Sooo its been over a year.. quick review on some stuff

[TheRealNap0le0n]

Its been a years since my 5 lug swap

I went with the $150 ichiba fronts and z32 brakes, rear uprights and suspension and hubs in the back.

so far i have bearing noise that is just starting but the bearings dont really have play when manipulating by hand.

im just gunna press out the chinese bearings and press in some stock ones. my thoughts: money well spent

[Chris28]

Some food for thought...I bought used Ichiba hubs with bearings in bad condition intending to press OEM bearings in. One of the Ichiba hubs was worn so much that there was still play in it even with the OEM bearing pressed in. Moral of the story: As long as you replace the bearings before they get too bad you should be fine.

[TheRealNap0le0n]

werd...

mine dont move very much but i hear that..... im being lazy about it and have a whole set of OEM bearings laying around my shop i just need to put the car down and take the whole deal to a press.

all in all its still the easiest and most economical route

[Hijacker]

My only concern with trying to press OE bearings into ichiba hubs is that they might not be milled to factory spec. I'm not sure if they use custom bearings to press an S14 5 lug inner hub to an S13 outer bearing race or what. If something similar to that is the case, there isn't an OE hub you can buy that would work as there are minute differences between S13 and S14 bearings.

[Chris28]

My only concern with trying to press OE bearings into ichiba hubs is that they might not be milled to factory spec. I'm not sure if they use custom bearings to press an S14 5 lug inner hub to an S13 outer bearing race or what. If something similar to that is the case, there isn't an OE hub you can buy that would work as there are minute differences between S13 and S14 bearings.

I believe they are milled for s13 bearings. After my ebay bearings turned out to be totally wrong (shouldn't have ordered them, they were advertised as being for 89-98...red flag right there), I pressed the bearings out of my stock hubs and pressed them into the Ichibas. One side worked fine, the other not so much, and I'm attributing that to the inferior material of the Ichiba hub. The bearing housing wore down when the bearing started vibrating. There was basically no force required to press the bearing in, it just fell into place once it was halfway in.