OK SO...what is the shortage of adjustable camber kits for Preludes? Is it some quest I need to conquer? The only ones I've found allow for like 3 degrees of adjustment and are either adjustable upper control arm mounts or adjustable sliding upper ball joints. I've had sliding upper ball joints on a 94 CD5 and they would slam crazy hard into the top of the shock tower part of the body on a hard bump. Say I lower my car 2.5" or so, is 3 degrees of camber adjustment gonna be enough? I'm half temped to custom fabricate adjustable sliding ball joint mounts on my stock control arms. What have you guys done for your lowered Prelude?

 

Spc/eibach adjustable upper ball joints have worked ok for me, but I'm lowered like 1,5"

 

Yeah, I dont expect to be any lower than 2", probly closer to 1.5". So your lowered 1.5" with the sliding ball joints and have no problems? I had sliding ball joints on my CD5, I was lowered maybe 2" at most and the front upper ball joint would smash into the body at the upper shock tower HARD on a serious bumb. Could just be because I was using a shady brand oem replacement upper control arm though, might have had bad geometry idk. What model adjustable sliding ball joints did you buy? Ive seen like .5-1.5 degree and some that are 1.5-3 degree or sonething like that. Do you know how many degrees negative were you prior to your adjusting back to factory spec. @ a 1.5" drop?

thanks, Ian

 

yes - no problems
I have SPC/Eibach .5 - 1.5's. Notice that there is different ball joints for base and SH - I got accidently SH ones for my base so they needed some machining (couple mm difference)

I got the car with lowering springs so basic alignment was done before.
My old Accord had some problems with upper ball joints (it had lowering springs) so I decided to do things differently with Prelude

when installed adjustable ball joints (with lowering springs):

rear
-1.37 > -0.45
-2.03 > -0.40

front
-0.53 > -0.06
-1.53 > -0.07

lowering springs to coilovers (adjusted to about same height):

rear
-0.58 > -0.55
-0.35 > -0.43

front
-0.17 > -0.10
+0.17 > +0.10

 

Shouldn't need to mess with it much if you are using coilovers.

 

Well they might be more durable than stock

 

My car may be a little different as a 4th gen, but I have the adjustable mount control arms, and they have been great for me, perfect alignment at anywhere from -2 to -4.5 of drop. When at the lowest, I was still hitting the end of the control arm up front enough to bend the lip down a bit, but I couldn't take the car being that low anyways, looked cool but sucked to drive!