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Honda Insight (2nd Gen) front and rear progressive springs, Tema4x4 30mm front Strut spacers, and Progress rear sway bar.
Not going to lie, I am shocked by the improvement in ride quality and handling characteristics that it now has. Body roll significantly reduced, no longer sways on the highway from wind, handles bumps/potholes much better, and with studded tires now keeps up with my Subaru (with no studded tires).
Just picked up one of these for our upcoming 2500km drive (over 5 days). Will be doing 10+ hours of night driving so thought it was a bargain at that price. ($99 NZD)
Over a year ago I bought my repaired used Fit knowing it had been in a bang up on the front end. It had really low milage.
I had the alignment done right after buying it.
Fast forward to now and I don’t recall going over any crazy bumps but my alignment may be slightly off again.
My question is/ If a car has been hit in an area involving the steering system will that car always be prone to getting out of alignment more than a car that’s never been hit??
Over a year ago I bought my repaired used Fit knowing it had been in a bang up on the front end. It had really low milage.
I had the alignment done right after buying it.
Fast forward to now and I don’t recall going over any crazy bumps but my alignment may be slightly off again.
My question is/ If a car has been hit in an area involving the steering system will that car always be prone to getting out of alignment more than a car that’s never been hit??
Only if something is still bent or damaged that they missed (suspension or steering). Hope the frame is not bent...
I'm slowly in the process of doing a rear drum to disc conversion...
I got the Scarebird conversion bracket and decided to test fit against the Wilwood brake kit's adapter bracket (so many brackets)... the 11" kit that is. And it doesn't fit together. There are three points of contention, that don't come into effect at the same time, they only appear if you attempt to clear the previous issues.
1.) the dual plate design of the SB bracket causes the main axle plate to interfere with the adapter bracket, preventing it from coming down to align the holes in the 11" position.
2.) even if you clear the axle plate, the adapter has a bit of a lip that then conflicts with the angled cut design on the SB's brake plate (the two black lines in the following image). The holes ALMOST line up as it is, just not quite enough to get a bolt through. If it was shaped like how the Integra's actual axle is, or just less angled, it wouldn't be an issue.
3.) I flipped both brackets to see how it would look if I could line up the holes for the 11" position... the adapter bracket ends up partially blocking the one of the four mounting holes on the axle plate. Leaving out one of the four attachment bolts, the closest one at that, sounds a little sketchy.
Well, crap.
The reason I bought the Wilwood kit is because it allows switching between 11" and 12.2" rotors just by moving the kit's bracket. But I bought the 11" version just to be sure it would fit in the 17" wheel. This kit claims needing "only" a 17" to fit... well, the BBK for the front claimed needing only a 15" wheel, but didn't even fit in the 16" Enkei RPF01. I ended buying 17" PF01s to fit the brakes since I couldn't do a return on the BBK.
So the two brackets don't fit together in the 11"position, but they do work together in the 12.2" position... now I just have to hope the whole thing fits as a 12.2" kit in the 17" wheel.
edit: Actually, I think I'll buy the bracket used in the Fastbrakes conversion kit. Based on the pictures in Steven Hung's thread, the holes in the bracket move down a few degrees and looks like it should fit.
edit #2: after doing some checking with rotating the Wilwood bracket around the Scarebird bracket, it looks like the Fastbrake bracket probably won't work as it is either. The only way for the Wilwood bracket to clear all the mounting holes and with enough room for a bolt head too, is with the adapter at the 12 or 6 o'clock (top/bottom) positions. But at that point, I don't know if there would be enough overlap between the two plates that would be welded together with enough rigidity and strength. I guess 12.2" rotors it is then...
A brake kit can fit 15" wheels, even if it didn't fit your 16 or 17" wheels. If you want brake clearance you need to be buying wheels that maximize brake clearance, the PF01 and RPF1 do not attempt to do so.
Research is useful.
There are brake kits for the S2000 that will clear some 16" wheels but don't even come close to clearing 17x9 +45 RPF1. My 17" Panasports BARELY cleared the OEM brakes on my S2000, yet some people have even put 15" wheels on them.
Oh and I took my Advans off & put my OEM wheels/Blizzaks back on the car.
Last edited by mike410b; Oct 18, 2019 at 04:14 PM.
