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Originally Posted by preston
I wish you had stuck with the smartly dressed lady instead. Much better visual...
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Agreed, but we wouldn't really care if she ever put the dress on and my car might never get finished!
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Originally Posted by preston
...Is LDPE Delrin or is that the UHMVW ?
What is the difference ?
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All three are different "plastics".
LDPE, what I used to make the temporary bushings, isn't suitable for a suspension bushing. It's slippery enough, but pretty soft, and would deform with heat and pressure. I like working with it for some things because it machines decent and can be heated and formed.
Delrin is the badazz stuff that makes great race car bushings. It's strong and can stand up to the forces a suspension bushing will "see". The down side is it will also squeak.
UHMW is somewhere in the middle. It is relatively "quiet", and also somewhat self-lubricating, so it should make a decent performance street car bushing. Time will tell...
For a while, I was leaning towards going really hardcore, with all Delrin and rod ends in the suspension, regardless of the penalty in noise and harness, but have decided to soften its edge a bit, in hopes of spending more time behind the wheel - on the street.
It's still going to be like riding a hard-tail chopper - this will hopefully be the difference between one with a hard-mounted metal pan for a seat, and one with a padded seat with the little coil springs under it.
More technical plastic info:
http://www.mcmaster.com/#8574kac/=kkdq0p