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Hi guys,

Looking at sharpening up the suspension/chassis on my r33. At the moment the car has aftermarket shocks and springs that have made the car a little lower and firmer. I'm looking at getting some swaybars to assist with cornering, but ultimately I want the car to feel a little firmer and more responsive on the street. Can anyone give me any advice? I've heard bushes might help, but not knowing anything about suspension, this is pretty vague advice...i mean, there are so many 'bushes' out there, which ones should I be looking for? Also, can anyone give any advice re: cost?

Thanks people.

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Mainly a street car? throw a whiteline catalogue at it.

Front radius rod, front Upper control arms, rear upper control arm can all be adjustable. bursons should do a fair bit below RRP.

then look at ball joints, steering rack bushes, diff bushes, LCA bushes, rear radius rod bushes/traction rod.(noltec/whiteline make an adjustable replacement). Whiteline make replacement subrame bushes as well as the "pineapple" kit for anti squat.

If its a track car, start here http://www.cazmanindustries.com but I personally would request Aurora spherical bearings if he isn't already using them, from the little research I did they seem to be one of the better ones, and when in a thread he did mention them as an option, not sure if they were used in production or not.

Spherical bearings do feel better, but the amount of KM's you do per year on our rather average roads will dictate whether you want to fit them or not.

Cazman rear lower control arm kits look nice...

Being an SAU-Vic member there is a rather well regarded suspension shop listed in the members discount sub-forum that you might want to try out, they are listed as giving a discount on parts, and most bushes will need to be pressed in, so may aswell get them to do it and align it unless you want to pull the arms out, take them all up to a local shop, get the bushes pressed in, take home, fit, drive to an alignment place etc.

Apart from that, a cage will stiffen it up :dry: I certainly noticed a difference after removing mine! But my Stagea did feel significantly better after doing the majority of the above.

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