Yeah the SP shocks are good shocks.
I went with a seet of Monroes which are too soft, so now I am installing Bilstein 5125s tomorrow and hope it goes well.
Yeah and my shocks were pretty tight at the bottom, the noised came from the top. With my noise, it was onyl audible to people outsside the car when I dorve by, and to me when the windows were down.
YOu can also disconnect the sway bar from the end links before you do the shock disconnect, and take a spin to check for noise before moving onto disconnecting the shocks.
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For what it counts, my noise sounded more like what a 1000watt system sounds like in the truck of a civic. Kind of like license plate noise and metal clinking or something.