It is really important to be careful with the control arms when pressing bushings in and out otherwise you can bend the arms. We found this out the hard way when our upper front control arms would not fit back in the car. We were able to carefully bend the arms back into shape with some careful application of heat and leverage. I want to note that I did not personally do this, I had a local shop use a press and they got a bit aggressive.The passenger rear adjuster ends up under this protective cover for the fuel filler neck. This cover prevents anything in the trunk from bouncing around and damaging the filler or vent hose so it’s not a good idea to just throw it away. Instead, we removed it and cut a notch in it so we could reach the adjuster. Silver’s also sells extended adjusters and you could drill a hole in the cover and run the adjuster through it instead. The cover is aluminum so it’s very easy to modify. You can also see the Quest rear strut tower bar that was installed in our car when it was still in Japan. Notice how it has a removable center section. This is necessary to get the spare tire in and out of the tire well.Make sure to use a torque wrench on all of the nuts and bolts and install new cotter pins in all of the castle nuts. The torque wrench is really important. It’s tempting to just crank down on everything by hand but the sheet metal isn’t all that thick and you can deform the subframe and squash the bushings which will bind the suspension and make for a horrible ride.The rear toe and camber are set with eccentric bolts and the car will need to be realigned after removing the entire suspension. We took the Capp to a friend’s house and performed a string alignment the day before our first autocross of the year. We set the rear camber at 1° (matching the front), front toe at 1/16” in and rear toe at 1/8” in. Again, front camber and caster are non-adjustable in the Cappuccino so we’re stuck with factory settings.
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Any way to use an eccentric bolt in the front of the front LCA to get some camber adjustment? Miatas, RX-8, etc do that and it works “OK”
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