Holy shit, you shared pictures! I'm in shock

Looks absolutely fantastic, even more so with the coils installed!

 

Looks great Jeff need more pics!

Dos you measure hub to fender before and after by any chance?

 

Shit sorry I forgot to do that. I wish I would have done that

When we first set it down the rear was dumped lol.

 

Haha yea it's funny how you have no idea what height it will be at until you put in the tires and get it off jacks. Then you're like oops haha!

Looking forward to final pics

 

Damn looking good can't wait to see the whole car

 

aww yeah! Looks great man. In for more pics!

 

Loving the new install.

 

Sweet deal, Jeff...sorry about your fender, I've been awfully close to fuking mine up when wrestling and using my foot to push the lower down...

PS...if you loosen all rotational bushings before pulling assembly in/out...it'll not fight you as much and you'll have more clearance.

 

front for now. We measured 25'' from ground to fender I believe. How long for the springs to settle and how much more does it usually drop?




rear height was 25.5'' <br/><br/>she's cambered in pretty good. needs a alignment badly




looks pretty good. Still will prob need to make some adjustments later on. Just waiting for it to drop a little more



prob going to take some tinkering and spacers to get it 100% flush.






old height.. on stilts lol




To me thats fairly low lol. Ive never driven or had a lowered car so Im being conservative for the time being..<br/><br/>You can see the little ding on the fender

 

i thought you were going to drop it? haha jk! what's your hub to fender measurement?

looks good man, but i think you need to go a little lower (or maybe it's because it's not flush or you have high natural camber?). i consider my drop somewhat conservative and i'm at 24.75" all around. the springs will settle a little but prob not more than 1/4".

the car already looks so much meaner with the drop and wheels now! did you keep the tein preload or did you add to it? I ended up going with slightly more preload just to make sure my springs weren't loose (about 1-2mm more) but i may take it back to tein default settings in a few months

good progress this year!

 

I just did ground to fender. And the front was 25'' so after they settle it'll go to about 24.75''? I prob will go lower but I just wanted to get it home and parked without any issues. Our roads are really bad here so we just went with this height for now. If I lower it slightly more will I need to get another alignment??

And yea we did the same thing for the preload just gave it a hair more.

Set all the dampening to 8 clicks

 

just giving you a hard time man haha. i think about 24.75 - 25" is a good drop height because it allows the car to look good while still maintaining full functionality and allows you to drive aggressive when you want. i've been lower and you seriously worry about every dip in the road, etc...not fun. i don't think it will settle another .25" but just wait and see.

i don't know if you'll need spacers just yet, if i were you i would try to set your rear camber so that it looks more flush. especially with the spc camber arm it will look more flush with the fender. try putting your rear camber to -1 to even -.75 to make it look flush in the rear.

also, you need to get an alignment every time you adjust the height. i have a lifetime alignment so it's not a big deal, but if you don't then i would wait until you dial in the height you like and then get it aligned.

 

Ill leave the height for now and just get the alignment guys to get the camber all dialled in to make it more flush then determine is spacers are needed

And your right about the drop. I still want full function of the car. I didnt throw all these parts at it to just creep around everywhere lol

 

yea we did all that, this dent happened when putting the new TEIN one in. just barely dinged the bolt off the fender

The car came apart really well actually. Was pretty surprised. The toe arms needed to be cut clean out but that wasn't really a surprise after reading about guys commonly running into that.

Undoing the rear end link is the key to having clearance and movement for the rear

 

very nice. ride height is perfect imo

 

Looking good, man...
basically, if you do a set of 15MM spacers all around, we'll have the exact same fitment.
Looks great..24.5 or so, is where I'm at... I used to be 23.75

 

Looks so much better with the coils on Jeff!....congrats man

You got the Skunk2 kit on the front, correct? Eventually I'll have to do that...but for now I need the natural camber.

 

Yea i think I'm going to have to drop the rear another half inch

And dark tower, yes skunk 2 front kit. I like it lol

 

Nice, man...
well, looks awesome...we're almost twinsies.

 

Almost is right! Still got a lot of work to do to get it hella flush yo

Just left the car at the honda dealer to get an alignment. They were giving me a hard time because nothing is factory. I said bitch stfu do you want my money or not? just get my tires straight! LOL

 

just tell them you made the car better and how it should have came from the factory haha

 

thats essentially what I said. I just got them to do provincial inspection last week and it passed with all the OEM stuff in. Then I just threw a ton of parts at it so technically its in even better shape now lol

 

LOL...my acura dealership loves what i've done!

