Richard Good's products are well thought out as is everything that I've seen
of his engineering approach to his specialty items. My problems are not
associated with any products from Richard. I wish that I had purchased his
bushings.
JVV
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Munson" <fasttrs@mindspring.com>
To: "'Randall'" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>; "'FOT'" <fot@autox.team.net>;
"'Triumphs'" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 11:15 AM
Subject: RE: Rear Trailing arm bushes IRS cars
> Chip Collingwood at UK Motorsports in Virginia has some of the best
quality
> urethane bushings I have seen. They come in three different hardnesses.
>
> For the rear trailing arm bushings on my street(5 years) and race cars I
use
> the Richard Goode nylatron kits. They are very well engineered and if
> installed correctly only slightly change the ride quality. For the better
in
> my opinion.
>
> Mike
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net] On Behalf
> Of Randall
> Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 12:41 AM
> To: 'FOT'; 'Triumphs'
> Subject: RE: Rear Trailing arm bushes IRS cars
>
> > When things calm down this winter I'm going to experiment with casting
> > bushings for my street Spitfire out of the compound we use at work. It
> > comes as a two part like an epoxy and comparable in hardness to the
butyl
> > rubber bushings. All I need to do is form up a mold on the mill and I'm
> > set.
>
> Might be worth noting, in case anyone else wants to try this, that the
> castable
> polyurethane comes in many different hardnesses as well. As I recall,
there
> were formulas from 40 shore (which is about the same as the EPDM 'rubber'
> bushings) to over 90 shore, which is very hard, almost like wood.
>
> Randall
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