ZHPizza's red car

[ZHPizza]

Man I am so overdue for an update here...

Let's take it back to August when I got going on the poor man's spherical RTAB project.

There's more pics and info in that thread, but man, what a headache. I had so much trouble getting them to press in straight and replaced the lower control arm bushing with a bearing at the same time. The results: the rear end hits LOUD over 40% of bumps in the road, but feels amazing. I still have better fitting tires waiting to go on until I can decide if the noise is acceptable. On the current stretched/hard sidewalled tires, it is not, but the car crashed hard with those tires and OE rubber bushings. Just not loudly.

I was also chasing a creak in the rear, so I replaced the spring pads. No dice. Pretty sure it is the rear sway bar mounts making some sweet metal-to-metal music on the frame. I'll have to address that later...

On another note, I picked up a 1.4 bar expansion tank cap on the cheap! $11 for some peace of mind over the OE 2.0 bar cap and a lot less dollars than the 1.2 bar ANODIZED MACHINED VTEC cap from G.A.S.