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Old Mar 27, 2013 | 11:56 AM
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Finally got my camber kits on in the rear. The bolt heads snapped on both sides where the trailing arm connects to the factory camber arm. Talk about a pain to get broken bolts out. Ended up sawing off the welded nut on each side and grinding them smooth. How she is sitting now...

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Old Mar 27, 2013 | 04:40 PM
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I had the same problem with my rear set-up on the Civic where the bolt/bushing/etc was all seized together. What a nightmare.

Car is sexy as **** man. I love those wheels. If I can find them in chrome (yes, shiny) and in 4x114, I would love to get them for the teg.
 
Old Mar 28, 2013 | 06:40 AM
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How did you end up getting yours apart? I tried everything I could to not have to saw off the welded nut on the trailing arm, but everything failed lol. I have lock washers and 2 nuts on it now that I think will be fine, but I may have someone weld one of the nuts in place.
 
Old Mar 28, 2013 | 09:34 AM
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Took it to a shop and they chopped the nut off actually. I broke many discs from the dremel, and destroyed a bunch fo saw-zalls blades before giving up. I didn't have an angle grinder at the time unfortunately. Only cost me like $60 to have the stock arms put back in.
 
Old Jul 6, 2013 | 10:45 AM
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Just got a new steering wheel setup in the mail yesterday. Went with an NRG short hub, NRG Gen 2.0 quick release, and NRG wood grain wheel. Only took like 20 mins to install, pretty happy with it!

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Old Jul 7, 2013 | 10:00 AM
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Ballin! Looking good
 
Old Jul 7, 2013 | 08:50 PM
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nice how much did the whole steering wheel set up cost you?
 
Old Jul 8, 2013 | 11:52 AM
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I got it all for $249 shipped from a shop in Indy called Tru Motorsports. Theres a guy there names Jorge that will hook up good prices and match anyone online.


Theres a local right now thats been messaging me about trading wheels. He has a legit set of Volk TE37s and is considering a trade for my wheels +$400. My wheels are like $105 per rim, where as his are $550 per rim. Trying to make this happen even though im not a huge TE37 fan.
 
Old Jul 25, 2013 | 07:31 AM
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Originally Posted by plethoric33
Finally got my camber kits on in the rear. The bolt heads snapped on both sides where the trailing arm connects to the factory camber arm. Talk about a pain to get broken bolts out. Ended up sawing off the welded nut on each side and grinding them smooth. How she is sitting now...


dude .... sooo clean. what are the specs on those wheels?
 
Old Aug 2, 2013 | 11:43 AM
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Originally Posted by jayrdee
dude .... sooo clean. what are the specs on those wheels?
15x8.25 +15 Traklite Crosstreads
 



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