Had a little settling going on in the frontend so jacked the car up to adjust the coilover to find that something was going wrong. I was able to move the entire wheel assembly 1" front to back, it was super weird. Started checking things out and narrowed it down to the lower control arm bushing, at first I thought it was the bolt was wrong, but more disassembly led me to these gems.
I have never seen a bushing fail in that amount of time. Approx 300 or maybe a little more miles. 10 auto cross runs, 6 speed stops and 4 laps around a track.
These things are like gum. Super soft. We compared them to new in the package super blue bushings (IPD) and these were softer but not by a ton.
I thought that possibly the ATF from the power steering leak had hurt them but it did it on both sides.
So I tore everything down, first side fought me but the pass side was 30 mins tops.
Late Friday night trip to the twins and they whipped up these awesome pieces.
These are delrin with new sleeves. They pressed in the lower control arms pretty easy and we were off to the races.
Curious to try these out. We have no idea how long these will last at all, they are just a test. Initial drive was a massive improvement in turn in and steering feel and feedback. Little additional NVH was added by changing these out for some reason. Car is night and day difference with these installed.
Huge shoutout to these guys too. They have been a huge part of this thing, helping out with motor mounts, steering shaft, custom one off bits here and there like the dash insert, these lower control arm bushings, the LSX badges and lots of hard to find bits and pieces.
Thanks Scott and Taylor!!
Got the car together at 1 am, up at 5 for the portland transmission show, its a low key show but a great event tons of variety, mostly hot rods but some killer VW's.
Asher gave me a hand on Sunday trying to isolate my fuel leak. We used the smoke machine to find it and its the filler neck gas cap, we dropped the tank and replaced the filler neck to be safe as it was all ovaled out. Still leaks....so I need a new gas cap.
Hardest job was getting the clamp on the filler neck at the tank.
Definately helped but still need a new cap. Smell is much better than before.
Drove it around town a bunch this weekend. Exhaust is too raspy for me, I think its the front muffler making the raspy sound so that might be on its way out.
Car is a riot to drive, badly needs an alignment and even more important a stereo.
Killer pics from LS Fest came in.
Weather depending.......Track day on Friday Night, IPD Saturday.
Lets hope for good weather.
Sean