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Ordered on Wednesday, they showed up yesterday! That grease is THICK nasty stuff. I used as much as I could.
Install was FAIRLY straightfoward. I will say though, anyone want to guess how hard it is to install a stiff, not-really-compressible poly bushing into a stock 951 drop link? I'll give you a hint - REALLY freaking hard. I impressed myself with my caveman-like ingenuity though. My tools? A smooth hose clamp and a rubber mallet.
Feels pretty good installed, we'll see how it drives.
Naturally, as soon as I had the car running for a few days, the ignition switch went. So I'm waiting on that. The days that I did get to drive it it felt great - but I was never pushing it very hard through the corners. Definitely better than stock though.
FYI, resurrecting an old thread to provide input for future searcheres
I went with these on my 90 944 S2 that I do auto crosses with. Knoni shocks, 250lb front springs, M030 swaybars front and rear. I went with the rack bushings and front and rear sway bar sets. They did stiffen up the performance and made everything fell more responsive than the rubber parts.
I have driven the car with my son and done between 12 and 24 auto crosses on them. So some where between 24 and 40 individual user events ( my son did not run ever event). You get between 6-14 runs per user per event. The courses are a long (1.2 mile) 64-78 sec.
The rear sway bar and rack are doing well. I do have a concern that the rack may be shifting under loading. I need to investigate further.
The fronts are below. This was taken Sept 2015 after around 2 summers with them.
Front Ricochet Poly Bushings
As you can see the drop link control arm bushings look like they have exploded under the load. The end drop links are OK but do show some ware. The inner bar bushing had sheered the ends off and had walked out of the mounts.
The bar in front was a commercial triangulating bracket that fatigued under the loads. That is what you get when you use M030 bars to do the work springs should be doing.
These may be good alternative for rubber for street conditions but do not stand up well to more demanding conditions.
08-12-2012, 06:17 PM
