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dgz924s · Joined: 03 Nov 2002 Posts: 592 Location: Kansas

buy? Can anyone tell me if there are better than rubber oem suspension bushings available?Not looking for bushings that are one of the hi dollar or racing type. Are there neopreme bushings in oem size for a 924S/44? If not what is the best replacement bushings out there? TIA D

Lizard · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2003 4:18 am Post subject:

poly-eurothane bushings are the ones to get if you can find them for the car
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dgz924s · Joined: 03 Nov 2002 Posts: 592 Location: Kansas

Thanks I didn't mean neopreme.. duh

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924RACR · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2003 5:19 am Post subject:

A thing to keep in mind when deciding. Plastics (some of them) can suffer from wear problems, in a big way, mainly the front a-arm bushings, when used. This in comparison to spherical or stock rubber. Of course, spherical is expensive, and rubber is only good for street only. I have both; spherical on the racecar, rubber on the turbo for the street.

From what I understand, the bolt up front wears through the plastic bushing. I think the rubber bushing has a steel liner to avoid this. Of course, the obvious and still inexpensive solution is to just pop the steel liners out of the old rubbers and into the new plastics (after boring out the plastic pieces to suit).

Unfortunately, I do not yet know of a source for plastic bushings for the rear trailing arms. I think Paragon and/or 944Racing.com may be working on them. To date, the only answer for those I currently know of is the Racer's Edge Spherical inserts I just got.

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