Looking for some suspension bushing suggestions, Which is best? How hard to install? Any recommendations or advice |
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Looking for some suspension bushing suggestions, Which is best? How hard to install? Any recommendations or advice |
nsr-jamie |
Jan 16 2011, 09:44 PM
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914 guy in Japan Group: Members Posts: 1,182 Joined: 7-November 07 From: Nagoya, Japan Member No.: 8,305 Region Association: None |
Hi, just about to pull apart my entire suspension for the big winter project...I have all my suspensions parts ready to go (Koni shocks,Tarret 19mm front bar and 150 pound springs).... the last part I want to replace is the suspension bushings....what I am asking here is what is everybody using for their cars? My car will be a high performance weekend fun car, occasionally driven to work on nice days, mostly weekend mountain driving and occasional autocrossing...looking for a nice sporty ride.
I know Weltmeister makes a complete kit that Automotion sells for around 70 dollars for the set....than I noticed Tangerine has their sets too, and I always hear good things about the Elephant Racing bushings.....I was thinking about going with the Elephant bushings but they are expensive. Is installing the bushings a major job? I have never done this kind of work before...if any body has any advice or some suggestions or other bushings please feel free to post and thank you Cheers (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) |
tradisrad |
Jan 20 2011, 10:55 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 985 Joined: 11-September 06 From: San Mateo, CA Member No.: 6,815 Region Association: Northern California |
Jamie,
You can do the work your self it is not that hard and it's rewarding. The Elephant front bushings require JB Weld for the install; can you get that in Japan? The trubo tie rods are also a nice improvement, there was an issue 9in the past) of the rubber boots being of poor quality and I am not sure how that issue stands today. I also replaced my rubber steering donut with a aluminum billet coupler, we may have taked about this in another thread. But if it is something you want to do this is the time to do it. let us know how it goes. -Rob |
nsr-jamie |
Jan 20 2011, 09:40 PM
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914 guy in Japan Group: Members Posts: 1,182 Joined: 7-November 07 From: Nagoya, Japan Member No.: 8,305 Region Association: None |
Jamie, You can do the work your self it is not that hard and it's rewarding. The Elephant front bushings require JB Weld for the install; can you get that in Japan? The trubo tie rods are also a nice improvement, there was an issue 9in the past) of the rubber boots being of poor quality and I am not sure how that issue stands today. I also replaced my rubber steering donut with a aluminum billet coupler, we may have taked about this in another thread. But if it is something you want to do this is the time to do it. let us know how it goes. -Rob Thank you!! What is JB weld? I have been in Japan too long and have not heard of that one before...... Yes, we talked about the rubber steering donut in the past, I ordered one from Tangerine and its here now. I plan to do this all at once...one problem I have is I have no real place to work on the car and not many tools....I will have to ask my friends shop to help me out on this one I think. Thank you and cheers Jamie |
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