Hey all, i'm new. I've been in the honda game for 2 years now and just never really bothered to sign up here cause i was a member at other places (but i couldn't resist the classifieds here!)

Anyway my rear right side sits about 3/4" lower than my rear left. I noticed it a little before i lowered my car on tein s-tech's and kyb agx's; and i think the drop accented the problem. And to make sure it wasn't the new hardware, i swapped the rear strut assemblies. So what could it be, bent control arm possibly? Anyone ever experience anything like this?

 

come on guys, no ideas?

 

Lots of people report problems with un-even lowering when using lowering springs. Its usually due to the car not having its weight evenly distributed from the factory at all 4 corners, so of course the car will not lower the same amount on equal-rate springs.
Get an alignment, and see if you can get your toe zero'd out. If they can't do it at one corner, something is probably bent.

 

Yeah i alligned it myself and inspected everything (i'm and auto tech student). Which leads me to believe something is bent. It's just frustrating. Guess the only thing i can do now is swap the LCA's and hope for the best?

 

What are the alignment specs? That may give you an idea of where the problem is. What exactly is out of spec?
The LCA's aren't the only thing affecting your suspension geometry, so they aren't the only culprit. Switching them out might or might not help, but of course if you do so and it doesn't solve the problem, thats one possibility down.
Its very possible that your uneven height issue is totally indepedent of your inability to get the car aligned correctly.

 

Here's my alignment specs. The only one out of spec is the rear camber but it's obvious what caused that. Plus i'm pretty sure i could just shim it back into spec.

front left: front right:
-0.6 Camber -0.9
2.1 Caster 2.1
0.02 Toe -0.01
11.6 SAI 11.7
10.9 included angle 10.7

front cross
camber 0.3
caster 0
SAI -0.1
total toe 0.02


Rear left: Rear right:
-1.7 Camber -2.0
0.12 toe 0.15

Rear cross
total toe 0.27
thrust angle -0.01
axle offset 0 in

 

everything looks fine to me. actually, id put more negative camber up in the front.


its pretty typical ride heights are uneven. its not a cause for alarm.

 

Yeah i'm not worried terribly, but it kinda looks shitty, you can see it leaning to the left a little if you look at it straight on from the rear and from the side it looks like the car is trying to accelerate haha.

 

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yeah but it just looks like ****.

 

i think its a common issue with dropped springs, but 3/4'' isn't. did you double check to see if everything was put back correctly and torque'd down?

 

yeah i've been thoguh it tons of times, swapped the rear assemblies, disassembled. Everything. Had it on a lift, alligned,everything. But it leaned to the left before the drop; the drop seems to have accented the problem more.