Yea if it's not tuned for those cams.. they are pretty much worthless just sitting in there. Hell there was probably a decrease in performance by chaning the cams & not the tune.

 

if the car has been on jackstands since 06. you think we care about engine performance too?!

after i get the car put together and running well, i'm going to try and convince him to sell it.

 

why blow a bunch of money in suspension & brake performance, just to get rid of the car?

 

so you can have a better car

plus you can't go back when you start a project like this. i mean the suspension has been off for nearly 2 years. plus you need to have some of these issues fixed to help make the car sale easier.

 

Ehh, If you're serious about sellin' the car, you'll prolly get more money by selling all those parts. In any case, good luck on the project.

 

it'll go whole. we don't have time or patience to deal with parting it out.

50/50 if he'll sell.

 

So I finally got off my lazy ass and started doing this.
Actually I'm getting ready to do a big suspension rehaul on my own car and I can't do it with this civic suspension hanging over my head.

So I'm trying to get it out of my way.


I started with what I hate the most; trailing arm bushings.

I spent a good 2+ hours working on this crap.

I took off the caliper, took off the rotor, and started tearing out the rubber in the trailing arm bushing.

Pix:

Atleast I got to use fire!

The rubber on the metal sleeve


The center pin of the trailing arm bushings


After the fire, I whipped out a wire wheel and ground the crap off. I was covered in burnt rubber as well as my work bench and garage. Oh well.

End results


Ready for the polyurethane


I'll pop the poly bushing in tomorrow some time. Realign the pin, mount up the bare caliper loosely, and the trailing arm will be ready to go in. Next up one more trailing arm bushing.

More to come in the next week or two.
More pix found here: www.bumnah.com/cracka

 

yay, forward movement on this project! haha

 

Bumped

 

lol, start a thread and make no progress for 10 months... sounds familiar :rick: