dt4life

Lately I've seen alot of places selling ITR LCA's. They all say there is a hole already for the sway bar but when I've been reading installs of the ITR rear sway bar, no one ever mentioned the LCA. I'm confused on why someone would want to change out ther LCA's for ITR LCAs. Please help clearify this for me.

I'm going to order my 23mm rear sway from ICBMotorsport shortly, do I need the ITR LCA's too?

IntegraBoy04

If you get ITR lcas, you have to get completely different suspension. There is a hole for a sway bar on your stock lcas.

thaiphob

no you dont need itr lcas . you need to get atleast a BSQ or beaks kit so your sub-frame doesnt tear out.

dt4life

Yeah ICB sells a new 23 mm bar will bushings and D brackets with beaks kit. I'm getting that but I continued searching and it all makes sense. What do 'lighter' lca's do for you?

IntegraBoy04

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Nothing noticeable.

dt4life

ok....one more question. I have a 94 GSR. I'm looking to buy TEIN Flex after I purchase the 23mm sway. Is there any advantage of purchasing ITR Flex and ITR LCAs over GSR Flex and obviously stick with the stock LCAs on my GSR

IntegraBoy04

Less money you have to spend if you stick with gsr. The R lcas are supposedly stronger, and a better design.

mingbling96

ITR LCA differs because of the difference in mounting positions of the rear sway bar.. ITR and normal LS/RS/GSR rear sway bar. the LS rear sway bars are small, and are mounted off of a bracket, which mounts on the subframe. Because of this bracket, it mounts the rear sway bar about 0.5-1"" away from the rear sway bar and with this design, it perfectly lines up to an LS rear LCA with the endlink perpendicular to the LCA.
Now, with a ITR rear sway bar, the stock design has it such that it is mounted directly to the subframe. The sway bar is the same design as an LS one, with the exception of it being thicker. Now wouldnt it make sense that with the same design but mounted on the subframe, the endlinks will now be slightly in front of the rear LCA which will cause an angle from the endlink to the LCA. Honda fixed this by redesigning the LCA so that with an ITR rear sway bar mounted to the subframe, that the endlink will still be perpendicular to the LCA. They had 2 choices, to redesign the LCA or redesign the rear sway bar, and i guess they chose option 1.
One way to fix this is to add washers until the angle is perpendicular to the LCA, otherwise your rear suspension will become considerably stiffer due to loading the rear sway bar when it is not designed to.. ex.. going straight.

We talked more about this in this

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=601165

Stripped Si

In regard to the link you posted, as long as you have ITR LCA's the ITR sway shouldn't give you any problems? Washers are only needed for ls or gsr lca's?

jojoforhelp

Dont know if you know this but the ITR's LCA is different than the GS/LS/GSR. The shock mounts totaly differently.
In other words, you cant use ITR rear shocks on a GSR LCA. Or vise versa. The ITR rear LCA is stonger.

mingbling96

yea.. and that too.. but the main purpose is so that the sway bar can be mounted correctly. if using ls/gs rear LCA with ITR sway bar, get a beaks kit or BSQ and add washers to the endlinks with a longer bolt and you'll be fine. It's what im doing