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    Dropping front subframe, what bushings?

    Dropping my subframe this month to swap motors,what brand and style bushings should I pick up? Primarily street with 10-15 autocross days a year. H&R/bilstein sports.

    Currently trying to decide between IE and OEM sort of setups, also which bishings do I need? I can leave easy to access bits for later, I'm most concerned immediately about the hard to reach ones.
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    What bushings were you planning to replace? There are only the swaybar and control arm mount bushings.

    For the swaybar OEM is fine and cheap and for the control arm bushings stock E30M3 is highly recommended.
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      The OE sway bar bushings and engine mounts would fine for how you are using the car. Though I would use the solid M3 offset control arm bushings and AKG 75d poly motor and transmission mounts.
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        Thanks for the input. I'm effectively trying to do as much as I can as a "while I'm in there" sort of deal. I am not targetting any specific bushings and am trying to find a balance on the knife edge between handling and comfort, with a slight preference to handling. What do the offset control arm bushings accomplish? One of the things that bothers me is when I was on the track last year I was having a large amount of issues managing understeer, the car did not feel planted and seemed to plow into the corners with a bit of a.... Waviness to the hard turning. The steering felt like it was wandering.

        Shoes were 205/50-15 Falken Azeni rt-215 and car was on the H&R/billies but an otherwise stock 84 325e. This year I have quite a few changes including the upcoming m20b25 w/stock rebuild and lightened flywheel, 3.73lsd, e36 325i rack, and I have shifted weight back by removing A/C but added equal weight in daily comfort things to interior
        1990 332i, 4 door
        2008 KTM 990 Superduke
        2018 Golf R, 6spd manual (Pending delivery)
        2017 Mazda CX-5 GT
        2007 Z4M Coupe - Sold to very nice people

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