Spoon Rigid Collars installed on FL5

• Reduction of annoying vibration and shaking that occurs when the engine is started. And the overall driving experience has changed, not stiffer but feels more rigid and solid going over bumps and obstacles. It just feels tighter than before. I bet this smooth overall feel reduces fatigue on long drives.
• A decrease in vibration so a reduction in cabin noise
• Better straight-running stability, docile rolling, and reduced corrective steering.
• Improved straight-line stability, compliant roll characteristics, and reduced amount of steering corrections in comfort mode (steering setting).

Gillie said:

I saw a CW FL5 on 190th going west a few days ago. I wonder if it was you haha. Looks good!

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Village911 said:

Hey guys! Today, I took my fl5 to Honda Guys in Torrance, CA to get rigid collars installed for both the front and rear.
A total of 24 collars were installed, a fairly simple install that took about an hour.

I took it to the street and residential to check the difference for about an hour, and these were the effects of this kit:

• Reduction of annoying vibration and shaking that occurs when the engine is started. And the overall driving experience has changed, not stiffer but feels more rigid and solid going over bumps and obstacles. It just feels tighter than before. I bet this smooth overall feel reduces fatigue on long drives.
• A decrease in vibration so a reduction in cabin noise
• Better straight-running stability, docile rolling, and reduced corrective steering.
• Improved straight-line stability, compliant roll characteristics, and reduced amount of steering corrections in comfort mode (steering setting).

I highly recommend this simple, yet underrated mod on your fl5. Kudos to リジカラ

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Village911 said:

Hey guys! Today, I took my fl5 to Honda Guys in Torrance, CA to get rigid collars installed for both the front and rear.
A total of 24 collars were installed, a fairly simple install that took about an hour.

I took it to the street and residential to check the difference for about an hour, and these were the effects of this kit:

• Reduction of annoying vibration and shaking that occurs when the engine is started. And the overall driving experience has changed, not stiffer but feels more rigid and solid going over bumps and obstacles. It just feels tighter than before. I bet this smooth overall feel reduces fatigue on long drives.
• A decrease in vibration so a reduction in cabin noise
• Better straight-running stability, docile rolling, and reduced corrective steering.
• Improved straight-line stability, compliant roll characteristics, and reduced amount of steering corrections in comfort mode (steering setting).

I highly recommend this simple, yet underrated mod on your fl5. Kudos to リジカラ

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Village911 said:

Hey guys! Today, I took my fl5 to Honda Guys in Torrance, CA to get rigid collars installed for both the front and rear.
A total of 24 collars were installed, a fairly simple install that took about an hour.

I took it to the street and residential to check the difference for about an hour, and these were the effects of this kit:

• Reduction of annoying vibration and shaking that occurs when the engine is started. And the overall driving experience has changed, not stiffer but feels more rigid and solid going over bumps and obstacles. It just feels tighter than before. I bet this smooth overall feel reduces fatigue on long drives.
• A decrease in vibration so a reduction in cabin noise
• Better straight-running stability, docile rolling, and reduced corrective steering.
• Improved straight-line stability, compliant roll characteristics, and reduced amount of steering corrections in comfort mode (steering setting).

I highly recommend this simple, yet underrated mod on your fl5. Kudos to リジカラ

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jayson415PR said:

Nice, where did you bought them?

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UFO CTR said:

yes, pleasse
can you please provide the part #
and was it the FL1's or FK8's you've installed?
Damn! I want it!

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jayson415PR said:

Nice, where did you bought them?

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Village911 said:

Hey guys! Today, I took my fl5 to Honda Guys in Torrance, CA to get rigid collars installed for both the front and rear.

A total of 24 collars were installed, a fairly simple install that took about an hour.

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chopsuey34 said:

Is this something I could install myself in my garage? How involved was the install? Did your shop have to do things like detach the subframe or remove suspension?

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LeoA86 said:

How much did you have to pay to get this installed? Did they have to do an alignment?

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Village911 said:

No alignment needed. Paid 2 hours of labor

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DagCTR said:

you should at least have them check your alignment

the cars subframe front and rear from factory won’t be perfectly straight due to these larger holes for screw clearance and to allow the robots more wiggle room when mating them together

these collars require the tech to loosen the subframe and when these are installed it aligns the chassis and subframes as they take out these tolerances. So when installing these in most cases your subframe actually shifted a little bit which would throw your alignment off

I’m not saying it always throws it off. Just saying the probability is high.

I had these on my fk8 and it shifted my subframe enough throwing my front alignment out of spec

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