Bushings fab?

[Acet]

Honestly I spent like half as much as buying them from the retailers just by browsing the FS section and grabbing bushings as they popped up. Brand new IE TABS for a good amount off retail, gently used AKG 75D CABs for like 30 bucks shipped, I got e28 motor mounts for around 65 shipped new for the pair from pelican parts which doesn't apply to you, but retail on m42 mounts is like $100+ each. The only part I put on my car that wasn't brand new was the CABs and those pretty much never wear and are easy to remove without damaging them. I'd say doing that is a hell of a lot easier than trying to make your own. Bolt through tranny mounts will vibrate like fuck and your m10 definitely doesn't need them. CABs and the diff bushing should be fairly straightforward to make, TABs and subframe bushings would be a bit harder because they're slotted and such. But don't copy someone else's R&D, that's like 80% of what you're paying for.

Maybe thats an good route to take! I didnt really think about shopping for used parts as thats something I never really do.

I just honestly didnt think it was a big deal to get those dimensions. After all, they measured something to fab their own at some point in life also, right? At least for reference. So why go redo the work that has already been professionally done? Unfortunately though, some members here are apparently very butthurt about my opinion and needlessly use language thats not really needed.

So with that said I am open to different views such as yours or others who chose to pm me instead of participating in this thread, but when someone comes here and acts like a dog, makes me want to go through with returning stuff just out of principal.

perhaps you can give 10toes and toby a lesson on effective communication ;) because they seriously lack that ishhhh.

[TobyB]

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