Energy Suspension bushings or adjustable goods.

[wa-chiss]

Yay, I just got my stimulous (spelling) check today, $600, and I have a few suspension things that need some attention. IE: tension rod bushings, ball joints, control arm bushings, tie rod ends, and some others I can't think of righ now. It's a semi-daily driver. Plus, as some may know, I have a 1900mi drive up ahead in a few months.

I know Energy Suspension sells a bushing kit for the S chassis and up till now I was going to go that route. But, I see bigger and better things in the future and am now concidering getting adjustable suspension parts with pillow-ball mounts and that good stuff.

Two things I'm thinking of:1: How friggen hard is it to change the bushings vs swapping adj parts on and having a shop align the car.2: Price. "Depending-on" will probably sway me one way or the other.

I'm not looking for a "How To:" or a "this much" but instead, an "I've done _____ and _____ is what I think about it"

[Slappy]

Bushings.

Toe links , Traction rods ect only come with metal bushings on one side , you still need bushings for the other side where they bolt to.

I just bought a Energy Suspension master set for $145 shipped from FRSport.com. Traction rods are useless unless your into drag racing plus you have to know how to adjust them, but toe links i might get later down the road. If you only get aftermarket arms , your spindle , RLCA and rear subframe with still have stock bushings in them.

[hilux30]

I got the S13 master bushing kit last week, I installed the front control arm bushings today on new control arms, and I love them. What a change. Now can fling the car hard into a curve and I DONT CARE (it is lowered with thick swaybars). Point is pillow ball I like not, even here in AZ the ride quality just simply bad ( tried some last year). Unless you doing hard core autocrossing, Energy always worked form me, even on my old Crown vic cop car. As far is the allignment, that is yet to come when I'm done.

[idahotuner]

I finally finished installing my bushings.

it is not exactly and easy job. it is messy and time consuming but i have been told it is one of the best improvemnts you can make for the s chassis. Took me a total of 12 hours to change mine. and i didnt do it all at once. and i didnt do the swaybar bushings or endlinks. because i am gettign new ones with my suspension tech swaybars.

the only ones i didnt change were the RUCA's because i got adjustable ones. the only other adjustable part i might need is a toe rod depending on how low i dump my car but right now it doesnt need them.

[jvladamir]

i just did all of the bushings in my car and have installed adjustable RUCA's as well and i would say 100% save for adjustable pieces..... but also get the bushings for your stock replacements in the backing plates/knuckles

[idahotuner]

its 6 of one, half dozen the other. you will have to buy the whole kit to get the bushings for the knuckles. and the front tension rods.

you might as well get the kit and do it now. then as you get adjustable peices you can install them.

[CouperHero]

Just go TEIN BAY BE! haha.. j/k i'd go energy.

[Shabbernigdo]

personally i went with the ES master kit. i was thinkin about the pillow ball suspension pices but from all the reviews ive read i dident really feel the need for them my car is my daily anyway so i figured poly would be best.

Also found the S13 ES master kit for 111$ shipped from amazon.com

[240DRFTluver]

I rebuilt a 1987 Honda CRX SI and put energy suspension all over it. They are really amazing. i would go that route. It is also nice that the complete kit is only like $140ish

[S13_love]

Old thread.

[Warped161]

[DMan II-40]

I read the stimulus check part and was like, "WTF" it isn't tax return time and that was last year....

[TroubleBound]

To bumper: I am sure that wa-chiss will really appreciate your response-less opinion on this poll he made 2 years ago.