Was looking at these in jegs and summit since I need tie rod ends on the car I'm building anyway, any opinions?

http://www.competitionengineer...21003

http://www.jegs.com/cgi-bin/nc...r=361



thanks,
Jared

 

nay.. not worth money i have then on my car and wish i never swapped to them.. they dont really save any weight. and what happens is it losen up and cause wheel to shake at high RPM i had to tighten the clevis many time to make sure i didnt run into problems.. ... bottom line is the stock ones works fine and there is no need to swap out to them

 

we have them, and I like them. Although we have not run with them yet. We went through many sets of factory with the last car and I hope these will fix that problem.

 

I have them on my street car and am very pleased with how responsive the make the steering.

As with any aftermarket upgrade you want to make sure things are staying torqued down as they should be.

 

Cool, 2/3 for yes. Thanks guys.

 

Jared, I almost forgot to add that you may lose some of your steering radius with these on.
I also belive that SPC (or similar company) makes outer tie rod ends with heim joints on them.


Modified by 1 at 7:47 PM 11/13/2003

 

Hmm, didn't know spc made anything, i'll have to check them out, i've had very good luck with everything else from spc.

 

Jared, my bad... it's SRR. Look at exospeed.com under racing suspension.

 

From the dead........

Jared said he is now using them and likes them very much. Is anyone else using them and if so, do you like them? Are they on your street car or race car? Thanks

Phil

 

we are running them on the turbo 4 civic coupe - no problems at all with them - any saved weight is good saved weight


james innes

 

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Thanks. Do they come w/ torque spec in the instructions?

Phil

 

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Thanks. Do they come w/ torque spec in the instructions?

Phil</TD></TR></TABLE>

yes

 

it should be noted that you can add spacers between the spindle and the tierod end, to help clearing up bump steer issues, when using these, something that you cant do with a factory tie rod end, unless ya want to go swaping ball joints.

 

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and they give you plenty of bolt to add spacers, it sticks out of the nylock at least 1/2"

 

Hey Guys, This tie rod kit it's for 92-95 Civic ONLY or I could used on 88-91 Crx/Civic?

 

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Ture

 

iv heard of so many of them loosening up... i figured something like this might work better as far as the whole loosening problem is concerned

 

Damn Tom thats some nice work man...is that for the hotrod car you are building? If so any more pics of it?
sorry to get offtopic...

 

Jared,

Could you post a few pics of yours installed? (if you have any). Thanks.

Phil

 

i have them on my crx drag car. havent run with them yet though. they donot fit correctly on a EF need to be shortened, which i guess is better that need to be lenghtened. if any one knows how much to shorten them on a EF please post it.

 

Damn , both SRR and Comp.Eng. stopped producing those kits...:-(

 

wow back from the dead...

I have a competition engineering kit... For a street car it really sucks to lose the steering radius. I had my dad sitting shotgun in my EG yesterday and I attempted a super easy U turn on a wide undivided highway and I had to do a three point turn instead... he was like "this thing's turning radius is worse than a 1 ton long box truck." He's basically right.

Kit was expensive too! The rod ends it comes with are the super shitty made in china ones. Definitely not Aurora, etc.

Oh well I plan on modifying the kit to fix the steering radius problem, upgrade to better rod ends, etc. Shouldn't be too difficult to improve the kit.

The stupid part of the kit is how it replaces part #1 in this diagram: http://www.hondaautomotivepart...R+BOX

From what I remember, the SRR kit kept that part OEM but for some reason Competition Engineering switched to the clevis bracket/rod end... Not only does that mess up your steering radius but it also makes the stock tie rod boots fit like garbage.

 

thats your inner tie rod

 

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its almost impossible to fix these problems. The poor steering radius and the fubar'd susp geometry from their off-axis radius rods are inherent to the faulty design. its not something you can fix, it really makes a lot more sense to start over with a new traction bar

 

geoff call me at the shop