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Originally Posted by Shawn B
IV. Bushings
(Applications: B13, B14, B15)
Very informative thread on rear suspension bind on the B13, which includes links to other threads on the same issue:
http://www.sr20forum.com/showthread.php?t=134794
I took Steve's sage advice and I did search around the Forum.
Another very good thread with Steve dropping knowledge on the issue of suspension bind:
http://www.sr20forum.com/showthread.php?t=168950
If you are not going to the track, perhaps you utilize the car as a daily driver and occasional autocross, this is something to carefully consider:
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This stuff about suspension bind is baloney. Sure there is some bind but if you take the damper out and stroke the suspension though its range of normal motion by hand you can see that the bind is minimal, like it adds perhaps 5 lbs to the wheel rate, perhaps as much as 10 and there is no way you are going to feel that in a sedan!
What will happen is that the suspension will tend to move towards toe out under trail braking which exagerates trailing throttle oversteer. If you have dirven a car with stiff suspension, sticky tires and stock bushings you will know what I mean, its a vauge feeling.
If you drive a car with stock bushings and a full ES set there is a big difference.
Socres of guys who actualy race these cars or drive on the track with full ES sets are not wrong.
Your suspension is not going to lock up sending you into wild oversteer. In fact it will be the opposite as less delfection will lead into to more toe in under roll. In fact the latest thing I do on race B13's is to incline the strut rearwards to reduce this tendency.
