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Strut tower bars, for the money, really don't do very much in a Sol, coupe or sedan. On a hatch they have much more function. As for sway bars, from my readings (been spending a lot of time reading about professional Honda racers and their cars). They can actually inhibit desirable flex of the chassis when cornering. They can make your car understeer something fierce. Apparently the trick is that they loosen the front sway bars so that they will allow some flex and then tighten down the rear sway bar. Apparently this helps immensely with allowing the rear end to push outward more in corning. Giving you a little more oversteer and allowing the front wheel drive car to corner better. The other recommended method was to skip them completely and put the money elsewhere. Energy Suspension <--- good stuff there. Nice prices and very fast shipping. Done 4 transactions with them in the last year and every one was perfect. I will let you know on the carbing. I bartered with the guys at Robear for $169 to my door for both. As for alignments: You don't need a shop to adjust your camber. With the front A-arms and the rear upper control arms and a level, or a plumbline, and an hour of your day is all you need.

Not finished installing yet, but this is what I have for a pile of parts I have been working over the last two months when I have time: F2 coilovers Skunk2 front and rear camber sets (ended up going with this as the stock camber at stock height on my sedan was bad enough it's eating tires and I had it checked - nothing is wrong ) Blox rear LCAs Carbing front and rear underbody frame braces Energy Suspension master kit. Total cash that will have been spent is about $1100 Still need to pick up some new rubber, but that probably will wait until next spring/summer. Anyone have any additional suggestions toward this?

snag a couple updated pics will ya?

sounds good to me. for function the car should never see more then a 2" drop anyway. I have to maintain reasonable clearance for my gravel driveway and back-country roads. i did the rears for a similar reason: all the bushings were shot and i had not learned of energy suspension master kits yet. it was actually a couple bucks cheaper to buy a new lca set then to buy the oem bushings. and fix the old. BTW, via IM discussion robear just coughed up a set of the Type II F2 Autolife coilovers (the ones nancy quoted previously) for $760 to my door. I accepted.

Would you suggest this for both front and rear? Any thoughts one front lower control arms? They seemed to me to be a bit excessive for my needs. Thought I would ask what you guys thought before I dismissed them completely.

going to revive this because it is a rather nice topic to keep alive. The following is what I have been looking at. My goal is to have a street setup that I will be driving daily, but I want enough that I can auto-x when I feel like it. I am not going for full race, just better performance. Not sure if the camber kit money would be better spent elsewhere. Should I choose a cheaper camber setup since it is not a full race application? I am/will be driving this car 20k+ a year, so camber must be set correctly as I don't want to blow through tires so being able to align the camber correctly is a must. I plan on doing more with sway bars and braces later. So now I am just focusing on failing oem part replacement. I just installed rear LCA's. Are the Omni front LCA's something I should really be looking into? I plan on rolling with a 1-2" drop max. Anything more and I will lose driveability on my country roads in the winter.

think your bushings should move up a notch or two in priority. i hate listening to peoples squeeky-ass dropped civics when i am sitting at a stop light. The full energy suspension kit I found was around $130 for one of every replaceable suspension bushing. http://www.energysuspensionparts.com/prodd...03&cat=1025 full energy suspension master kit for 92-95 civic and 92-97 del sol, $128.37 and free shipping

Thank you kindly You had mentioned such company previously and I had failed to follow up with it. My bad! Interesting place. They have such a crummy website but their prices on some items, especially suspension parts, are highly competitive even with eBay pricing. Just bought the LCAs, and I am using your list and eh6's list of parts above as a blueprints for my suspension rebuild that is in-process. For those in the know it would complete the how-to/what-to part of this if you can slap estimated pricing on this so newbies know what they would be in for on a build like this.

broke as weiner? where did you/can you source the omni lcas for a snappy price? I am working on my 6th vendor for finding lcas and all of them are either out of stock, higher then msrp, or companies that were flaky as hell and didn't respond to my inquiries.

i've seen the X brace in the cab on hatches, but never anything under the car. I would think it would have a detrimental effect on your clearance though. Espicially on a dropped car.

All parts for a eg sedan how about a turn signal bulb socket that will fit my eg? don't need the housing, just the bulb socket. (mine fell out driving through a construction zone and took the socket with it) set of driver side good condition b-pillar exterior door trim panels for an eg sedan. The two parts that are between the front and rear windows. pass side rear light assembly plastic cover that goes in the trunk. pass rear door handle innards - for manual locks if it makes a difference. broke the handle internals. need the whole mechanism and the exterior handle. Need sol rear speaker brackets. And I need preston to sell me his sol mud flaps.

I'm still pimping stock, so I have nothing to offer experience wise. But I am intently watching and reading as I will need to be redoing much of the suspension before too long.

Back on topic: This is what happens when you put 1800 pounds in the back of a jeep.... Yes folks, it is indeed sitting flat on a bottomed out suspension. Very rough 45 mile drive home with this load.

These are the vehicles I have owned in the last 6 months or so. When I get a chance I'll dig up the other 4-5 I have owned in the previous two years.