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Old Dec 1, 2004 | 07:27 AM
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Default SRR LCAs and sways??

I've looked everywhere for answers and cannot find a thing. Tried the search and other forums so don't even tell me to try that.

Does anyone on here have the SRR lower control arms? I am trying to upgrade my suspension and I already have ground control coilovers on tokico blues. Problem is, I've found too many things I don't like. First of all, when I got the springs and shocks put on, the mechanic said he couldn't put the tokico rear shocks on because the bolts were seized in the rear lca and he couldnt get it off without torching the bushings. So he finished the job without putting on the rear shocks. I was supposed to get new control arms then and take em back to get the whole thing fixed, but never got around to it. Recently, I've also discovered that the guy put the sleeves for the springs on backwards; the ones in the back are supposed to be on the front and vice versa. This means that my front end is as far down as it can go and it is still not as low as the back, which has almost 2 inches of thread left to go down. I'm really pissed about that cuz I can't get my car even now.

So now I'm just trying to fix and sure up my entire suspension. I need good rear lower control arms and sway bar and tie bar. SRR makes nice looking lca's, along with a 19mm rear sway bar/tie bar/chassis reinforcement combo. Do the SRR rear lca's have holes for the sway bar? I wanna get this along with a rear upper strut bar, megan racing front H bar (I already have front upper strut bar) and polyurethane bushings for the rear lca. Thought I'd see what you guys thought before I get all this. I guess I'll be fixing the coilovers and installing the rear shocks while I'm at it. Any ideas or tips for install of all this crap? I predict the handling and structural stability of my car (92 EX-V sedan) to be much better after all this.
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Old Dec 1, 2004 | 10:47 AM
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Please help me out, I'm just askin for a lil info cuz I don't wanna get these LCA's and not be able to hook up even my stock sway bar.
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Old Dec 1, 2004 | 10:54 AM
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as far as your ride height being messed up, only way to fix that is swapping the front and rear springs. you should bring it back to this mechanic and have him do it for free, he messed up.



are these the LCAs you are looking at?
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Old Dec 1, 2004 | 11:38 AM
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Yeah, I know about the springs, problem is it was almost 2 years ago that he put em on so I don't even know if he'll remember me. Yeah, those are the LCAs I'm talkin about. I think the lil hole by the SRR logo is for sway bars but I just wanted to make sure. Also, are those good bushings that fit an EG strut because I've heard issues with other LCA's (megan racing) having crappy bushings that aren't wide enough to fit the strut mount. Don't know if I should install this stuff myself or not, I'm sure I could make do with some help from friends, but I don't wanna pay someone hundreds of dollars to do all this stuff.
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Old Dec 1, 2004 | 11:52 AM
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Originally Posted by civic EX-V
Yeah, I know about the springs, problem is it was almost 2 years ago that he put em on so I don't even know if he'll remember me. Yeah, those are the LCAs I'm talkin about. I think the lil hole by the SRR logo is for sway bars but I just wanted to make sure. Also, are those good bushings that fit an EG strut because I've heard issues with other LCA's (megan racing) having crappy bushings that aren't wide enough to fit the strut mount. Don't know if I should install this stuff myself or not, I'm sure I could make do with some help from friends, but I don't wanna pay someone hundreds of dollars to do all this stuff.
Those are the holes for mounting a rear sway bar.
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Old Dec 1, 2004 | 01:10 PM
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Originally Posted by civic EX-V
2 years ago that he put em on so I don't even know if he'll remember me.
2 years??? jesus christ, you car has had the appearance of slamming on the brakes 24/7 for 2 years? and just now you are realizing that there is something fishy about that??
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Old Dec 1, 2004 | 06:26 PM
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No man, its not that bad. The front and rear are level and it looks good, it's just that the spring perches in the front are screwed all the way to the bottom so the front can't go any lower, while the ones in the back still have about 2 inches of thread that they can go down. If you have sleep coilovers you'll understand cuz there is a cup in the rear that part of the sleeve is supposed to go down into, so ground control left part of the rear sleeves without threads to go down in that cup. My mechanic put those on the front and the front ones in the rear so now in the rear, part of the threads are in the cup and in the front, I have about 2 inches of sleeve without threads.

Anyway, does anyone have the SRR tiebar/sway bar combo?
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