who paid a lot more for something with a better reputation.

Channel Your Inner Eric Kutil

Let's be real about what this is and isn't. A dedicated race car like Eric's is built around bespoke everything, and you're not going to shop your way to that from a product page, nobody is. But that's not the point. The point is the instinct: looking at an Accord and seeing a race car instead of an appliance, then actually dialing it in until it drives like you meant it to. That's available to you right now, and it starts with suspension, because no amount of power fixes a car that won't hold a line. These BC Racing BR coilovers are the most affordable honest entry into that, and the same principles that make a real race car work, controlled damping, matched rates, adjustable height, are exactly what's in this box.

Rates Sorted For A Big Honda

This kit runs 9 kg/mm front and 3.6 kg/mm rear, and that soft rear rate is worth noticing. It's not the number you'd put under a featherweight EF, and that's the point, BC tests each application and picks rates that suit the actual car instead of dumping the stiffest springs on the shelf into every kit and calling it performance. Your Accord is a bigger, heavier car than the Civics everyone races, and these rates respect that. You get real body control and a car that stops rolling onto its door handles, without it becoming miserable to drive to work on Monday.

Low Without Ruining It

Ride height adjusts independently of spring compression here, which is the detail that separates this from cutting springs or bolting on drop springs and hoping. You lower the car by moving the lower mount, not by crushing the spring, so the suspension keeps its travel and the damper keeps working. That's how an Accord ends up sitting right and still soaking up a bad road, instead of sitting right and beating you senseless. Add 30 clicks of compression and rebound on a single knob and you can tune it soft for the commute and firm it up when you want to lean on it.

RS Type Top Hats Keep It Livable

This set uses RS type top hats, which mount with rubber. That rubber isolates road noise and vibration instead of transmitting every bump straight into the chassis, which matters a lot on a car this size that you're probably actually driving places. You get the adjustability you came for without turning your Accord into something that's exhausting on a highway. Right call for a street car with ambitions.

Built To Be Kept

Mono-tube shocks with a linear piston and damping curve, so the damping stays predictable through the entire stroke instead of getting weird at the extremes. Backed by a 2-year warranty against manufacturer defect. And they're fully rebuildable, so when they eventually wear out you refresh them rather than replace them, which matters on a build you're planning to keep and keep improving. Want to go further? Custom spring rates, Swift springs, and custom valving matched to your rates are all on the table.

What You Get

• BC Racing BR Series coilovers for the 1990-1997 Honda Accord (CB7/CD5)
• RS type top hats with rubber mounting to cut noise and vibration
• 9 kg/mm front and 3.6 kg/mm rear spring rates
• 30 clicks of simultaneous compression and rebound adjustment
• Height adjustment independent of spring compression
• Mono-tube shock design with a linear piston and damping curve
• Custom spring rates, Swift springs, and custom valving available
• Fully rebuildable
• 2-year warranty against manufacturer defect

Fits These Cars

• 1990-1993 Honda Accord (CB7)
• 1994-1997 Honda Accord (CD5)

Note: Fits the CB7 and CD5 Accord chassis. Fully rebuildable and backed by a 2-year warranty against manufacturer defect. One coilover set per order.