Mine already had screws in it, 2 up front and one in the back i believe it is? On top of like 6 clips or something throughout it lol.

 

They should have 2-3 screws in the wheel well, 3 plastic clips on the under side, and a bunch (7-8) slide-on type clips. Mine had the slide on clips, and 1 clip on the underside side

Took off the driver side fender to put some wire loom on the wires in their as well as using the zipties and screws to hold it down. I installed the Mishi couplers, too. While removing one of the fender bolts in the engine bay, the head snapped off, yay!

 

Does anyone know the energy suspension part number for the 96-00 Civic Rear LCA bushing kit by chance? A few quick searches only came up with 88-95 Civic kits.

Got under the car since it was making extra noise back there and the bushings on the Blox LCAs are shot to hell. I figure $40 ES bushings would be cheaper than replacing the entire LCA. Blox sells the replacement bushings for $20 per side, so I might as well go for the ES ones.

 

Pull some stock ones from the junkyard? My local junkyard charged me like 15 for the one, but you can find some where the bushing isnt too worn.

 

I already have a set of OEMs, but they need new bushings, too. The bolt seized and snapped off when I installed the coilovers. Knowing that would happen, I had the Blox LCAs ready to go with the coilovers. Honestly, I would rather just install new bushings (a buddy of mine has a bushing press tool), and not have to worry about it for at least 2 years.

If anyone has an EK with those rear LCA bushings, let me know the part number. I am currently waiting on an E-mail back from ES about it, too.

 

to the best of my knowledge the only thing energy suspension makes for the rear on civics is the trailing arm bushing. When I bought the master kit it did not have any rear arm bushings.

 

Yea, I should have updated yesterday. I found that I cannot use ES bushings in the Blox LCAs. I went ahead and ordered replacements from Blox last night.

When I get the time, the old ones will be pushed out, new ones installed, and I will be getting some 90A polyurethane and filling in the damaged bushings like I did with the engine torque mounts. We'll see how that goes.

 

^ This seems like a good idea! If it works lemme know how it rides.

 

Well,

-the LCA bushings should be on their way soon

-Side skirts will arrive once I find a local parting out his EK. I am not up for driving 2 or more hours just to meet up with someone for skirts.

-Replacement front speakers will wait since only the front passenger speaker is out. I have only about 50% of my hearing lost in my right ear, so the system really doesn't sound much different LOL

-Now for the tires, instead of buying new tires for the steelies ($150 for the fronts), someone is selling a set of CRX phone dials for $100 down the street from my work. Apparently, they are in "good" condition (have yet to see any up close pictures), and have 1 year old tires. Soooo, it might look like HCF will have two members with phone dials on their EKs.......and yes I will be slamming the car on it's nuts (yes, lower than it is now) if I get the wheels. Fingers kinda crossed on that one.

 

Mishimoto coupler! There is another down towards the bottom where the piping starts to go toward the bumper, but yea, no reason for a pic of that.



Wheels - front



Wheels - back. I know... yuck! They will be clean in the future .



Test fitted



They are 85-86 CRX SI "phone dials", or "buttons". Sweet, huh? Just one problem. The wheels rub on the brake calipers slightly. That means spacers, or grinding the caliper down (if not too much of course), right? Suggestions? I didn't drive the car at all with them on, but I saw the clearance issue when putting them on the car, rolled the car down my driveway a little and heard the noise.

Any advice as I am a noob to this type of stuff is appreciated.