Energy master kit or adj. arms..

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mixeds14
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So I have a master kit for my s14 but I'm debating on getting the rest of the adj arms instead.. Its sitting on coils with the necessary adj arms to fix the camber,toe misalignment that come from lowering the car.. My car is a dd with some auto x at times and would like to be able to drift it sometimes. Sooo

The question is what would you guy go for or HAVE, adjustables or master kit.

Pros,cons on either and what u use ur car for..

Input would be highly apreciated and info may help others choose their set up..


Hoffman5982
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The master kit also replaces the bushings on the rear uprights, where the end of the arms without the spherical bushings bolt to. Will you have leftover bushings? Yes. I'm not sure if you can buy just the ones for the uprights that you need but you already have the master kit so that's that. You should also do your differential and subframe bushings at this time too.

I need to get off my a** and do my ES bushings..

mixeds14
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That's good to know, also I was wondering about the how it rides on either set up it just seems like the arms would be a bit rough for a dd..but I don't know.

daemonyk
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I have solid subframe bushings, full adj arms, stiffer anti-sways, and 8k/6k coils on my DD and I love it. You feel the road texture more, and chewed up poorly maintained roads kinda suck, but other than that it feels pretty good to me. My .02 :gotme

Maybe see if someone in your area has ajd arms, see if you can ride in their ride and feel how it feels?

Hoffman5982
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I have 7/5k coils and it's super comfy, but rubs like none other if I take any kind of significant corner. I'm planning to go to 10/8k soon and install the mast kit. Should be pretty uncomfortable, but that's what I'm piecing my stock s13 together for.

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asoomal
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PU bushings don't work in our car's rear end.

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Hijacker
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I'm with asoomal. Try to source out hard rubber bushings if you can. The poly bushings bind up too much and prevent the suspension from traveling. Float did a video comparison between ES poly bushings and Megan Racing hard rubber bushings on the rear of his S14.

s14-megan-racing-rubber-bushings-t565567.html

I'm going hard rubber for my rear uprights, RLCAs, and FLCAs. SPL arms with spherical ends for all the multi-link arms. I would go with hard rubber rear subframe bushings if I could, but I'm doing an S14 rear subframe swap, so I'll need solid offset bushings to make that happen.

To answer the original question; you already have at least a RUCA from what I gathered from your post. The rear toe arms have some adjustment from factory, so they're not dire to be installed. If you haven't swapped out your front T/C rods, I would do that. The rear T/C rods should be swapped out for ease of alignment balancing if you've done both the RUCA and rear toe arms. I would say if you haven't done the rear toe rods yet, go ahead and get the bushings taken care of. Replacing the 20+ year old factory rubber will give you better results than an adjustable toe rod.


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