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Yea I've seen a few ppl do the inverted tie rod on their lowered cars. I know a guy on the RSX forums made a set of tie rod ends, that installed inverted and worked well. The only thing is J's racing tie rods are actually reinforced compared to the stock rods.

I don't think I've seen anyone use the stock rods inverted. I honestly don't know if this would work or not. I assume no because mounting up or down makes no difference, the rod is still the same length. The J's Racing are actually shorter than stock.

 
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i've seen some fabricate an adaptor for the stock tie rods, but there was only one i've seen where he bought aftermarket inveted tie rods. it's where the arms of the tie rod end have a whole and a bolt goes from the top through the strut arms and through the rod end where a nut is screwed on the bottom, looks NICE, but no where to be found locally.

 
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the inverted tie-rod actually works, because the tie-rod will be less angled if your car is lowered a lot, but u'll have have a lot of things backfire with it because of increased bumpsteer, and steering response goes to hell i've heard. Plus, you'll need to change the tie-rod end boot a lot because of all the stress that'll be on it.

 
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Oh baby...everything is done.

I spent 5.5 hours at that guys shop today and wow! He spend the first 2 hours installing the tires and the ball joints. The rest of the 3.5 hours I was in the car while he corner balanced then aligned it. The car feels soo damn good.

The steering is now like stock, soo damn nimble and no bumpsteer. None of the slowed down sluggish feeling you get when you lower your car. The suspension actually feels a little softer over the little bumps, I think this is due to the RCA fixing suspension gemoetry. As for the tires I'm sure my grip has increased, its rumored these babies can pull 1.15 lateral gs. On top of all of that I think the corner balancing helped along with all the new upgrades.

Overall cornering speed has definitely increased, I took cornes at speeds I would normally take fast and the car took it all in stride. Even made me feel that I could corner maybe 5+ mph faster.


I need more time to feel out the car...but initial impression YEGAWDS!