Kevin's 93' Ls400 AYEEEE

[KEVIN.E]

Last I read up in this thread was when the accident happened... Good to see you've had courage all this time!

I've been debating myself to step up the spring rate on my car but I'm not sure yet. I love how comfortable I'm riding but the trade off is scraping too easily on bumps... Decisions decisions.

Can't wait to see more car pics anyway!

Dude, 22/20 rides like just a lowered car to me, its not jarring or back breaking stiff. I was skeptical at first but I'm wishing I went a little stiffer, but then again this is a huge car haha

[coconutt]

Last I read up in this thread was when the accident happened... Good to see you've had courage all this time!

I've been debating myself to step up the spring rate on my car but I'm not sure yet. I love how comfortable I'm riding but the trade off is scraping too easily on bumps... Decisions decisions.

Can't wait to see more car pics anyway!

[KEVIN.E]

The Ls has been sitting for 2 full years, rotting outside in the weather haha. In that time I sold the coils on it, let the wheels get oxidized, the fender rusted, and the paint peeled back on the few parts that had been spray painted, (grill, fender). I literally never touched it or even started. The car looked pretty dam shitty .I went through a few jobs in that time period, but nothing substantial. Last October I was lucky to get hired at FedEx Express as a driver with pretty good start pay. Eventually I got tired of walking past the Ls in shambles so I started accumulating parts slowly. This was about 6 months ago. And now I'm just trying to piece it back together. The first thing I needed was a new battery, as my redtop went to shit, and coilovers haha, because flares on struts with Tokico springs, with 8th gen Civic stocks is not tight. The timeline of events and what I did is out of order but yall get the idea.


Here's the new BC's with 22/20 Swifts. I was going to go with PBM's but they said it would take 3 months for them to be built and shipped, w/e haha. This is my second set of BC's haven't ridden anything else, but I do enjoy them. Was worried the 22/20 would be too stiff but I'm thinking I should have gotten 28/26. But the swifts in this spring rate are a huge improvement over my last set of BC's that were 12/10 I believe.



I also copped the Daizen poly bushing set for UCA and LCA, also the sway bushings. Very noticeable difference, I haven't installed the LCA bushings yet though


Daizen bushings vs worn out OEM









UCA's that I had previously replace with the Daizen bushings



The Daizen bushings are so much beefier



Couldn't wait and decided to put the rear coils on in the middle of the night



then finish the fronts







peep the gaping hole for UCA clearance haha



Accidentally went too far forward and off the front of the ramp and crushed my skirt. Surprisingly only broke some of the clips but the skirt itself didn't get damaged



I guess this isn't really depicting much, but I replaced the inner and outer tie rods and associated boots. And then got the car aligned

[heeter_33]

Wow this thing is absolutely gorgeous.

[SnazzyQ]

I lost this thread like a month ago and have been looking for it ever since

Thank the lawd jesus I found it again

Still love the car btw

[SkLeInMnEy]

Love it.

[aeok18109]

ive been saving for wheels and maybe flares as well. i really really really love this build. i come back to it to reread it at least twice a week. glad to see some activity on it.

[Lukey]

sexc

[KEVIN.E]

more updates soon.

[SnazzyQ]

Sweet LS man ive always loved the ufc10 ls's

So cool that you are in Washington too.

Anyways love the car, cant wait to see it finished, and Subbed

[aeok18109]

it lives??? O_O??

[keenan]

jeez man that sucks. i feel your pain even though ive never been through something like that. ive always made sure that i had insurance on all my cars mainly because of shit heads that do stuff like that. glad you decided to stick with the build man

[Japster]

Amazing!

[KEVIN.E]

yoooooooo, been a long ass time haha. Finally got around to buying some stuff, the ls has deteriorated quite a bit, but hopefully I can get around to fixing it.

new 225/35/18
Soundstream Reference 1000.1
Soundstream Reference 760.4
Knuconceptz Krystal 2 chan RCA
Knuconceptz Krystal 4 chan RCA
Knuconceptz 4g connects
Knuconceptz Colossus 4g OFC wire
JL C2 525 Component
JL C2 525 Coaxial
new LCD climate control
new inner/outer tie rods w/ boot
Daizen poly bushing kit
Daizen poly sway bushings
cheap HIDs haha, again
couple of LED bulbs
more Dynamat
satin black vinyl wrap that I probably won't use
OE Toyota oil fiters..
95 LS engine cover
other random sht

Been waiting on my new coils, should be here anyday now. Ordered BC's again but this time with Swift springs in 22/20. I'm pretty stoked. I haven't driven the car in about a year and a half. I miss it a lot, and want to keep going in the same direction. It should be back on the road and better than ever pretty shortly.

[Tosh_Daniel]

Last I saw he had the wheels up for sale, subbed for another local LS build incase he actually updates it,