help. what is this part called

stindelsol · Post by **stindelsol** » July 19th, 2011, 1:37 pm

hey guys im new to this forum and my budys got a mx3 we are trying to fix up.. cant think of the name of this rod but if u can let me know, would be thankful

marcdh · Post by **marcdh** » July 19th, 2011, 1:44 pm

Trailing Arm I believe!

stindelsol · Post by **stindelsol** » July 19th, 2011, 1:46 pm

thanks alot man !! now just need to find where to buy them

DeadMaker · Post by **DeadMaker** » July 19th, 2011, 2:01 pm

What's the problem you have?

Nd4SpdSe · Post by **Nd4SpdSe** » July 19th, 2011, 10:11 pm

Weird, my trailing arms were square tubing...that's not...

stindelsol · Post by **stindelsol** » July 21st, 2011, 6:12 pm

yah same but i needed a pic..... so question ... will the 1995 trailing arms fit the 1996 ???? ?

Daninski · Post by **Daninski** » July 21st, 2011, 6:22 pm

All the same.

stindelsol · Post by **stindelsol** » July 21st, 2011, 6:27 pm

how about the hood... they the same or diff lights or .... thanks

Josh · Post by **Josh** » July 21st, 2011, 6:30 pm

Nd4SpdSe wrote:Weird, my trailing arms were square tubing...that's not...

I was thinking the same... I have never seen a trailing arm on these cars that's an I beam style. I have several sets and all square. hmm weird.

Post by **Mooneggs** » July 21st, 2011, 8:37 pm

Josh wrote:
Nd4SpdSe wrote:Weird, my trailing arms were square tubing...that's not...
I was thinking the same... I have never seen a trailing arm on these cars that's an I beam style. I have several sets and all square. hmm weird.

x2... you got any more pics of this?

wytbishop · Post by **wytbishop** » July 21st, 2011, 9:11 pm

GS and RS are not the same. Different offset at the bottom end because the spindles are different. Just FYI.

2fazed · Post by **2fazed** » July 23rd, 2011, 11:34 am

I'm not sure about the front, but I just finished a rear disc conversion, and have both the GS and RS pre 94 arms to compare, and there the same.

Josh · Post by **Josh** » July 26th, 2011, 5:45 pm

^^ exactly, originally I only transferred GS Hubs for my RW disk conversion. later on an entire rear end to my car from a GS and arms were all the exact same. And I have Protege and GTX trailing arms from my AWD conversion, and they were the same... Could they be off a 96GS out of Canada. I know they were supposed to have a different rear sway bars. maybe they had different trailing arms as well.

wytbishop · Post by **wytbishop** » July 26th, 2011, 6:02 pm

When I designed the poly bushings I had to measure everything.

The RS arms that I used had a shorter bushing than the GS. If you look at the RS trailing arm at the end that connects to the back of the spindle the arm is centered in the bushing. On the GS, the bushing is the same diameter but wider and not centered on the arm.

I also checked them against a Protege and a 323 to see if the RS bushings would cross to those cars and they were the same as the RS. As with many suspension items, the MX-3 GS traililng arms appear to be unique to the GS. At least that was what I found.

And they have different part numbers...

source...http://www.mazdamotorsports.com/pdfs/co ... 296_cg.pdf

MX-3.com

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