Quote Originally Posted by slow_hatch
The trailing arm bushings are a PITA. That is the main reason I kept my civic control arms. I bought the tool to replace them, but the DA ones are a different size and the tool is of no help. That and I had to roll my fenders to fit my wheels even with the civic arms, if i would have kept the DA ones i would have needed to pull the heck out of them or ziz wheel the lip off.
Check your tire size on that, too, as well as your wheel offset. I can't remember to spec what my setup was, but I never really had a problem except in chassis-twisting bumps and humps in the road with a loaded car. And if you ever knew my car, it sat low in the rear...

Quote Originally Posted by 00CelicaGT
i figured that would be the best way, thanx brad . plus i already have the rear disc setup disassembled from when i put everything in the hot tanks at work to clean all the dirt, greese, and grime off of everything. everything has been tagged & bagged untill i get another shell/car to build.

evasive- i bought my set up off a guy in hamptom (by AMS)that was parting out an entire 91 integra. the E-brake cables are in really good condition, actually the best iv'e ever seen on a honda that old. i have replaced the calipers, added ss braided lines.
Well if the majority of the work is already done, I can understand...but I'd still have been focused on just using all DA stuff. Good find on the part, though! And keep the DA's ebrake cables if they're in good condition. The SS lines won't really help that much, but if you're replacing them to begin with, good work. I never replaced my calipers, though. Mine weren't frozen.
Quote Originally Posted by StraightSix
Using the Integra arm would be fine. They *DO NOT* push the wheels out. Think about this, if that were true, would you have been able to swap the spindle over to the Civic arm? The stampings for the Integra arms have the same shape as the Civic arms with the exception of the size of the trailing arm bushing. That's the only difference.

Another way to think about it takes into account Japanese manufacturing processes. It's far cheaper to make one trailing arm with a single change (the hole for the trailing arm bushing) than to make two different arms for each model line. Any further geometry changes would then be more easily made in the smaller parts like the compensator arms, UCAs, and LCAs.

FWIW, I went the spindle swap method since the bushings in my trailing arms were new and the ones in the Integra arms were worn out.
While that DOES make sense, I thought HT had done a big research on it and found it to have pushed them out? Was this theory every disproven?