I've been looking for a better option than ES bushes to bring me closer to factory ride comfort. I've come across SuperPro. I emailed sales and was told that they do different series of urethane bushes. He suggested their Duro7's as they are urethane equivalents to rubber bushes. Any experience from SuperPro products will be appreciated.
Yeah but are they hard? I want to try and find a cheaper option to the OEM direction as most you need to buy are within the assembly. So the trick is something as close as possible to rubber.
Very wise move Cam. Get the softest ones you can find. I have found thru personal experience that really hard urethane bushes do not last nearly as long as stock rubber an of course, transmit more mechanical noise into the cab. They are a good cost effective alternative to Hiem (Rose) Joints in a sometimes competition car but the life is just too short/inconsistent, and benefits too few to justify the bother in a daily other than bragging rights IMHO. they do work great initially tho!!! Just in case, an installation tip, leave all suspension bush bolts loose and let the car onto its wheel BEFORE tightening up. Its a bit of a PITA to do but really worth the bother. This leaves the bush in its relaxed state more or less in the middle of the suspensions arms travel. Tightening everything up when everything is sagged will torsion the inner metal bush grossly on suspension compression, unreasonably twisting them and results in torn bushes and very short life as a rule. Have fun E
I think I priced everything up to over 2k from the states to replace all my bushes with OEM's haha ouch! Im interested to see what the so called rubber replacement Duro7's are like. If their as soft as rubber they should last as long right? Or doesn't urethane last as long in general? Why oh why don't these aftermarket places offer a rubber replacements? I suppose the answer is because if you want OEM you by from the manufacturer. If you want to stiffen up your cars handing you turn to aftermarket. But most of the time car manufacturers make you buy the entire arm for example to get the bushing. Trust me I know! I am constantly arguing with engineers at Ford when they start releasing what we call finals (the arm for example) for service but no bushing... They say the bushing can't be serviced separately for what ever reason they think up. Funny thing is though the previous model had the bushings released for service seperatly from the arm.....and so the wars begin there would clearly be a market for rubber OE replacements because of this. I believe only Ford employ service analysts like myself to keep these engineers on track... So for Nissan, the engineers decide what can be serviced. And believe me, the fights I've had over the most easiest of parts to service is ridiculous! You start to believe they are robots! Anyway I'm blabbing in again.... Supercheap sell SuperPro stuff apparently, so ill go in and see how "soft" the Duro7's are....they are still urethane though, ill be squeaking down the the road, not clunking
The group buy is a an excellent opportunity to buy the best available bushes at the best price, including some that can not be bought separate from suspension hard parts from Nissan ! http://www.aus300zx.com/forum/showthread.php?t=328654 The prices are substantially lower then CZP with only local shipping costs not international ! If you are looking for the best components at the best price, this is it. Rubber is the best imo for every reason other then price. Are you looking for a bag of coloured beads or the right part for your car ? EDIT: $2000 if you buy complete suspension components to get bushes. (Just read your post) I understand that budgets need to be considered, you dont have to replace every bush, although it would be nice, finding a good suspension shop that can give you a report on what "needs" to be done is hard, Pedders usually just print off a full overhaul quote for several thousand doallars.
I have super pro in my diff (although I asked for nismo ) as my energy ones fell apart (they go brittle ) super pro feels like the energy ones but any urethane will require changing sooner than rubber I would just go nismo .. a little firmer but they are rubber! :br: and you will never change them again Harden up a little .
Oh they are rubber! I didn't know....hmm so just a little firmer ay? Going to have to think on that! Thanks for the feedback guys
