Rear trailing arm bushings?

[Gro Harlem]

Do any companies make rear trailing arm bushings for the MX3?<p>If not, I might be able to get a company to make some urethane ones. I plan on taking apart the rear of my car, and i'll be able to supply them with the oem bushings to duplicate.<p>Not sure if anyone is interested though.

[maldo]

Drop Luc an email at SRD, he is big into track events and has started supplying us with bushings/suspension related parts. If there is interest I am sure he would consider them.

[MrMX3]

I'm not sure what exactly these do, but I want to get rid of all OEM bushings. So if you get 'em made and the price is reasonable, I'm in!

[marshmallow15]

i plan to replace all or most of my suspension bushings as well.

[millionflame]

Luc already has front bushings, so it wouldn't be much of a stretch for him to make rear bushings.<p>~A

[Gro Harlem]

looking at these replies, i'm guessing there are no bushings made for the mx's. I already sent my trailling arm to the bushing company to see if they can make them. I don't have a press, so i couoldn't get the OEM ones out, so I just brought them the entire arm while my car sits on jackstands (doesn't run yet, so its no biggie).<p>i'll let you know what they say.

[millionflame]

Gro, can't you modify Protege/323 bushings to fit???<p>~A

[lstpier]

Problem with the rear control arms and trailing arm is that movement of these parts is in 3 axis. You can't make these too stiff otherwise it will limit suspension travel or simply the bushings would not survive. Front control arm bushings can be made solid like the Nylatron ones since movement is only on 1 axis. Real solution would be to fabricate custom trailing arms and control arms using spherical rod ends (heim joints) to provide full 3 axis movement but eliminate all rubber mushiness at the expense of harshness. Oupps, just told you what my current project is all about...

[lstpier]

Problem with the rear control arms and trailing arms is that movement of these parts is in 3 axis. You can't make these too stiff otherwise it will limit suspension travel or simply the bushings would not survive. Front control arm bushings can be made solid like the Nylatron ones since movement is only on 1 axis. Real solution would be to fabricate custom trailing arms and control arms using spherical rod ends (heim joints) to provide full 3 axis movement but eliminate all rubber mushiness at the expense of harshness. Oupps, just told you what my current project is all about but just don't ask for them next week. Should be tsting the new setup on the track all summer before thinking to put a kit on the market.

[Gro Harlem]

The bushings i'm referring to aren't for all 3 arms. THey'd just be for the trailing arm itself...replacing the stock rubber ones with something else.<p>The protege bushings are quite a bit different from the MX3. the mx3 uses a longer trailing arm for some reason compared to the pro. The other arms seem similar, cept for the one where the swaybar link is, which is of course different (but could be used on the protege and vice versa if you wanted to swap the swaybars).