I attended a test and tune this past weekend in peru, and having a number of drivers better than me drive and ride in my car, and looking at the wear on my Azenis, it was determined that I need more negative camber in the front. Seems the replacement upper control arms are a good way to get it.

Inlinefour has the Skunk2 pieces for $220 and King has theirs for $225. Any advise as to which I should get?

Thanks for your help,
Phil

 

From what I hear, they're both exactly the same. I'm pretty sure that most everybody will tel lyou the same thing. Just make sure you sand the paint/powdercoating off under the heads of the bolts so they dont slip and your alignment settings stay the same.

 

Put plenty of loctite on the bolts as well.

Jeff - who's skunk2 arm slipped WITH loctite on it.

 

King buys from skunk2. i have them for $200 shipped in stock.

http://g-speed.com/skunk/camber-kits

 

Didn't I just read pretty much this exact thread recently on here? Or was the the civic forum????? Search's are always

 

Buy from Frank...

 

Check out the A-Sports Adjustable upper arms at http://www.aj-racing.com/.

I know nothing about them, but have been looking for arms with this type of design. Unfortunately they are $620!

Anybody know of any other arms with adjustment similar to these?


[Modified by Shu, 1:21 PM 8/2/2002]

 

Anyone have good reliability data on adjustable upper control arms? If memory serves, aren't these things prone to cracking and/or breaking, which results in some pretty ugly suspension issues?

 

Actually, although King sells the Skunk arms, they also have their own. I just ordered replacement ball joints and they needed to know whether I had the Skunk version or their version. The ball joints they use are not interchangable, according to the person I talked to.

 

as far as i know king always sold skunk2 (now) and z.speed (still by group-a, but they re-enforced it i think) front A arms. the two sliding pieces are different. the old ones were al. the new ones are thinker steel pieces. if i'm not mistaken it's just regular balljoints which you should be able to have it replaced locally.

 

No problems with our Skunk arms. Just check the 4 hex bolts at the ball joints from time to time.

 

here as well.. (Aside from the alignment shop NOT TIGHTENING THEM )

But keep up on them.. slipping sucks.