I purchased a totaled (in the rear) 95 Civic EX, and spent a week stripping everything of use for my hatch. I will slowly swap parts over, and I want to start with the front sway bar. I know I need to swap the control arm, but with the rubber its old and needs to be replaced.

Question is should I replace with OEM rubber or poly? The car will be street driven and really be just a daily, so I wont be taking it the a track anytime soon. It just hard to not buy upgrades

Next will be the EX brakes.

 

HardRace rubber bushings. Cheaper than OEM, MUCH cheaper than Mugen rubber, and will last way, WAY longer than polyurethane.

 

Even though I work at a dealership the oem bushings are still a little too rich. Websense must own there site, because I can't load hardrace.com

 

www.buyhardrace.com

 

Little strange. On the site you linked to they dont have sway bar mounts (just links). I go to hardrace.com and they have them... $60 for the links I think is too much for what I actually will do with this car.

 

If the money is tight, and the stock ones look okay, I would just use the stock ones, IMHO.

 

you know you don't need to replace the whole control arm. if you look carefully you only need the part that the sway bar bolts to. then the D clamps, pretty sure you can just bolt them up with the EX hardware.