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Old 04-25-2009, 07:49 AM
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92 honda civic hatch, when i got it as a shell it was slammed and the dude told me it would need an alignment badly. I just put brand new skunk 2 sport shocks and skunk 2 lowering springs, no coilovers, and i also put brand new gold GT3s and brand new tires. I figured all i would need is an alignment, but for some reason my car leans on the passenger side, litterly the passanger side has the perfect drop, almost even with the fenders no touching or rubbing, but then on my drivers side i have like 1 1/2 inchs on the front and back drivers side. but like i said the passanger front and back are perfect? I havent gotten it alignd yet but i dout that has something to do with it....or does it? are my control arms shot? or camber kit? ill have pics up in a few min, but the shocks are not blown if thats what you guys think, cuz i already had them tested befor instal


passanger side, that i think it should look like on the drivers side



drivers side you can see if you look carfuly the hight diff




and now heres the rears jacked up drivers side first and passanger side second




and side shots, cant really tell because of the angle


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Old 04-25-2009, 08:35 AM
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Are the shocks adjustable?
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none adjustable
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then your just fat.



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something is bad in your suspension
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i know it has to do with a diff suspension conponent, yet i dont know which
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lol, im 165 tops, and im about to take pics in a few min, you can tell when im drivin, lookin at the back it leans to one side, and when you look at it from each side, one side is a perfect drop and then the other is like 2 inchs higher
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I know my 97 civic when dropped had a rear driver side sag but, that is natural for some honda's. That's why I bought ground control's to fix, still have to install them, also check all your suspension components, for example the rear trailling arm bushin's etc? Allso search to see if it has ever been in and accident?
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no accidents, and i just jacked up the rear end on the tow hook, and the passanger rear was off the ground in like 3 jacks, but the drivers rear took like damn near 10 jacks, while i was jacking the car up i was watching the lower control arms and the passanger rear stopped moving after 3 jacks, and the drivers kept moving while jacking the car up letting the wheel keep comin down, are they on to tight on the passanger side? or loose on the drivers side?
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That's normal for these cars. I believe it the bushings that are sagging and the whole drivers side suspension. Some guys go with coilovers so they adjust that out.

Go the drag racing forum and PM one of the shop owners/racers. They may know exactly what to do. Try Tony1 he's kind of the god of honda's right now.
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Tony's at Pinks right now so it may be Monday till he get's back to you.
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That's normal for these cars. I believe it the bushings that are sagging and the whole drivers side suspension. Some guys go with coilovers so they adjust that out.

Go the drag racing forum and PM one of the shop owners/racers. They may know exactly what to do. Try Tony1 he's kind of the god of honda's right now.
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which bushings? and how come just the drivers side front and rear and not the passanger side front and rear?
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which bushings? and how come just the drivers side front and rear and not the passanger side front and rear?
Oh, come on, you can't figure that out. Which side does the driver sit in ?

If the previous owner car pooled everyday the whole car would be sagging. Get it ?
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my teg was the samw way when i had coilovers
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i know which side, i asked which bushings? lower control arm bushings? upper control arm bushings? rear camber bushings?
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maybe the springs are different lengths for front and back.. maybe youhave the 2 front springs on one side.. and the 2 backs on one side..??
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lol, no there on the right way
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Originally Posted by B16aCRXSi
i know which side, i asked which bushings? lower control arm bushings? upper control arm bushings? rear camber bushings?
I'm not sure it's just something I learned to live with. When we went to Progress Suspension coilovers that fixed the problem.

http://www.progressauto.com/home the yellow hatch on their home page is our's.
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