My complete VR-4 suspension rebuild thread

[Streamln1]

right on. I have literally stripped almost everything off the car at the moment, going to paint within a week or two then its re-assembly with all the nice shiny new parts.

[2fnloud]

that will turn out really nice, would like to do that but with only 30K miles on the car, really not needed.

[Streamln1]

wow 30k? Thats low. This started as just a suspension rebuild, then became a full strip and repaint. I just want to do it once and be done(kinda).

[TurboSinceBirth]

How much did it cost you to have the rear subframe powdercoated? I'm trying to get a ball park figure. Here in the next few months I'll be doing a 5-speed swap and also restoring quite a few things underneath. I only have the aluminum rear subframe bushings and the eBay kit for part of the rear you posted so I'm still hoping to source all the bushings for the front maybe from GZP, the rest of the suspension I need, and the rear diff. Sadly, I'll probably have over $1k in bushings alone for the whole car. It's going to get expensive but I definitely want to get it done.

[Streamln1]

It cost me 200.

[Streamln1]

its money well spent tho. I can't tell u how many of my rubber bushings were shot. And I only have 115k on the car. Just time + rubber doesn't mix.

[Rakuny]

the rear sub-frame alone cost 200? wow.. I paid 200 for the rear sub-frame and the 4 front sub-frame pieces.. sandblasted and coated.

[Streamln1]

Thats a good deal.

[Streamln1]

Well, I finally have done it, I have sourced a replacement for every bushing for the front LCR's without breaking the bank, and that covers every bushing in the car now. I will post up some pictures once I get them in my hands. The front LCR larger pivot bushing took me the longest to research, but I found one in a pretty obvious place I had looked before, it needs to be cut down a little to make work, but its a good replacement for stock.

So far where I have gotten all of the parts-

Rear Subframe - Custom Made billet aluminum busings
Rear Swaybar - Energy Suspension
Rear Diff Mounts - Energy Suspension
Front Subframe - Ground Zero
Front LCR Big busihng (bracket piece) - Summit Machine
Front LCR - Smaller bushing - Buck Waller (PM me for contact info)
Front LCR - Bracket mount - Energy Suspension

[Streamln1]

Custom / Energy suspension diff bushings. I milled down the flange to fully seat in the bushings