Today I tried installing the Ground Controls on my 98 civic and had no luck.
I did get the skunk2 camber kit in within an hour, but after spending 4 hours on the drivers / front side with the GC's I gave up!

Below are pics of during the install and the problem I am having. I am starting to think that I was sent the wrong adapters. The shocks in the picture are Bilstein HD's and the GC's I ordered are suppose to be for the HD's. Take a look:

Let's get the first pic out the way. That is installed upside down? I'm 99.9999% it is. Just had to take a pic since I tried every possible way to install the GC's....



In the next picture I have the GC sleeve angled so you can see the adapter at the bottom. It's about 1/2" thick and will not slide pass the gold piece on the Bilstein's where the metal pipe stops.



Here is a top shot of that 1/2" thick ring I am talking about in the pic above:



Ok, in this next picture you can see just how the 1/2" adapter that is marked in green can only go that far down. But, I believe the adapter should slide down to where the blue arrow is on the Bilstein shock.

You can actually see in the instructions underneath the shock how the arrow is pointing to the shock all the way down to that little rest spot on the shock....



Below is a closer pic to show exactly how the GC was sitting. When some weight from the car was let onto the GC's that 1/2" piece popped right out and the spring was loose....



I did manage to get the skunk2 camber kit installed on both sides though:





This next pic is from the passengers side. I didn't even bother with the springs or shocks on this side, since I had all the problems on the drivers side...



Thanks for any input on this!!

 

With the GC's installed, does the driver side seem to sit too high? The installed pics look right to me, but I'm not sure, just trying to help with the info given.

 

I never got the drivers side installed. It was pretty much installed in that one pic above. But, I tried to tighten the nut that goes on top of the shock (you get to it from under the hood) and once to much pressure was on the spring, it came loose from that 1/2" thing that is insdie and then fell down on the shock. That 1/2" little ring just dat on top since it's larger than the shock itsself.

 

Is there any way you can blow up a pic of the instructions the shock is sitting on?

 

There you go:

 

Now for a stupid question, are the sleeves and the struts are all the same diameter front and back?

 

Um, did you order the proper sleeves for the Bilstein shocks? I would double check the part numbers against the box.

GC's are specific to the shocks they go on.


[Modified by B18C-EJ1, 5:20 PM 3/30/2002]

 

I'm not sure, but the GC's have #'s on them stating which ones are for the front and which are for the rear....

 

The part #'s on the GC's match the ones on the box. But, I do NOT know if the part #'s are the ones for the Bilsteins, Koni's or generic....

I may just have to wait and call GC Monday on this.

 

Yeah I think you may have the wrong sleeves. Sorry I couldn't help much.

 

What's the part number? I think it should be #4530.03



[Modified by B18C-EJ1, 8:36 PM 3/30/2002]

 

Front = GC200.64.58
Rear = GC180.64.44