Bush? Should I settle down and play with one?

[Guest]

Was watching this

and had been told by a Subaru technician that stiffening up the front bushes of my BD with fozzie ones, would cure the stock engineered under-steer.

Who's experimented with bushes: brands/specific replacements/total re-bushing? I'm think of doing that before sway-bars, as it's a 15 year old car, they all must be shot to sh!t by now.

Worth it? or don't fix it if it isn't broke? Worse still, did any after-market manufacturer even bother making bushes for bd/bg Legacys?

[Guest]

this is not legacy specific. I want to know what anyone has experienced in replacing them

[Scoobydoo]

If you're talking about the ones on the control arms, Whiteline make an anti-lift kit which are pretty good.

[Optical]

The forrester bushes have more offset so will give you more caster, but wont stiffen it per se

read up on caster and macpherson strut geometry to give youself an idea of what it does.

[bobbyjimmy]

Could also get the Whiteline KCA375 bushes which are poly and add caster.

http://whiteline.com.au/product_detail.php?part_number=KCA375

[nztintin]

forester bushes will blow out on a non forester setup, i've just had this, from new they lasted 10,000kms.

maybe if you can get the non gel filled ones you would be ok with them

[Guest]

 Scoobydoo said:

If you're talking about the ones on the control arms, Whiteline make an anti-lift kit which are pretty good.

Yeah I've looked through the Whiteline catalog, Not sure whether the anti lift kit is what I want to go for before a rear sway bar. The YouTube vid had aftermarket replacements for every rubber/gel/silicone bit I could see under the car. Not sure of the value of such extensive and time consuming modifications. I imagine there would be less body roll and a stiffer ride. Just wondering what the feeling is like and where I can get uprated bushes, especially after what nztintin posted; it needs to be legit.

[nztintin]

I've got sti rubber bushes on the front of the foz now, they are more a solid rubber mount

the RA now has super pro urethane bushes, they are super hard, havent tested them yet to see how they perform, I'm thinking they will have a bit of noise from being so hard.

sti bushes are available from your subaru dealer, super pro i don't know where to get them myself, my mechanic bought them for me and i still havent got the bill for them...

[Guest]

 nztintin said:

I've got sti rubber bushes on the front of the foz now, they are more a solid rubber mount

the RA now has super pro urethane bushes, they are super hard, havent tested them yet to see how they perform, I'm thinking they will have a bit of noise from being so hard.

sti bushes are available from your subaru dealer, super pro i don't know where to get them myself, my mechanic bought them for me and i still havent got the bill for them...

You'd suggest starting at the front with bush's? Is there a guide showing which bush's can and should be replaced to notice improvements?

I'm a motorcycle mechanic so bush's are a little over my head; I'm used to bolting suspension metal to metal.

[nztintin]

IMO i wouldn't do bushes first

Bigger rear swaybar will help increase oversteer, do good swaybar bushes when you get the swaybar

Lower arm bushes i only did as i blew out the old foz ones so i took the sti ones off my track car and put uprated bushes on the track car cause i needed some sort of bush for it.

Theres plenty of topics around to give you ideas how to change the handling of your car, try looking at the whiteline "rex on rails" experiment they did, most people tend to agree with the findings from there.

[Kiwi_Fozze]

holy 2 month thread bump.... how much did the urethane bushes cost you tintin? im looking at pulling the subframe spacers and will need new bushes to deal with it...

[nztintin]

my new bushes for the foz i stole from the track car, the track car bushes cost me $200 plus the housings, make sure you don't get gel filled bushes, get the standard ones with 3 hols in them or get aftermarket ones in wrx housings