Handling Woes...

[EG30]

you can add more castor with whiteline's castor kit, which is pretty much a washer kit installed on the control arms to create the additional castor angle. Not a very elegent setup but it sure works well and only cost about $50 plus install.

hard to troubleshoot your problem in front of the keyboard without experiencing the suitation myself. I've driven plenty of ED, EG civics with over 200-300ks on the clock with the orig suspension ie shocks, bushes and the rest that are getting worn and yet the car still tracked true and felt stable to me. And since you have half decent tyres and looks like 15" wheels ( rotas? ) so the vagueness wont be from gripless skinny tyres either.

koni yellows great choice, make sure you install them front and rear with the set of dc2r springs.

Best to get a competent and honest suspension place to check out your fundamentals before installing your mods and speculating what could be worn or not. Wilkinson suspension or Glide are the best in Perth in my opinion. I got a wheel align done at a bob jane tyre shop out of convenience and while they adjusted the toe settings fine and gave it the ok, they failed to notice I had 1 neg of positive camber on one wheel caused by a damaged stub axle that was bent when I mounted a kerb once.

[vinnY]

^ while on topic, which kit would i be looking at?

F Caster adj kit - lwr c/arm KCA366 adds +0.66 deg
p 41
F Caster/camber adj kit - c/arm KCA371 +0.66 caster +/- 0.66 camber
p 41

ignoring the type of car, would i be looking for the caster kit alone or the caster/camber kit?

[EG30]

not sure vinny, i bought the the castor adj kit 2 years ago and recently got adj camber via skunk2 adj upper control arms.

and .66 deg +/- camber adj not a lot of range really.

[TypeLess]

I had that problem once, that was when i carried heavy load in my trunk. So the ride hight on the rear was a lot lower than the front. Maybe check the ride hight on your car, specially the back if it has been lowered.

[vinnY]

yeah it didn't sound like much .66 degrees..
anyone recommend any kits for ek's?

[Limbo]

just wondering what are you do driving at 140km/hr?

ANyway, the way you stop it is all new polyurothane bushes and newer firmer shocks. I did this before and it helped quite abit.

Also front upper and lower strut braces help again

To eliminate it completely you really need to change it your gonna to have to shorten the rack at the loss of normal steering.

[squish85]

I had that problem once, that was when i carried heavy load in my trunk. So the ride hight on the rear was a lot lower than the front. Maybe check the ride hight on your car, specially the back if it has been lowered.

Might be what u mentioned TypeLess.. It seems my rear has not been lowered at all... the front are running stock shocks with Eibach springs..

I was driving along some twisty hill roads with a 110k limit in the dead of the night... (will not specify where it is... ).. Just hoping to get more handling outta my car..

Will try full konis and dc2r springs... then poly bushes or sway bars after that...

[vinnY]

which eibach springs you running?
chances are the koni setup with the eibach's will be better than the dc2r springs with the koni's

[squish85]

which eibach springs you running?
chances are the koni setup with the eibach's will be better than the dc2r springs with the koni's

Not sure vinny...it was already installed when i bought the car... I only knew it was Eibach when i went underneath to service my car.. They're really low springs..

I'm running 195/55/15 and my front wheels have no gap from the around the top edges of the fender.. I decided on dc2r springs cos i wanted the same ride height as the dc2r.. (mine's abit too low..).. But i realise that I'm really taking the risk of having it up too high... hahaha

[vinnY]

ah try to grab a part number google it and see what they are

on another note if you need some dc2r springs let me know, got a set here but decided to stick to my eibach's simply because i'm lazy
shouldn't be too hard shipping it to perth

[JohnL]

To eliminate it completely you really need to change it your gonna to have to shorten the rack at the loss of normal steering.

?????

[JohnL]

But i realise that I'm really taking the risk of having it up too high... hahaha

Part of the problem may be running it too low, especially with soft dampers. With such a set up you may be bottoming out and this may well be contributing to instability / erratic handling on top of any instability caused purely by the soft damper rates.

At any rate, 140kmh on old stock dampers, asking for trouble...