I'm looking to keep the ride of this car a bit more soft/stock feeling. I understand that the spherical bushings generally increase NVH/harshness but if I keep the rubber at the axle side it might not be too much of an issues. I have aftermarket lower arms with poly. That didn't make the ride noticeably more harsh at all. It doesn't really matter too much to me this time around since I already bough factory uppers from Maximum.
For less than 50 bux I can get a full set of bushings for the upper arms and the axle side from Moog. I'm going to remove the stock bushings from the factory arms I have once I swap them out. When I get that done I'll post how easy it was. It will be a while because I'm moving and I just shipped my car out yesterday. Probably wont get settled in with a garage where I can work for almost 2 months.
out of the boxes (need to weld the seams and do battle boxes if keeping the UCAs) and you NEED to do spherical heim joints at the chassis side or you will break something. The stock 4 link is kinda crap but I have seen ppl run good times with the spherical UCAs, a lot of reinforcing and a panhard bar to control side movement. You can even get rid of one of the UCAs if you run the panhard. I keep waiting for someone to come up with a kit that allows us to run a single centrally located UCA like the S197 guys to. The MM torque arm is really nice but its effing heavy and expensive. For a car trying for weight reduction its not exactly optimal.
