-- My '92 EG : The Frame-Scraping Journey --

[06tiburonofdoom]

as a wise man once said " The harder the work: the unlikeliness it will be duplicated!" hahaha

Woah... That's pretty much EXACTLY what I said when we were working on it. Hahaha You made me think twice and check to see if I typed that in the last post.

Holy s**t thats a load of work man!! Glad you've got the front sorted though! Surely the rear wont need as much work?

The car is absolutely stunning mate! Keep it up!

Thanks a lot!
Yeah, the rear should be easy. Only thing I'm worried about is keeping the wheel from hitting the spring without having to machine the inner edge of the wheel... We had to with the Diamonds, so we'll have to figure something out. We have a few ideas, though.
Might do a liiiitle more to the front, too, but we'll see how it looks once I get the Meisters back on.

[Minuki]

Awesome progress. Shame about the set backs, but good to see you kept going and got it sorted, nice one!

[daniel93]

Holy s**t thats a load of work man!! Glad you've got the front sorted though! Surely the rear wont need as much work?

The car is absolutely stunning mate! Keep it up!

[244Brick]

as a wise man once said " The harder the work: the unlikeliness it will be duplicated!" hahaha

[06tiburonofdoom]

Well, here in Oklahoma it is 2:10 a.m., and I just got home from a fierce 7-hour wheel fitting session. "Surely, it must be done.", you might say. Ohhh, how wrong you are... Now let me explain (I would post pictures, but I'm too tired).

We left off with the control arm bottoming out on the strut tower. So today, our first plan of action was changing the location of the arms. We cut some shims out of 1/4" steel in order to drop the control arms further away from the strut tower. What this did was give additional clearance, as well as a bit more camber due to the steeper angle it could obtain, now. It worked! But something was still holding it up...

After going back and forth with ideas, as well as pros and cons for each, we finally bit the bullet and cut quite a bit more out of the strut towers towards the struts. This ensured that we would no longer have to worry about that issue. Again, it worked! But STILL...something was in the way.

After searching for the issue for a good while, we finally saw it. The arm from the spindle to upper ball joint was hitting the entire spring because of the camber, AND hitting the bottom of the control arm because of the steep angle. So we started grinding. And grinding. And testing. And grinding. For about 3 hours this went on, until FINALLY...the height was looking about right. Which is where we left off for now.

So I will now call the front 'done', at least for now. So modifications so far:
-Enlarged adjustment slots on control arms for more camber
-Cut a hell of a lot more out of the strut towers
-Made shims to lower the mounting point of the control arms
-Cut/grinded the arm from spindle to ball joint for clearance
-Grinded the bottom edge of control arm to clear the aforementioned arm on spindle

A shit load of work to sit a little lower, basically. Luckily my dad is the shit and is ALL OVER helping me out with projects like this. For an idea of the camber, the Diamonds for the front are now sunken (10-15mm spacer would make them sit nice). So it has all definitely made a difference!
The rear is next...

[240benzo]

regional manager here you come! lol

[244Brick]

ok thanx man.. ill have to look up places that can do mine.

[06tiburonofdoom]

Where do you go to get your alignments? and what ride height do you set at before you do?

Well, there's 2 Hibdon Tires locations around here that have in-ground alignment racks, and luckily each one is by both of my residences! I've never gotten the Civic aligned, but I'll probably raise the car around 1/2" or 3/4" so they can do it (mainly to get rid of the wheel tuck in back). It also helps that I get a gnarly Bridgestone employee discount.

[tipnitty]

Car looks absolutely stunning man! Beautiful work!

[244Brick]

Haha, thanks guys! It's getting there. Fucking control arms... Why do they have to make them fat as hell?! SO gay. I'm just going to hack out where they're hitting, and if I need to box it in for structural integrity, then that's no problem. A little more of an ordeal than I had hoped, but oh well! That just makes it less likely to be duplicated. Haha Hopefully I'll get it aligned tomorrow or Friday! Then I just need to get the rears on.

Where do you go to get your alignments? and what ride height do you set at before you do?

[06tiburonofdoom]

Haha, thanks guys! It's getting there. Fucking control arms... Why do they have to make them fat as hell?! SO gay. I'm just going to hack out where they're hitting, and if I need to box it in for structural integrity, then that's no problem. A little more of an ordeal than I had hoped, but oh well! That just makes it less likely to be duplicated. Haha Hopefully I'll get it aligned tomorrow or Friday! Then I just need to get the rears on.

[Puntoevo]

No way in hell I'm gonna roll higher because of some *** control arms... Fuck that. So stay tuned!

^^Because of this, I think you are cool

[Mike G]

Nice

[244Brick]

Whats that blue car parked next to u??

His tiburon

[240benzo]

bye bye fenders?? cant wait to see them rearzzz