Best Bushings for my Application?, Oh noes! the choices! Options

[Brando]

Now, I use my car as a daily deutschebag and weekend autocrosser. Right now my front and rear end feel kind of soft and squishy. My car still has the OE bushings (cheap rubber) from 1975. I've felt the ride of a 911 SC with Weltmeister bushings and it wasn't bad, and also a 911 SC with the poly-bronze bushings from Elephant Foot Racing and that was just like riding in a new 993. BUT I've yet to feel how the ride in a car with Mueller bearings or Neoprene bushings are. Cost wise the Weltmeister bushings or Mueller Bearings seem best, but I'm more concerned with the ride of the car.

For those using different flavors of bushings, what do you reccommend?

[ArtechnikA]

QUOTE (tat2dphreak @ May 17 2005, 10:50 PM)

isn't there a bushing for street drivers? or is the 30-year old rubber our only choices...

Dwight Mitchell's NeaTrix bushings for the 911 were excellent street replacement products, but a 911 spring plate is not a 914 trailing arm.

Dwight knows 914's - it was his 2,0 that won the Manhattan Trophy (Best In Show) at a Parade a long time ago.

the materials exist, but the decision to build the trailing arms with molded in place rubber means it's virtually impossible to use the best materials for what you'd want. the same situation exists with the front A-Arms.

to use the material you want, you need an expensive mass-production manufacturing technology. since we need a field-replaceable method, we have to use materials that are suitable.