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Old Mar 4, 2008 | 01:08 PM
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recondition the car

I picked up a rx7 and I am looking into making the car like new again. My focus right now is going to be handling, suspension (basically everything under the car)

the car itself is in really good shape but I would like to replace all the bushings, suspension parts, toe links, sway bars etc...with either OEM parts of aftermarket.

Where would I be able to find most of this type of stuff in one shot?

What would you recommend to replace and upgrade?

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James
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Old Mar 4, 2008 | 01:30 PM
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VERY expensive journey... Unless you will go with "eBay" urethane bushings..
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Old Mar 4, 2008 | 01:45 PM
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My main reason for looking into this is I am getting the clunk in the rear end, from research on this forum it has lead me to think it's the power plant frame, rear pillow *****, etc...so while I am in there I though I should look into replacing most of it.
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Old Mar 4, 2008 | 02:15 PM
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Pillow ***** bushings for clunk. I also had to replace tie rods bushings and trailing arms bushings to get rid of play in a back. All together close to $600

I think if you go with OE parts all around (front/back) - it will be $2k+ because front balljoints not serviceable and you need to buy whole arms.
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Old Mar 4, 2008 | 05:05 PM
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How many miles do you have on the car?
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Old Mar 5, 2008 | 10:30 AM
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Roughly 55,000 miles on it right now
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