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Good info JD, as always.. I will look into a proper alignment.

How do you actually get this done? go to a normal tire place and tell them I want an alignment setup for straight line minimal lift in the front?

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ya, its been aligned after being lowered, but not accounting for lift when launching. it has a little negative camber when resting, but less than a degree IIRC. ill post pics a bit later when i feel like going out in the garage and taking some :P

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CRX or ED chassis Civic on 24.5" slicks the fender gap should be at ~0.5" when resting, and camber around -1.5 degrees, maybe more. The car I'm thinking of has a camber kit and still needed the UCAs modified for more camber, not everything is going to be the same between all cars because - as you know - there's 1,001 different suspension combos out there. So, your mileage may vary and your CRX is going to be a little different but if you have wheelspin on the street at the common ~325-350 whp D16's make on pump gas there's something off somewhere.

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You will more than likely need camber kits for the front and you can use washers in the rear. Hondas dont have stock camber adjustments. Try to go to a good gemini. THey do 12k 12 month alignments so you can have it done as many times as needed in that time

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ya with my 24.5" slicks, i had to raise the coilovers a bit and i could barely fit a finger in there, so i think the height is fine. as for the 1.5* negative camber, im less than that. if i remember correctly, it was between .5-.7*

maybe ill look into some adjustable upper joints to make more negative camber. but as for suspension im just running some Tokico HPs and GC coilovers, nothing special

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I always do 1/2 degree negative camber, 1/8 toe in, and add a bunch of caster,

but it doesn't matter how good the alignment, suspension, or tires are if you have a worn-out bushings and bad joints everywhere. One of the best investments you can do is spend a few hundred bucks on new ball joints, tie rods, and energy suspension bushings.

key is realizing that you are going to spin with any kinda power but that there is a difference between spinning/going nowhere and actually having forward momentum while spinning.

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Ah NO, CDM = fail. Why are you going to put cdm parts in really important places :S. If you want good/ cheap parts spend a bit more and get it from rockauto.com

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I have friends who installed some rockauto bushings and joints, all on normal beater vehicles. One out of three kits has a ball joint that dies in under 1000 miles, the rest seem to do okay. I doubt it'd last like OEM, but on a beater it might work for a bit if you had to... :l

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put some stick em on your wheels before you take off