my latest additions to my superide:
R32 rear anti roll bar. part no: 1J0511409K price: £108.86
with 19mm poly bushes. ebay. £10.95
this difference this makes is unbelievable. less roll (obviously) and now i've not had understeer in the dry since, its just planted, more chuckable.
next up i recieved stainless adjustable tie bars from the harbour master AKA s3dave. complete with poly bushes for the two stainless arms, and poly bushes for the remaining two arms.
i also got powerflex bushes for the rear wishbones.
the quality of these bars is just superb. why pay for forge i do not know!!
i also bought new drop links as mine were absolutely ******** (thanks solly), even though the car felt great after fitting the roll bar i had nocking on rough bumpy roads
so, quite a bit to fit, and i hoped to do it in one day. how wrong was i.
mate was busy on his sx so i though id join on mine for company.
car jacked up, started to basically undo everything.
heres where the rear wishbone bolts to the body under the car, four bolts
notice the bush sits in a cup like thingy majig
s out and matching them up in size to the originals, i later made them half a turn, 180 degrees longer, to reduce some of my silly camber.
its at this point with the two bars removed and the hub assembly and wishbone is held on by the driveshaft only, that i decided to unclip the brake line to give me some movement
anyway regardless of having the brake line unclipped i was fannying around with the wishbone trying to take a good look at that bush when this happened:
******
only twisted the line and split it, i ran to the garage me and my mate found a screw and put that in the end to bung it up for now.
what id advise is, dont attempt fitting of that bush with the brake line attached. split it, bung the end, then you have the freedom to move it around, you'l need to top up fluid and bleed that brake, but at least you wont break anything.
i proceeded to fit my arms back in after this.
only problems were i had to prise the subframe end open to allow the fat poly bushes to fit, a hammer helped.
arms fitted, everything lined up (difficult) and bolted together and we have this:
the inner bushes did seem to crush when tightened, but it seems fine
at the end of the day i managed to limp home, the following day superdad fitted a new piece of brake line and we bled them, all is fine
end results are a much more solid car, just feels new, back rides alot better, especially after adjusting the camber.
im leaving the big wishbone bushes for another time when i have a whole day to do them, il need a grinder to cut the bolt that holds the bush in, its that corroded!!
