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Posted By: rbc on November 17 2014 at 11:39:18 PM
My sprint car came with bronze bushings in the rear and plastic bushings in the front. Is it okay to run plastic bushings front and rear?
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its a prefferance thing, ive run both, but notice the plastic starts to deflect and wear quicker in the rear, expessially at high wing speed/rough tracks, regardless if your track is routinely rough the cycle(life) of the bushing will decrease, obviously the weight of the car will be on the rear majority of the time, thus the (harder) bronze bushing will last longer, some guys like to routinely ( more often) change them and plastic is easier to work with, ive noticed a great deal of wear on the plastic on the LR of my car and i simply choose bronze at all the corners, your maitinance and clearances to the arms should be checked and rechecked for maximum life, my most noticeable problem with a bar i couldnt quite get reamed out right turned out to be a ovaled tube, it didnt matter what material i was using for bushings, both require cleaning/lube and maitinance, i preffer the bronze simply because of the wear, I carry several (new) plastics in the trailer just in case, and rarely throw out the old ones either unless they are really bad, ya, just never kno what kind of patch up you may need for yourself or your pit nieghbor someday. in the case of a crashed or ovaled tube, a old one could just be the remidee for the night ...
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