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RE: Rear Trailing arm bushes IRS cars

To: "'FOT'" <fot@autox.team.net>, "'Triumphs'" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: Rear Trailing arm bushes IRS cars
From: "Randall" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 21:41:25 -0700
> 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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