Does anybody have more pics of this car???

yeah I tried to the 4x4 thing. Looked about an inch away with that. I measured the pinch on the body to the ground and the wheel to the ground (on stands). They were both 4". So it should be close. Ill just lay it down tonight. I know the back is in need of coming down too.

when I pie cut the control arm am I just notching the sides and bending the top over?

Originally posted by jcordova



when I pie cut the control arm am I just notching the sides and bending the top over?



YES. KEEP AN EYE ON THE PIVOT POINTS BINDING UP TO. SINCE THE ARM WILL BE SHORTER (BECAUSE YOU PIE CUT IT) THE ARMS WILL HAVE TO SIT MORE VERTICLE, WHICH MAY BIND ON THE PIVOTS.

^^^^ So how do you cure the pivot points binding?

what size pipe are u guys useing to make yer frames for the unibody drop

hes retired

Originally posted by fatheadjames



^^^^ So how do you cure the pivot points binding?

in looking at j's pic, he kept the stock pivot bushings & is running them verticle. you could rotate those pivot bushing so the stud is point toward the motor or even downward. we ditched those bushings & used pete & jakes 4 link busings on mine held at the bottom, so binding isnt a problem.

So how do I start today?

first off the car laid out with the pictures I posted yesterday. I was surprised, excited, and mad all at the same time.

I was surprised that it actually went down. It sat on the "frame" of the car. Excited because it was actually down. Mad because it's not low enough.

The little plastic side skirts are still like two inches from the ground. This is where if it was a truck the body drop would come in.

So deciding that wasnt goign to cut it. I put it back on stands and started triming the control arms. I ended up extending them about a half inch and changed the angle on the ball joint. This made it so the wheel went way far up. BUT it had bad negative camber BECAUSE the lower ball joint was binding. It made it so I couldnt pull back the spindle any more to correct the camber. That's when I stopped for the night.

Soooo. Back to the topic at hand. How did he get his car so far down?

If i can get the car that low. then I would make some lower control arms out of steel. I have all the stuff to do it. I actually had new bushings that were the same size as the ones on the stock control arms. If I can't get it that low then I wont make them.

Wait what am I saying. I forgot to mention that when it was laid out I could still fit the old body kit on it. Do you know how bad that sucks. The last few hours of working on the car I was just wishing it was a fucking truck.

How did he get it to sit that low????

Originally posted by loudciv



Originally posted by fatheadjames



^^^^ So how do you cure the pivot points binding?

in looking at j's pic, he kept the stock pivot bushings & is running them verticle. you could rotate those pivot bushing so the stud is point toward the motor or even downward. we ditched those bushings & used pete & jakes 4 link busings on mine held at the bottom, so binding isnt a problem.

yeah you can run them any way you want. If you loosen the bolts on them the free right up. I originally didn't want to use the stock one (and I still may not) I even went and bought four bushings and steel to make new ones. but once I got started I didn't want to fuck with them anymore. Like Adam said in the past, you really have to fuck with the control arms a lot.

Civics don't have everything hanging as low as Preludes and Accords. Are laying just the engine and crossmember or the actual pan? I know the only way to lay pan on my Accord is by raising the engine.

Pan??