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96romaCX CIVIC hatchback BUILD THREAD
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Thank you very much fellas!
Hey child, do you think the +20 offset will affect fitment drastically, if I ran 205/50? Since yours are +25?
It won't be drastic but you will need to spend some time working on the rear to clear. Might have to trim the inner corner of the rear bumper as well as getting the quarter panels pretty flat. 205/50 is a bit more meaty than it seems.
Ah okay. My buddy is coming over to assist in the matter, he's got a yellow s2k with 17" bbs rs, he has done several locally and we are using a roller so I'm sure it will be done well. His car is like 2" off the ground kissing the rim.
I ordered my replica wheels yesterday and my check cleared with enough to order tires, so I got 205/50 s drives also, ordered today. Should be here next week, and my new lca's and endlinks arrive 2mrw so that's what I'll be doing! Pics when I'm done!
I ordered my replica wheels yesterday and my check cleared with enough to order tires, so I got 205/50 s drives also, ordered today. Should be here next week, and my new lca's and endlinks arrive 2mrw so that's what I'll be doing! Pics when I'm done!
Oh yeah it's deffinately on the top priorities, I won't be driving it untill I take to the ford dealer ship to have the experienced older gentleman ripe with knowledge do it again.
I've also made it a habit to rotate my wheels with every other oil change.
Yeah dood! I'm excited, I've never bought new wheels before lol, I just wanted a new look for the car, I'm gonna keep the outside oem but I've really wanted a little more agressive stance for a while. I just cruise in it normal and go to work and that's it.
Congrats on the promotion....... Can't wait to see the wheels.... And was it hard to do all the bushings I the front end?
Using the tapa ya tap tap..... Tap
Using the tapa ya tap tap..... Tap
In for pics!
Thank you sir!
No it was easy for me, but the hardest bushings are the front lca's and upper a-arms. In my situation I bought old used ex front lca's from the junk yard and restored them. So I had about 2 or 3 afternoons of bushing removal and prep&paint without worrying about have ing my car on the road. Everything else is very easy to install and it took my brother and I 4-5 hours from start to finish, with completed new front lower control arms and ex front sway bar ready to go in.
In for shiny function 7 parts!!!
now just playing the waiting on the FedEx man game.I hear ya. I hate waiting on ups and fedex
Yeah, I keep wondering if something happened, and its 50% chance of snow all day, so I wonder if that slows him down. I got to wait on my brother too, I just remembered he has the thin wall Stanley sockets in his car, hey are the easiest to get to the rear lca/subframe connection bolt with that asr brace on.
I got my lca's and endlinks! But the hardrace endlinks don't fit the lca's or the bar, the f7 lca's are too thick! They don't fit the integra bar because the bolts are too thick for the bar! I guess I'll have to figure out a way to make it work, I don't have the money for trial and error buying. Should have just researched a little more, but now we know!
Well after much sighting and figuring there is no way I can get everything to work. But thankfully my brother is going to buy my rear sway set up for his civic. So I'm not really at a loss.
We just finished installing my lca's and the sway bar in his car.
We just finished installing my lca's and the sway bar in his car.
I dunno, I guess I'm gonna say f**k it and roll without one for a bit.. I may pick up an oem em1 bar from majestic, seeing how I've read that the ex front and si rear complement each other very well.
Here's the rear sway finished install on my bro's car. I feel like he's gotten way more done the past couple weeks than me!
Here's the rear sway finished install on my bro's car. I feel like he's gotten way more done the past couple weeks than me!
Okay so I didn't get very far, and I e been calling all the auto parts stores looking for replacement toe compensator arms for my car to no avail. They keep saying its the trailing arm bushing, and I say no its the toe arm. "But that's what this is!" No THAT is the trailing arm."exactly!"
So I figured I'd have to wait and order some brand new ones from majestic honda. The current bushings are destroyed, completely gone and the bolts are seized to the sleeves, after a ton of PB blaster and a dead blow hammer I still couldn't get it to free up, it was pulling the mounting bracket out as I backed the bolt out. The other drivers side was just seized solid. So before I burn them out/off I'm gonna wait for the new ones to get here first so I have something to replace them with. That way I can still drive the car to move it.
So I figured I'd have to wait and order some brand new ones from majestic honda. The current bushings are destroyed, completely gone and the bolts are seized to the sleeves, after a ton of PB blaster and a dead blow hammer I still couldn't get it to free up, it was pulling the mounting bracket out as I backed the bolt out. The other drivers side was just seized solid. So before I burn them out/off I'm gonna wait for the new ones to get here first so I have something to replace them with. That way I can still drive the car to move it.
