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SiH 07-09-08 06:46 AM

Aftermarket Toe and Trailing Arm link durability?
 
Afternoon all :)
My car currently has generic aftermarket toe and traction arm links - the pillowballs have gone in most of them and I'd prefer to start afresh with a known quantity, so I'm looking at aftermarket toe and trailing arms.
However, I know from experience that i don't want arms with cheap joints, so I'm trying to find a set that are durable and usable on a road car.

I know a fair few use the Fighter's Garage ones - has anyone had these for an extended period of time? If so, how have the berings fared? what do you think of the quality? I can't find anything on ere with reports of durability.
The otehr ones I'm loking at are the SuperNow ones, but there's very little information about them - anyone use them?

The car is a weekend car, but i don't want to have to be spending hundreds every year or so to replace bearings and/or arms.
Cheers in advance
Si

dradon03 07-09-08 11:49 AM

The Fighters garage are the way to go just because of the dust seals on the pillowball's that certain others lack.

Sarusanj 07-09-08 12:32 PM

Hopefully. I just ordered some Fighter's Garage arms. :)

rc80 07-09-08 12:44 PM

I have had the Fighter's Garage setup for a year I would bet.
No problems yet, but I haven't put many miles on them (less than 3k).

Rich

ArmitageGVR4 07-09-08 04:12 PM

I've put about 5k miles on my Fighter's Garage links but most of those miles have been either going to/from or driving flat-out on the track. There's already a lot of slop in the toe links and I'm thinking about replacing them with OEM. I've had nothing but frustration with these toe links/trailing arms.

SiH 07-09-08 04:21 PM


Originally Posted by ArmitageGVR4 (Post 8359894)
I've put about 5k miles on my Fighter's Garage links but most of those miles have been either going to/from or driving flat-out on the track. There's already a lot of slop in the toe links and I'm thinking about replacing them with OEM. I've had nothing but frustration with these toe links/trailing arms.

Se, that's what I'm worried about - the FD is a weekend and track car and I don't want to be having to replace expensive rose joints every thousand miles :(
I'm trying to decide whether it's worth thhe slight trade off in performance to go back to stock arms.

Good to hear from others with good experiences though :)
The problem is I've had pillowball arms before, and be they Cusco or eBay specials, all have worn prematurely :( A friend has a set with very high quality sealed and booted joints, that he cleans every few hundred miles and looks after liek his own children, and they've still developed slop after 3k miles :(


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