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stay rubber - read (archive)
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Posted by David Brown on April 02, 2001 at 01:27:08:

In Reply to: leave rubber in control arms? posted by canada matt on April 01, 2001 at 12:48:56:

there has been a lot of discussion about this and granted there is no right answer, rather a case by case situation is better.

i have H&R sports and bilstein sports

soon i will be redoing my front subframe - and when i do that all of the rubber is being changed for NEW rubber. i will also reinforce the mount and steering box area and weld in a new frame rail. in addition i will be adding an ire. eng. front camber plate (ohh yeah baby). (perhaps some control arm angle fixxer uppers too)

WHY rubber? there is a certain amount of give that was designed into the suspension. if this is dialed out, extra understeer is a negative affect.

BUT my suspension isn't stock? yes i know. but there still is a decent amount of suspension travel in an H&R/bil sport setup. urethane is really for cars with little suspenion travel, such as 250+ lb/in springs and stiff shock setups (bilstein sports are stiff enough). i picture urethane on cars with four wheel coilovers, to be used for serious track work - and frankly in my "plans" i wrote up for my possible switch to four wheel coilovers - urethane bushings aren't on the list.

just my input,

dave brown

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