polybush or not?

polybush or not?

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maxclark91

Original Poster:

60 posts

107 months

Wednesday 12th August 2015
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I'm in the process of rebuild a mk1 tuscan chassis and powder coating all the arms in which I need to remove all the bushes. Should I go for the polybush kit from tvrparts or someone else or stay standard? Will the ride become very hard too? Advise please

S6 Devil

3,556 posts

232 months

Wednesday 12th August 2015
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I went polybush but not the black Powerflex ones as they are too hard. I went for the orange ones from TVR Parts. The ride feels great. I did the diff in the purple Powerflex.

m4tti

5,426 posts

154 months

Wednesday 12th August 2015
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I recently spoke to powerflex and nearly all of the bushes in the tvr kit they supply are from the black series apart from a couple used on the roll bars.

I'm probably going to go for the powerflex black bush kit. At the end of the day if the ride is hard after polybushing then there's something wrong with the damping.

Andy_mr2sc

1,223 posts

175 months

Wednesday 12th August 2015
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+1 on that Matt. I've just written the very same comment on the 'stability' thread. Just to reiterate I've just made my own bushes from acetal with stainless sleeves (grooved for grease retention) and the ride is smoother, less crashy and more precise than ever. There is no extra NVH and I've backed the dampers off one click with no derogatory effect on grip.

maxclark91

Original Poster:

60 posts

107 months

Wednesday 12th August 2015
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I've been really happy with the ride in mine as it was though so I am tempted to stay original

davidsc

325 posts

151 months

Thursday 13th August 2015
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I replaced with originals under advise that polybush were too hard.

The ride is now less crashy than with the original bushes that felt like solid metal.

portzi

2,296 posts

174 months

Thursday 13th August 2015
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The originals are an old out of date bush. If you look on all the other marques of cars they are going over to poly bush so why are some TVR drivers fitting old specification bushes unless they are trying to keep its originality?

S6 Devil

3,556 posts

232 months

Thursday 13th August 2015
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portzi said:
The originals are an old out of date bush. If you look on all the other marques of cars they are going over to poly bush so why are some TVR drivers fitting old specification bushes unless they are trying to keep its originality?
I got so many different opinions when researching this. The above statement sums up the reason for my decision to go polybush. Glad that I did!