Anybody know a place to pickup some good remanufactured axels for a D16 Civic? The cheapest I can get new Honda ones is like $170 or so, just wanted to know what the best alternative is. Money is tight these days, and I've gotta get new rotors/pads, change the timing belt and do my axels, so I'm trying to find the most cost effective way to take care of this, thanks

 

did u try those aftermarket vitek axles???

 

I'm replacing mine too, I was told that Autozone has them for under $100 in most cases.

 

Well I found a place on the internet, driveshaftshop.net, they have a Honda/Acura stage 1, 25% stronger than OEM for $150! Plus if you've got some old B-axles, they give you like $75 exchange or something like that. I mailed them to make sure they've got axels for SOHC's and I'm gonna go with those. he cheapest I could get from Honda was $193 per axel, so I'm saving almost $100 plus getting slightly stronger axels, can't go wrong there

 

just buy them from napa or checker/kragen/schucks...they're like 69.99 each side

 

I wouldn't suggest this route. If you get ones that don't wobble under load, or snap during U turns, the power that most of you make are more than enough to snap them like twigs.

 

How much power are you talking about that you need to be concerned before breaking cheaper axles?

 

I've dealt with cheaper axels in my 93 GS-R, I've also broke about 3 sets in a span of one yea, after my OEM's lasted me about 130k miles. Needless to say, I'm not going with cheap replcements, I'm going OEM or better, and if a slightly better replacment is available for less, it makes sense.

 

i used to snap axles left and right when my car was NA so i saved up and got http://www.thedriveshaftshop.com stage 2 axles (still broke them but not as much) but then again back then i was stupid running stock with slicks and launching the pig at about 7000-7500 rpms but now i am more conservative at the track and....well i am not going to say anything b\c theres an import event november 4th and i dont want to jinx mysel

 

try this instead. Link is not correct.

http://www.driveshaftshop.com

 

ooops thanks for the correction