Drewpy Dawg
15+ Year Contributor
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- May 18, 2008
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Sachse,
Texas
I recently re-installed a freshly restored front subframe in my 1G. I replaced the OE rubber bushings with Energy Suspension poly bushings and re-used the original lower washers. Then I watched Jafro's new video about installing his restored subframe and realized that the Energy Suspension bushings are supposed to have washers on top (between the subframe and the body) as well. The OE bushings don't use them. Now I have the dilemma of whether or not to drop my subframe out of the car again to install those washers. Are they really necessary? It seems not since the OE bushings do not use them. I would think they help make the bushings even more rigid but possibly at the cost of increased vibration. I'm not looking to make this a stiff as possible race car, so I'd be ok losing a small amount of rigidity in favor of slightly less vibration, but I want to make sure there is not an important engineering reason for those washers that I'm overlooking.
