so my car is in the shop getting the cross weights set and an alignment done. anyone want to guess what little thing has been costing me $75 an hour since about 2 o'clock today??

nate

 

Okay, I'll guess $75/hour. Did I win?

 

Skunk 2 upper A-arm camber adjustment?

 

I paid right around 200 flat. Including aligment ( 4 wheel) and cornerweighting.

 

ohhh, guess the thing. Gotcha.

 

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My Skunk/2 alignment cost me $80 at Gran Trusimo in GA.

 

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Taking off the trunk and putting a hatch on the back?

 

todd's the winner!

200k+ miles and the accompanying rust seems to have welded the rear toe adjusters.

0wn3d by new england winters again

nate-hoping he'll have money left to pay for topeka

 

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200k+ miles and the accompanying rust seems to have welded the rear toe adjusters.

0wn3d by new england winters again

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don't feel bad nate. my old coupe just barely had over 100k miles on it and the bolts for the toe adjusters were seized also, on both sides of course. They had to cut the compensator (toe adjusting) arms off with a torch, cut thru the thin sheet metal to get back there to pull the bolt out. It was a mess. So, I got new compensator arms (the cheapest part of the deal, like $30 a side). Make sure they use at least grade 9 bolts.

where did you take it to get weighed and aligned?

edit: I made sure I gooped up everything back there with a ton of anti-seize.

steve

 

Small Fortune Racing is doing the corner weight, swaybar preload, and alignment. we're also installing some pretty trick parts in the rear suspension.

nate

 

What kind of "Trick Parts" do you have? I'm looking for a traction control system for a honda.

 

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Did Jeff (I think that's the alignment guy's name at GT) say anything good or bad about using these things (adjustable upper A-arms, right?) on your car. For some reason, he was very reluctant (not wanting to increase tire wear) to even add any front toe out for me when he found out I use the car for daily driving.

 

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Didn't you know that all Hondas come standard with a traction control system??

It's the button marked "A/C", right there on the dashboard.

 

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Didn't you know that all Hondas come standard with a traction control system??

It's the button marked "A/C", right there on the dashboard.

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Right on brother! I used to have this highly advanced and cool (literally) driver aid. But it has since been removed.

Anthony "Mario" Crea

 

Honestly, I 'm looking to get a Motec Traction control system or something similar. I was curious to see what he has.

 

$75 for my corner weighing and alignment That's $75 one set price, not per hour

 

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add $600 to that and that's what i just dropped for mine. of course, that includes some custom trickery in the rear suspension and working with those damn buggered up toe links but what can you do?

the front swaybar needed 3/8" of spacers to remove all it's preload, and there was 125lbs jacked across the chassis. the drive home revealed the car now turns the same if i go left or right. go figure. the alignment isn't quite what i wanted, but i can tweak from the baseline i now have. i also finally have room for my rear tires.

nate