Rear bushings
11-25-2008, 08:53 PM
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Rear bushings
I am planning on doing the bushings in the rear upper and lower. What would ya'll recommend I get? I don't take it to the strip and launch on it or anything. Since the cold weather arrived I have been getting some bad wheel hop so I am hoping that, and new quads will fix it.
11-26-2008, 09:52 AM
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they are stock arms. They are stock bushings, they look pretty toast one wheel even sits back farther then the other. I don't need anything fancy I just dd but I give it hell at least once every time I start it lol
11-26-2008, 10:26 AM
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Do you have a press? Or is there some other huge money savings factor that is causing you to not get aftermarket control arms?
If you were plannin on getting new shocks as well...you would probably save money getting stronger control arms since you wouldn't need your quad shocks.
Regardless of lowers, your going to want to put rubber bushings in your upper arms, not urethane. Urethane is fine for lowers though, and most aftermarket arms come with them.
On that note, I'd hate to break it to you but your probably not going to get much traction in cold/wet weather no matter what you do. Either use some sense and not try to floor it everywhere or get a winter time beater. Unless theres snow accumulating, with some conservative driving you will never spin tire, at least I don't. But a few winters in the stang is enough for me, I'd rather let the cavalier take the chemical assault from the salt.
If you were plannin on getting new shocks as well...you would probably save money getting stronger control arms since you wouldn't need your quad shocks.
Regardless of lowers, your going to want to put rubber bushings in your upper arms, not urethane. Urethane is fine for lowers though, and most aftermarket arms come with them.
On that note, I'd hate to break it to you but your probably not going to get much traction in cold/wet weather no matter what you do. Either use some sense and not try to floor it everywhere or get a winter time beater. Unless theres snow accumulating, with some conservative driving you will never spin tire, at least I don't. But a few winters in the stang is enough for me, I'd rather let the cavalier take the chemical assault from the salt.
11-26-2008, 01:27 PM
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I don't drive it in the winter. We don't have snow here yet, I have only been driving in town for the last month because they have be salting the highways. My floor is pretty holy so I don't let any salt at it. I parked it today until the spring.
Traction is not my main concern I have never spun out or anything. I just want the tire to spin when I want and not hop up a storm(this has gotten worse with the cold).
The main question is now why is the poly not recommended for the uppers and the uppers you buy come with poly bushings? Will it be too harsh on the boxes?
Traction is not my main concern I have never spun out or anything. I just want the tire to spin when I want and not hop up a storm(this has gotten worse with the cold).
The main question is now why is the poly not recommended for the uppers and the uppers you buy come with poly bushings? Will it be too harsh on the boxes?
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