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Long shot since they're long discontinued but before I remove the bushings from my JIC arms and replace them with whiteline adjustables...

If you upgraded to gktech fucas sell me your noltecs before you bin them 🙈

well, just be aware on of the reasons they are not available (apart from noltec going broke...) is that they weren't that great. Very hard to adjust on the car and the locking bolts were known to slip at times

20 minutes ago, Duncan said:

well, just be aware on of the reasons they are not available (apart from noltec going broke...) is that they weren't that great. Very hard to adjust on the car and the locking bolts were known to slip at times

Yeah but there aren't that many short or adjustable arms that aren't using bearings (which I explicitly don't want)

 

Also I have nismo brackets so the bushings last longer.

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I don't want to get your WTB off track, but the other option to keep bushes is to shorten the upper arms, Just Jap used to have a jig for that

8 minutes ago, Duncan said:

I don't want to get your WTB off track, but the other option to keep bushes is to shorten the upper arms, Just Jap used to have a jig for that

I did, I have the jic -10mm arms which are 170mm fixed (no adjustment)

I might shove whiteline bushings in them to get the adjustment if I can't find noltecs. Not totally sure they will fit though.

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Yeah we run standard arms with superpro adjustable at each in the race car due to rule restrictions. They do flog out due to the geometry issue once you add caster, we just treat them as a regular maintenance item

4 minutes ago, Duncan said:

Yeah we run standard arms with superpro adjustable at each in the race car due to rule restrictions. They do flog out due to the geometry issue once you add caster, we just treat them as a regular maintenance item

That's why I have the nismo brackets, and the offset on the jic arms is also different from stock (closer to Cusco version)

But they are fixed length which sucks.

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I swear at my GKTech ones every time I have to take them apart and replace a spherical.

But I wouldn't swap them for anything else. They absolutely slay every other option, at least in terms of how they actually work.

You sure you don't want to live with bearings? I mean, they don't have "ball bearings". They are rod ends and sphericals throughout. Tough as nuts, even though I have found more than one way to wear them out.

I have offset Nismo brackets so the fact the gktechs can pivot is less important to me. I have 170mm JIC arms with bushings - but they provide no adjustment and I'm not sure whiteline eccentric bushings will fit them (I don't want to ruin the bushings currently in them to find out). Ideally I want something with bushings + adjustment; hence why I'd like to find a pair of these. Unfortunately they aren't easy to find.

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I'm firmly on the "zero compliance is good compliance" for FUCAs. I'd be looking to solid metal joints even if the primary reason for having them is because they facilitate the twist in the arm. I have never been more happy with the way the front suspension behaves than I have since I got rid of the FUCA bushes. Even the thin little (short lived) poly bushes in the Whiteline adjustables have too much compliance for my liking.

It probably won't be long before I have sphericals nearly everywhere, probably including both top and bottom arms in the rear, and I'll start complaining about the increased costs for dental work. But I will be enjoying the driving more, I'm sure.

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