save your money and do it right the first time, whether it be drop springs or coilovers. if you do springs your going to need struts, if your going to get springs and struts you might as well get coilover sleeves. i would advise koni yellows and ground control sleeves, if you buy a kit the konis will be dampened correctly for the spring rate you get, also if you go this route i would suggest some tophats.
i have had lowering springs on my civic and now i have coilovers, theres not much of a difference beside ride quality. sure you can adjust your ride height but every time you do that you need an alignment which cost $60-100. the thing i like about coilovers is they are one piece which seems that it would have less pieces to fail on you later on.
