SPL Upper Control Arms. The First

Sh0velMan · 10-23-2013, 01:39 PM

Yeah my Kinetix arms have some drag, probably more than any of these fancy pants arms with sphericals, but nothing like the soft rubber bind on the stock ones. the crazy part is, every bushing on the car binds just like that!

DR_ · 10-25-2013, 09:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Sh0velMan

Yeah my Kinetix arms have some drag, probably more than any of these fancy pants arms with sphericals, but nothing like the soft rubber bind on the stock ones. the crazy part is, every bushing on the car binds just like that!

Have you greased them up? My Kinetix arms must have been pretty dry when I got them as they started squeaking in less than a month on the car. I pulled them off and cleaned all the original grease out and put my zerk grease gun on them and used that to put good Mobil 1 grease back in. Now no squeak and they don't drag.

Sh0velMan · 10-25-2013, 09:23 AM

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Originally Posted by DR_

Have you greased them up? My Kinetix arms must have been pretty dry when I got them as they started squeaking in less than a month on the car. I pulled them off and cleaned all the original grease out and put my zerk grease gun on them and used that to put good Mobil 1 grease back in. Now no squeak and they don't drag.

They don't squeak since I re-greased them, but there is some drag.

It's not real bad, if you hold the arm all the way up and let go, it slowly swings to the bottom, rather than falling like a rock like these sphericals will.

martin82 · 10-23-2013, 06:38 PM

i've got all those too down to subframe etc, great upgrade!

mprog · 10-24-2013, 11:12 PM

How big of an NVH hit have you guys experienced moving to spherical bearing bushings? (Especially g37 owners, since I'm one too!).

BGTV8 · 10-30-2013, 04:00 PM

Mine are installed ... what a difference !!!!

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