OMG this is purely amazing, you sir are a genius!
OMG this is purely amazing, you sir are a genius!
cant wait for the new rear setting
god. I always come in here and drool over your car.
In for more pics!!
Last edited by gfrg88; 01-28-2012 at 09:47 AM.
Heres your PICS!Originally Posted by gfrg88
god. I always come in here and drool over your car.
In for more pics!!
X2 DEF!Pics of your car never get old.. no matter how many times we've seen them!! I should start looking around for a nice clean 1st gen!!
So let's say I wanted to import one of these sexy 1st gens (RHD FTW) to the US. How much would it cost to at least buy a beatup one?
Low loud lovin it!
bosozoku inspired 86 LX-I hatchie
~~~~~~~IG @the_boso_3g~~~~~~~
More than you can afford pal...
Dude, im assuming this is how far this car has come, amazing!
Hmmm.....smaoke em'.....
Haha nice. Seriously though, I've always been so jelly of your car and I want one really bad
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bosozoku inspired 86 LX-I hatchie
~~~~~~~IG @the_boso_3g~~~~~~~
I have no idea how much they gonna be haha sorry. Trade me with a real LHD USDM 1g? :p
Anyway so using the stock 1g strut mounts appears to be a fail idea since its been making a lot of weird noises and the springs doesnt sit properly on the top perch. My strut bearings are failing anyway so I figured, why not make the stock Evo mounts to fit?
Check out my super accurate method of making a template for the Evo's mount
New hole drilled on the strut tower
IT FITS!!!11
I'm gonna add a plate under the mounts so they would fit between the plates and the strut towers. I'll get pics of that later
A lot shorter now
Compared to this:
Does it work? Yes. A LOT better since the bearings in these mounts are much superior than the lame ass needle bearings on the stock 1g mounts. Steering feels so much lighter and a lot better now. The noises are gone. And I actually mounted the passenger side mount further back to compensate for my screwed up caster from the tweaked frame (N) But hey it drives straight and better now. My 'eyelignment' seems to work just fine :p
I'll keep an eye on them and see if mounting them like this is gonna affect anything. I doubt that it would though considering the Evos have them mounted the same way but like I said, I'll make a sandwich plate between the mounts and the strut towers or get the old holes welded shut or something.
Also, car is about half inch lower now. Sorry I just have to :p
Alright I'm going to take you up on that so when I find one I'm shipping it to you with a quickness.carzy stuff with the coilovers. You made it look so easy to do man. Hella good work....now fix the header problem so you can SLAM It!
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bosozoku inspired 86 LX-I hatchie
~~~~~~~IG @the_boso_3g~~~~~~~
Poor fender
damn get some more caster boy
Dam that looks a lot beter man. I'm jelous. id say do a pic of the side of the car to show how flush it is and how the wheel stick out. that is some badassness right there!
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bosozoku inspired 86 LX-I hatchie
~~~~~~~IG @the_boso_3g~~~~~~~
dude, this looks great! very genious! (Y)
Looks great... those tires are too beefy though!
1984 Accord Hatchback
2005 Mazdaspeed MX-5
2007 Mazda 3
YES MOAR CASTER!!!... looks good btw!
edit: I hella space out, yeah I meant camber!
Last edited by obdriver6; 02-02-2012 at 11:34 PM.
Caster wut?
I think what you heed is more camber! Its what tilts the tires inwards
Yeah I figured haha. Funny how they mentioned that. My caster settings are messed up on both sides from the tweaked frame (N) But I've compensated the difference with moving the strut mount back so it would be parallel with both sides. (My passenger strut tower, crossmember mounting points as well as the wheel has moved back about an inch compared to the driver's side.)
Drives straight and fine now so I guess I can't complain.
You should try and roll those fenders with a bat or metal pipe. It should flare them out a bit in the process.
What year Evo are these off of? This is very temping to do to mine now that I know that the strut mount works.
i meant caster. wheel is way too far back in the guard for my likings :P
caster really is just the axis that the turning wheel pivots on... I do know that to adjust the axis most cars really force the lower control arm back or deflect from the "zero" point. But in this case he would be heavy positive therefore needing less positive caster. Remember, you can't have negative caster (although it seems like you could) but when you look at his wheel turned out, it doesn't seem to have that much caster...hmmm,
there is an inherient increase of caster when lowing a vehicle, and its possible that it isn't possible to change this on his car, since its macpherson strut, or at least for it to look normal in the fender wheel, but really i think this is what he was trying to correct with the modification of the top hat placement for the strut. Without adjustable tophats i think he is stuck with what he has...
fwew, thinking about this whole thing makes my head hurt...I guess most of what i just talked about really only applies to my prelude...i think i have over generalized here...sorry if what i posted is completely wrong... Some one shed some light on this?
One thing is for sure though, I love me some positive caster, makes my car turn better, but damn hard to keep going straight...
This is pretty much what happened to my crossmembers. And no, they are not bent. I had both of them replaced and my frame was bent (N)
Hada compensate for the difference by bringing the right wheel back about 1cm or so and the left wheel up front about 1cm as well so they would be parallel to each other by adjusting the radius rod. That and the left side strut tower is bent too (moved about 1.5cm back) so right now my caster and possibly camber too is all messed up.
What I did was, I mounted the left side strut mount about 1cm further up front and the drivers side about 5mm back so they would be equal with both sides. Funny how it drives straight/fine now even with my 'eye'lignment done :p
I really would love to see what its like on the alignment rack tho. My dad told me to not get the frame straightened back as there are cases with older cars like this with hidden rust spots basically having the whole front end ripped off haha. These band aid fixes works as a dd, drives fine, it goes straight. steers fine even with the unequal caster o.O Not sure how it would work on the track but then I don't plan on doing that anytime soon, at least not with this car
BTW its off an early 90s lancer/Evos. Evo III to be exact, I'm not sure of the year?
edit: its early in the morning so I'm sorry if I don't make any sense at all in this reply kthx
Last edited by Hazwan; 02-04-2012 at 04:27 PM.
I read this and I want to hug you......in a none homo kinda way. haha. U sir are a genius!
I just located all four Koni Insertable Struts for my ludes housings and I think I'm going to keep the cut springs but hope for a better ride quality with the Koni's. The difference in the cylinder size is amazing compared the preludes size.
I lol'd. Can't wait to see yours slammed once again!
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