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So dropped a wheel the other week but lets not go into that.

Need to find out some prices for some adjustable rear camber arms for my series 2 manual Stagea

getting quoted $340 for a pair of Kazama Rear camber arms

and

My front outer bushes for my front are worn??? apparently these cost 170??

um

what do i do. i would rather get a pair of cusco's for the rear and not sure about the bushes for the front, if anyone could help me please

Thanks

Well, given that Skylines and Stageas are known to be hard on their front upper bushes, you'd have to say it was reasonable to replace them if someone says that they're worn.

The rest of your question doesn't make much sense. Wanna rephrase?

Edited by GTSBoy

Do you really need adjustable rear camber arms, how much camber adjustment do you need? You can get roughly 1.5 degrees with bushes on the rear with x2 kits (I realise a couple of camber kits cost more than the huge amount of pillow ball arms out there these days) but you don't have to worry about the bearings wearing out and knocking around. As for the front you might as well get ofset poly bushes for the front control arm outers (fulcrum do inners as well), at least you'll have some front camber adjustment. My RS4 sits roughly 340mm front and 330mm rear and I was able to get enough correction with inner and outer front control arm ofset bushes and inner and outer ofset bushes on the rear camber and traction arms. I previously had all pillow ball adjustable arms on the car and went back to bushes because I got sick of them wearing out and the maintainence on them. I did keep my front castor rods though as the ofset bushes don't give enough +ve castor for my liking and I'm not forking out $500+ for Ikeya Formula bushed castor rods. Whiteline do make bushed adjustable camber and traction arm but they're not cheap either. Also I ended up having to get adjustable rear toe rods (non hicas) as I ran out of toe adjustment on the rear. I got NeoTec ones from NZ and they are one of the best looking arms I used/seen yet and the prices were good too. $160 shipped. But seeing as yours is a manual stagea you should have hicas so you might have enough adjustment in the rear toe rods.

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