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Old Feb 6, 2002
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Cheapest rear camber solution yet.

I read this somewhere, can't remember where though. But all you need to fix the camber on the rear wheels is two bolts that are the same size, but a tiny bit longer than the stock bolts holding the upper control arm, washers for that size bolt, and thread locking stuff. You just replace the stock bolts with the longer ones and add the washers to space the upper arm from where it attaches and use the thread lock stuff to keep the screw from getting loose.
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It was at jdmfan.com - this is a direct link to the article.

It does say it's for 6th gen civics, but I've done a little work on the suspension of my own car and can tell you that it would still work for the 7th gens.
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Basically all you do is use washer from the hardware store to change the camber angle... It sounds like a really cheap DIY to me and sounds reasonable..
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cool, have you or any one else tried it on a 7 gen? keep us posted!
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uh... when you lower the car doesnt the camber have to be like this / \ and not like this \ / ? cause by adding the washers it makes it like \ /
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That would work. But the reason we buy "real" camber kits is cause its able to easily be adjusted. I guess if you got some springs, then you could set you camber and forget it, but for me. with coilovers, it is easier to adjust camber with the Ingalls(or Eibach) kit.
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its a welfare camber kit, you could just add/remove washers to adjust for ride height[IMG]i/expressions/laugh2.gif[/IMG][IMG]i/expressions/laugh2.gif[/IMG]
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my tech told me it wont work cause our rear is deferent they already tried and no luck!! sorry to burst a bubble guys
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our rear control arm setup is completly different....you must buy the complete rear trailing arm

specprod makes them dirt cheap

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you can get the ENTIRE camber kit, front and rear for around 100 bucks!

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i already tried the washer thing, doesnt work. ended getting a set of ingalls.
 
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