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First of all, great website for a great car, lots of different opinions and valuable info.
Second, I don't have an ITR, I bought a 99 Civic SiR instead; what I could afford at the time but I'm applying as much of the ITR "philosophy" to it. No, it'll never be a Type R but life goes on.

To the question; I've searched and found no one using KYB AGX's on their ITR. I have stock ITR springs on my car now and I like the ride/handling compromise for daily driving but the ITR shocks obviously would not fit so I picked up a set of KYB's and trying to adjust the damping to match the spring rates but without a "baseline" setup, I've set them at 3/4 in front and 5/8 in the rear.

Does anyone know roughly where I should be at in terms of damper settings? I know it's a matter of trial and error, as well as opinion and driving style but I seldom get to the track to really try out these settings. And I don't really want to push it in public roads just to find that ideal setting. Do i just keep turning it up until it's barely comfortable?

Thanks in advance and BTW it's my first post so go easy on the noob.

Outside of the track, for daily drive set it to whatever is comfortable to you. That's all you're gonna be looking for is comfort on the streets anyway. There's no "ideal comfort setting."

And how's you have a '99 Civic SiR? Did you import one from Japan or is it just some rice badging?

Thanks, that's what i figured, but i was wondering what the stock ITR damping would compare to as far as the KYB AGX settings.

Sweet rice badging! Actually it's a Canadian model, which were called SiR's instead of Si's. Identical except for badging and standard ABS. So technically it's an SiR, but it's no better than your Si. Crazy canucks!

lol, I completely forgot about the SiR badging on the Canuck Civic Si. Nice car my man

A tip for track and Auto-x is not to make your front shocks too stiff. This will hurt not help. I usually set my shocks in the front at 1/2 stiffness and then adjust the rears till I find the rottion I want.

Rear stiffness on the road is a bigger factor for comfort as well.

Trey