So I figured out a plan for my suspension overhaul. Major reason being safety and the current suspension on my FD is very worn out. Would be a terrible idea to invest time and money into the car and not do the most essential thing, especially since it's an FD. Just bought Ohlin DFV's from SBG, 6 OEM pillow ball bushings with 12 dust covers and am working on making a plan to buy SuperPro Bushings from J-Auto and OEM MazdaSpeed for the spherical bushings.

I found the rear lower control arm inner bushings (would need to buy 2, right) and 2 lower control arm inner bushing stoppers on AtkinsRotary and hope they have it in stock (or could try with MazdaTrix, but it seems they don't have the stoppers even listed.

https://www.atkinsrotary.com/store/9...28-28-460.html

https://www.atkinsrotary.com/store/9...01-28-461.html


Would prefer to get the upgraded stiffer MazdaComp piece for this rather than regret getting just the normal OEM ones unless someone can convince me otherwise. Would have been really nice to have MazdaComp membership right now to get that discount a lot of members get, if anyone has a hookup, would greatly appreciate an order for these. Posting just to get feedback on this and make sure I am ordering everything I need to change all the bushings in one go.

 

My overview and price estimates. In purchased from Amayama, the difference in price between comp and regular is just a few hundred bucks:


(ignore the "NOK" and VAT numbers. Since i dont live in the US, i gotta pay import tax on everyting)

 

Edit-

This diagram helped a lot.

I did a search and saw this post quoted below as well. May just get the full SuperPro Kit and just buy two of these:
RLCA - Inner (F128-28-460):
https://www.atkinsrotary.com/store/9...28-28-460.html

And 2 of these:
RLCA - Inner Stopper (FD01-28-461):
https://www.atkinsrotary.com/store/S...01-28-461.html

This seems like a better plan rather than what I originally typed up in my first post.


Edit # 2 - It looks like MazdaComp/Mazda Motorsports website allowed me to register, and I can order this part without having have been in races because it's a MazdaComp Part. Amazing.

Less than half the price and I got the last 2 in stock I think.

 

yes, there are like 3 levels, the easy one, is that you can buy competition parts only. since the dealership can't get competition parts you're not competing and everyone is cool.
level 2 is where you build a race car and can order anything for that car. in theory this competes with the dealerships, which the dealers don't like (if you paid to be a dealer you wouldn't either)
and then the next one is like you are a shop and i'm a little hazy on that, its kind of new

oh and for F128-28-460 they have 28 more

 

Awesome, that’s great info to know. Do you know if I need the stoppers?

Also any feedback from folks about the SuperPro combined with the Comp RLCA Inner bushings would be appreciated if anyone is specifically running this setup and has tried full OEM in the past. A perspective on the difference would be cool.

 

usually not, but they are cheap $10.50 msrp