| The purpose of this is to show that DA knuckles can be used as opposed to EX knuckles with out any major alignment or suspension issues when doing the 11” brake swap. It’s important to note that after the initial readings were taken, but before the final alignment was done a upper control arm bolt came loose and therefore the true before and after readings are not known, but since this car is not equipped with adjustable pivots, the change is minor. The difference between the DA knuckle were noted to be the same as what most people found, about .25-.30 taller, however the steering arm is quite shorter. This should provide a quicker ratio and more effort required to steer the car The car has not been corner weighted, during this test the ride height was not changed via the coilovers, nor was it checked. With this being said, spending some time to corner weight and level out the car could end up with even better results The parts I used are as follows; DA Integra knuckles (Thanks Toad) DA Integra 290V Booster and M/C 93 Legend Calipers (Brackets milled by DrDisco69) 93 Legend Rotors redrilled to CRX bolt pattern.
Of course this requires 15” wheels The beginning alignment specs with Si knuckles were ....................LF............RF Camber____-3.8______-2.3 Caster______3.3______2.9 Toe_______ -0.27_____0.72 After the swap and some tape measure toe adjustments to get back to the alignment shop. Note the steering wheel has been off of center until the final settings were made. .....................LF........... RF Camber_____-2.9_____-3.6 Caster_______3.0______2.6 Toe_________-1.11____0.23 These are the final settings that we were able to achieve using the factory adjustments. ....................LF............RF Camber_____-2.9_____-3.6 Caster______3.0______2.6 Toe_______-0.12_____-0.11 Upon first sight it looks as though the knuckles make the camber all out of whack. Keep in mind this car had a loose driver side upper control arm as mentioned above between the time the initial specs were taken and the after specs were taken. If there was a trend of the tall knuckle really throwing off camber curves and such we would see the same trend on both sides of the car. If you notice the values flip flopped from side to side. I suspect that this is due to machining differences between the two knuckles. |