Sulastic Springs

FishOnOne wrote:

Turtle n Peeps wrote:

carringb wrote:

Turtle n Peeps wrote:
I personally would never put these things on my truck. I don't want the feeling of a wallowing whale when I drive. Too big of a trade-off for "me".

When we would circle track race the rules would not allow solid bushings in the spring eyes and A arm ends. So to get rid of the bloated whale feeling we would drive a handful of 8 penny nails into the bushings. :B Man did that help things! Set several track records with that setup. :B

They do not cause any wallowing. At all.

Sorry, but ANY rubber mount flexes. Anytime you have flex you have wallow. There's a reason performance application use metal or Delrin in bushings or mounts.

Can you quantity how much wallow?

Nope, other than to say the more load you have the worse it gets. Had a coil wish bone half ton once and if you put a 1/2 a cord of wet wood in the back it was ugly. A leaf spring of the same year would handle WAY better because they didn't have a ton of rubber in the wish bone bushings. Ever hear of the G body shuffle? Some of that is because of all the rubber they have in the control arms.

Also the longer you stretch things out the worse it gets. Long shackles and stuff like that are bad.

Do what you want. "I" would never run these things on my truck. But then again, I don't have to, I have a Chevy with IFS. :B