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I'm starting to work on the suspension on my car now and I noticed LCA are available for 89-91 CRXs....what's the difference on my 88 SI? what have you guys used? I'd like to see some pics if you guys have any...

 

you can use the 89's as long as you get shocks to match. the shocks on ours (i have an 88) is round with a hole through where as the other three years have a fork style shock. take a look and you will see what I mean.

 

oh....my shocks uses forks on the bottom....hmm maybe the previous owner changed it?

 

http://www.projectzum.com/inde...id=13

 

Blox racing on a 91 si crx
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10774352@N02/2623155519/

 

cool what if i swap to integra rear disc brakes? they'll still work with the LCAs i buy?

 

Yup

 

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Oh man...are you sure you want to do that? You'll be adding like 60 lbs to you car, won't improve your braking at all, spend money on parts, plus there's the labour side of things.

Your choice.

BTW, the 88 lca arms are the lightest ones out there, there's really no reason to change them.

 

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Oh man...are you sure you want to do that? You'll be adding like 60 lbs to you car, won't improve your braking at all, spend money on parts, plus there's the labour side of things.

Your choice.

BTW, the 88 lca arms are the lightest ones out there, there's really no reason to change them.</TD></TR></TABLE>

I'm not too focused on the weight issue. Labor...i love workin on my car so its cool with me... I just wanna get rid of my drum brakes and have a decent suspension.

 

I'm running the Skunk2 LCA on my 88 sedan (switched over to fork style shocks of course)......install was a breeze and couldnt be happier

 

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I just wanna get rid of my drum brakes and have a decent suspension. </TD></TR></TABLE>

A decent suspension is cool. I wouldn't waste your time with swapping out your drum brakes for disks though, its a waste. You gain 100 lbs of weight, spend money on the conversion and park cables, plus labour, plus have the same or worse braking than stock. I speak from experience, and regret doing mine.

The "only' cool thing about the rear disk set up is that it looks good.

 

88 crx's use the same lca's as type r integras, just a fyi

 

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A decent suspension is cool. I wouldn't waste your time with swapping out your drum brakes for disks though, its a waste. You gain 100 lbs of weight, spend money on the conversion and park cables, plus labour, plus have the same or worse braking than stock. I speak from experience, and regret doing mine.

The "only' cool thing about the rear disk set up is that it looks good.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Not to call but could you show me / link a thread where it shows 100 lb difference in the trailing arms w/ brakes?

That sounds like a tremendous amount of weight for arms, rotors, calipers and pads. In fact i'd be suprised if both trailing arms and full brake assemblies by themselves weigh much over 100 lbs. And the cable can't weigh much more then stock drum one, its just a different activation method of the action parking brake.

And if you LOST braking performance, then i would say something was askew with your set up, not the general idea.

 

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Not to call but could you show me / link a thread where it shows 100 lb difference in the trailing arms w/ brakes?


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I would like to see this as well. I do beleive they are heavier but not by 100 lbs.

 

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I would like to see this as well. I do beleive they are heavier but not by 100 lbs. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Well guys....i'll tell you what. I did my swap about 6 years ago on a 1989 crx Si which i still have today. I purchased a rear disk brake setup from a 1991 Integra and brought it over to the shop to have it installed.

When we removed the original drum, LCA and trailing arm setup off my car and compared weight between the two, i was amazed it was so much heavier for the disk setup from the Integra....i think around 60 lbs or so. I did fiinish the install since were already mostly through it, plus i had bouth new ebrake cables.

Now as far as performance....this has been covered in many previous threads with input from a number of other members from this forum stating in performance was gained from this mod. In fact, the crx itselft back in 1990 brand new when release with its new rear disk brake system, actually stopped 3 ft longer from 60-0 than the previous 1989 model did,

The other thing to keep in mind is that the car in this thread is a 1988 model that comes with the very cool and lightweight stamped steel LCA which give a more pronounced handling in the rear end and weight less the the cast lca found in all 89-91 civic/crx and 90+ Integra's esxcept for the ITR. Its intereating to note that in Japan, all 88-91 crx's used the lighter design stamped steelrear lower control arms, and never switched like the US model car.

Although the overall swap might not be exactly 100 LBs more, it is up there. I don't know the weight difference between both styles of the lca in question, but it is notable.

 

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Well guys....i'll tell you what. I did my swap about 6 years ago on a 1989 crx Si which i still have today. I purchased a rear disk brake setup from a 1991 Integra and brought it over to the shop to have it installed.

When we removed the original drum, LCA and trailing arm setup off my car and compared weight between the two, i was amazed it was so much heavier for the disk setup from the Integra....i think around 60 lbs or so. I did fiinish the install since were already mostly through it, plus i had bouth new ebrake cables.

Now as far as performance....this has been covered in many previous threads with input from a number of other members from this forum stating in performance was gained from this mod. In fact, the crx itselft back in 1990 brand new when release with its new rear disk brake system, actually stopped 3 ft longer from 60-0 than the previous 1989 model did,

The other thing to keep in mind is that the car in this thread is a 1988 model that comes with the very cool and lightweight stamped steel LCA which give a more pronounced handling in the rear end and weight less the the cast lca found in all 89-91 civic/crx and 90+ Integra's esxcept for the ITR. Its intereating to note that in Japan, all 88-91 crx's used the lighter design stamped steelrear lower control arms, and never switched like the US model car.

Although the overall swap might not be exactly 100 LBs more, it is up there. I don't know the weight difference between both styles of the lca in question, but it is notable. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Could the longer braking in the 90 CRX be due to the added weight of the whole car over the 1989 model? Or could the driver have had to many cheeseburgers? I mean 3' isnt a whole lot but that 3' could keep you out of the *** of the car in front of you.

In theory wouldnt the disc brakes stop better than drums? I mean in the 60s cars came with all 4 drum brakes and they stopped like crap. It just seems to me that it would be easier to push against the disc than to push outward on the drum. I may be talking out of my *** here just trying to get the info out on the forum.

Also you dont have to change the LCA to do a rear disc swap. Personally Ive had a 88 CRX and a 88 Sedan and love my 88 Style rear LCAs.

Again Im not sitting here trying to put you down or anything just trying to get some info out there. As a matter of fact Im keeping my drums on my sedan.

 

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Could the longer braking in the 90 CRX be due to the added weight of the whole car over the 1989 model? Or could the driver have had to many cheeseburgers? I mean 3' isnt a whole lot but that 3' could keep you out of the *** of the car in front of you.

In theory wouldnt the disc brakes stop better than drums?

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Ha ha....cheezeburgers No, actually, the added weight seen in the 90-91 CRX Si was due to the rear disk setup. Your right, 3' is not a huge difference, but my whole point is that no performance was is gained, and i ended up spending $300 after everything was said and done......i should have spend my hard earned dollars elsewhere.

 

well i already have CRX SIR brakes in the front and the correct proportioning valve for rear disc brakes...i just don't like drum brakes period....hate working on them and also i just wanna clean the look up on my suspension...I'll try and get pics up on here and show what i've done so far...