IOnlySeenVarnish

Well, I have an 88 CRX SI, and it looks to be dropped somewhere from 2-3 inches, but will probably be put at 2 inches so that I don't have to scrape everywhere I go. So what kind of kit would I want?

From Ingall's, I'm noticing :

A -3/4 degree to +1 degree.
A +1.25- 3 degrees for the front

A 1/4 - 3/4 degrees for the rear
A -2 degrees to +3 degrees for the rear.

So which ones would I need to get to straighten out those tires? Thanks for any help!

beerbongskickass

I have H&R sport springs on my car that drops it 1.8 inches in the front and 1.6 inches in rear and I didn't need a camber kit. I don't remember my camber numbers after I got it aligned, but they weren't that bad. I think if your going 2 inches or less you should be fine.

alfaaay

Do you want the camber kit for tire wear purposes, or do you want to be totally dialed in?

If you just want to make sure your tires last you, get an alignment before deciding on a camber kit. A lot of people wear their tires out because their toe angles are all messed up and not because of negative camber. My front wheels are sitting at -3 degrees and I got 20k+ miles out of my last set of tires because my toe was straight. If you've got a lot of negative camber, that's when you want to look into getting one a kit. I'd probably get the Skunk2 or SPC kit for the fronts if I wanted to be totally dialed in.

BTW, hello to all HMT, this is my first post!

B16MIKE

welcome,and good first post.didnt even start out with what turbo to get or how fast do you think my car will be crap.

projekteg

if it's dropped 2-3 inches, you'll definitely need a good camber kit. the ingalls style (cheap) ones, pretty much suck and are hard as hell to adjust properly. you'll need to get the skank2 or similar style that replaces your whole upper 'a' arm. i've had experience with both, and the 'a' arm replacements are a million times better/easier to set and definitely worth the extra cash. i believe it's about 200 bucks for the front set, and for the rear, all you need is a longer bolt and washers, searh on honda-tech.com or g2ic.com for a write up on how to do the rear with bolt and washers if you don't know what i'm talking about.

boosted_b16

all 3 of the crx's i have owned have been droped between 2-3" havent had a camber kit on a single one with roughly 3-4 deg. of negative camber ranging from 14" steelies to 17" wheels with shitty and good tires and i have not had ANY tire wear issues period...... maybe its because i only put about 500 miles a month on any of them i dunno?

HMT-Admin

welcome alfy

Thats funny you say ingalls kits are hard to adjust, because they are actually very easy. I had ingalls front and rear kits on a few of my crx's and have been very happy with them. The front is very important to get dialed in. Yes some camber is good, but when you are over 2.5 degrees I think its to much. I like to have a nice contact patch of rubber hitting the ground when I launch. As far as the rear, ya washers do work, but when the car is on the alignment rack how easy is freaking putting washers behind the upper control arm? The ingalls kit makes it way easy to adjust. For the front on crx/civic's you have to be carful, because one time I bought the sprint extreme camber kit that would allow -/+ 3degree in the front, and when fully adjustesd the control arm was sitting on the pinch weld/fender grove! I couldnt believe it. So go with the kit that allows +/- 1-1.5

Jeff

surfer

If you drop a CRX you definately want to adjust the front camber for sure, I was geting 6000 miles on my tyres when i went turbo in mine. Leave the rears and you got a good handling car.

IOnlySeenVarnish

Well, apparently, I'm going to be waiting a little bit to see about a camber kit. Unbeknownst to me, funds seem to be slipping away at a very fast rate. But I did happen to come up on a good deal for some full body coilovers, and hope that cures some of my suspension woes.

Mainly, I am going to redo my suspension, new wheels and tires, and possibly a camber kit because driving to and from work is a bitch right now. I deem is unsafe. I was driving I5 north just past Vancouver at about 50 miles an hour because when I would try and go faster, I would start getting weavy. Anyone have any guess as to what that might be? I'm aiming for my alignment since it's all fuggered up.

I need to get this thing running right and hopefully with all this crazy information I'll pick up, it'll be running like a nice car someday!

Thanks for all the help so far, but lemme know on this new thing! Also, let me know if any of you know where I could score some decently priced 15-16'' Rota wheels. I just don't think that SI's, Blades, or Webs will look good. Oh, and preferably a gunmetal or flat black finish would help too!

90turbohatch

I've had very similar experiences. I've got the ingalls kits and they were easy to adjust, but I had to cut out that pinch weld/fender glove thing that Jeff was talking about for my control arm to clear. That was a bitch.