go to k20a.org and pm bodyman/cjm/rbsjnh, they work at autofair honda.
good blokes.
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As Ive already received a complaint about my opinions
Can I requote myself - and say that IMO , OEM bushes (for majority of hondas owners here) are far superior to all other brands. This is due to superior comfort , longevity and quality of product.
If you drive race car. Go elsewhere.
That's why we use Super Pro, they actually develop their product rather than flat out deny there is anything wrong with it...lol
The kit is provided with a lubricant developed by super pro to repel water (stops the lube being flushed away when wet) and the internal surface of the bush has a helix design moulded into it so that the lubricant isn't pushed straight out when the post is installed but at the same time there is still material contacting the post to hold it in place.
I agree with most of your statements in this thread but you must realise that the toe arm is what is going to limit the movement in the side to side motion of the front of the trailing arm (left to right of the car when looking at it from the rear). The trailing arm bush is not designed to resist this motion, nor should it as it will bugger up the intended toe control of the toe arm with suspension bump and droop. Spherical bushings for this location have the pin completely free to slide, as it should be, and no-one complains about spooky rear toe with those designs.
Also OEM is good and when ordered from the US is practically the cheapest, or close enough. I got a pair of bushes and the tools to press them in and out for less than $190 and the tools made up more of the cost than the bushes.
Ben,
You should've known better to be posting defamatory statement without knowing better. I have personally walked into HR factory and all the rubber density/mixture are specially formulated in house.
We are merely providing an alternative harden rubber type bushes for the budget conscious consumers without paying double or triple the price of Mugen or OEM with half the longevity.
I do not personally have anything against anyone who voice their opinions but you saying "hardrace is copy parts" "will deteriote" without first hand experience is just pure ignorance.
Yes, we stand by our products 100% and will defend any uneducated remarks.
No the tools I got were really just two bits of pipe the right size to aid pressing the bush out of the RTA. One the same outer diameter as the bush, the other roughly the same inner diameter as the outer diameter of the bush. Oddly though the larger one wasn't the right size, so I just used a bit of pipe.
Yeah I thought that was what you meant, but it wasn't clear in your post. It was binding on the pin.
I would reserve judgement until someone has run 10+ years and 200,000km on a set of Hardrace RTA bushes. Honda got it wrong the first time, I wonder if Hardrace got it perfectly correct. I doubt it.
so i called ringwood honda and they got:
52385-SR3-003 (not sr3-000) for $78 each
52385-S21-003 for $106 each
mind is full of fk
i thought s21 was supposed to be cheaper??
and is the sr3-003 the same part?
Prices vary a lot around the planet. LINK