 

If anything I've made it easier for them to align, suspension is only 1 day old lol

 

First time seeing a side profile. What wheels are those?

 

rota advan rz

 

Lookin good here!!

 

Wheels could be pushed out a touch, but the new stance looks good.

Nice work.

 

Nice! Get them spaced out some and she will be sitting pretty!

The only other thing I would address is those red brakes, but you did say you have the RL calipers coming so can't wait to see what you come up with there.

 

not rotas

Thanks man, yea I'm going to try 15mm spacers all around but I think it might rub, we will see

Thanks man!

Yea the red calipers are kinda ugly but not too bad, I liked them at first no I'm just like meh lol. And yes I do have the RL calipers but still working on them slowly. Prob wont have all that on till next year. Brakes on there now are literally brand new so gota wear those out first

got the car aligned. Man does the rear ever look a lot better now, nice and flush. Ill get a pic tomorrow, its raining today

 

No shit...
hhahahaahahahah...

 

and oh my front camber is 0.4 and 0.5 which is out of spec. But in order to adjust it to get it to 0 ill have to take it up take off tires, adjust it, put tires on, drop it, put it on alignment machine, see if its in spec, if its not do the whole thing over again.

What should I have it set at?

 

Came across your picture thread and love the color

Your drop looks really really nice!

The alignment tech's should be able to adjust the camber on the front while it's on the alignment rack. I think 0.4 to 0.5 negative camber is fine, adding a little camber on Honda's double wishbone suspension will help when you drive hard to minimize the amount the front tires go into positive camber.

 

thanks man!

What I meant to say was that my front camber is 0.5 and 0.4 positive , when putting in skunk 2 control arm we just set it in the middle but apparently its a tad off the middle lol

 

Whoah...you have POSITIVE camber?
This is why you have to play with it before taking in for alignment, man...let car settle...mess with it, play around, drive, change THEN align. Tires aren't gonna die in one drive.

I have those on this car, and had the upper adjustable balljoint on the black car and neither of them were accessible with the wheels on the car. I always try and adjust my camber myself FIRST, then leave the toe to the boys at Acura.

Anyway...no biggy, learning pains.

 

Im a bit confused on what your saying.

we set the skunk 2 ball joint in the middle and installed it. So there was no way to know what the real angle actually is until you bring it in for the alignment unless you have laser eyes that can compute angles.

The read out I got says 0.4 and 0.5 positive camber on the front which is only a half degree out from spec which I thought was pretty good by just eyeballing it.

They said the only way they can make the adjustment on the front camber was to put it on the hoist, adjust to what they think is 0 degrees or -0.5 degrees then put it on the alignment rack to see the true angle.

So with the + camber in the front at 0.5 degrees is that really bad?

 

whoa i didn't realize you had positive camber either...i've never seen a TL with positive camber on here haha.

the range is 0 to -1 for the front....most lowered people have -1.5 or a higher negative for the front. if i were you i'd change that to -.5 since you can without rubbing. i would not go positive camber.

i haven't had the front camber kits but i thought you could do it with the wheels on. if not, then that makes it a bit more complicated and to me isn't worth having a camber kit for the front if you can't adjust the camber while it's being aligned (too much work).

what J was referring to (i think) is that you can eye ball it pretty good, especially if it's positive camber.

if they are telling you to leave it you might as well sell it on the BM and buy oem. it's meant for you to get exactly what you want (which should probably be -.5 in the front). it's actually getting you out of spec alignments and provides no benefit, it's like paying more for making your car "worst" (for lack of a better term)

 

k I jist called them and told them I'm coming tomooro to show them

so that skunk 2 kit can be adjusted while on the alignment rack?

as far as I know its just a allen key with 4 allen screws on the plate that adjusts it. it should be pretty visible with the car on the rack lol

fuck I hate incompetent dealerships or they were just trying to gouge me hard

I basically paid for a 4 wheel align and got a 2 wheel alignment

 

i'm not sure, i had the kit but never installed it. to me it makes no sense that a camber kit can't be adjusted while being aligned. whether that's true or not for this item i don't know.

but i would research and try to find out first...if you can't, it almost seems not worth it especially since you aren't that low and oem would be fine for you.

regardless, you want to be within oem specs with a camber kit otherwise they serve no purpose

 

this was my thought exactly. I think you need a long allen wrench extension to get to it. hence why the alignment guy was prob saying we gota keep lifting it up and down etc etc, he prob just said fk i can't reach it lol