Polybushs

[Jonbouy]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TVR-CERBERA-POWERFLEX-FR...

Has anyone tried these? cant find a complete kit as Steve Heaths website is no longer active

[Supateg]

The only bush I would use in that set is the anti roll bar bush. By fitting the others I feel is a backward step, as the original bushes are very good.
In comparison to a normal road car the amount of rubber between the sleeve is half on a Cerb bush.

With the exception of diff & ARB bushes. I would not use them on a cerb.

[Jonbouy]

Cheers supateg, I was debating about using the originals, who's the best supplier of the original bushes in your opinion

[Supateg]

I'm not much help with that question. I got my drag link bushes from RG. As far as I can tell it's only the usual TVR suppliers that stock them. There not cheap either!
How sure you have knackered ones? Have you inspected them yet?

[scotty_d]

I use Polly bushes in some of my cerbera, as said ARB, Diff ect. My experience with my old Chim that had full Polly bushed made it that extra bit harsh, on poor roads it spoiled the ride on anything but motorway/ track use. I have kept with rubber apart from the rear upper wishbone bush's where the long shocker bolt goes through as they are guilty of wear and seems to be a bit of a stress point.

[Ireland]

I fitted Powerflex bushings everywhere on my car and I have to disagree with the above and say they transformed the handling of my car and were a major improvement over the original ones.

Fair enough the originals are fine if you're on a good smooth road surface but I found the Powerflex ones made it far better on uneven surfaces.

The car became a lot less twitchy and I didn't notice any additional issues with the ride quality after fitting them.

The Powerflex bushings can easily withstand as much abuse as the originals, probably more, and they do not deform like the originals.

I've given mine plenty of abuse on bad backroads and on the track, including a major oops moment where I did a full 360 when I lost the back end at 115 MPH , and they stood up to that (I did have a clunking sound and thought I'd destroyed the rear diff bush but it turned out to be the bracket that had broken, the bush was fine) and I've easily put over 20,000 miles on the car since I fitted them.

[Jonbouy]

Thanks for the advice

I am in process of stripping the car back to the chassis with hopefully some help off you guys on here, the bushes are not particularly bad, I just thought whilst I had everything stripped and powder coated I would change them. I found that I had two cracked lower wishbones last night.

Jon