a few months ago i replaced all my front bushings with the polyurethane kit from energy suspension. i finally got around to dropping my rear suspension today, and now i'm a little overwhelmed.

the only rear bushings supplied in the ES kit are for the lower control arm and shock mount. a little bit of research on here taught me that prothane makes the rest of them, but i'm not very familiar with all the names of the parts. so my question is, if i buy every single rear bushing prothane makes, will that be enough to replace all 20+ bushings in the whole rear suspension? if someone can just answer that question, i'll figure out what i need to buy, but if i'm starting down the wrong path, i'd like to know.

i'm also assuming that if i choose to upgrade to rear discs down the road, all of these bushings will be reusable... correct? thanks.

 

I recently did the same rear bushing swap after much discussion with fellow road racers as to what performs the best. In the rear, I did Mugen RTA bushings, ES sway bar bushings, and everything else in Prothane. I did the Prothane lower control arm bushings, upper control arm bushings, and compensator bushings. That covers the majority of the rear. My car is an '88 with rear drums and I don't intend to ever swap them, but I believe the same bushings would be used as Prothane only lists one part number for the 88-95 Civic/CRX.

FYI, I got mine here: http://www.suspension.com/prothane-civic.htm

...and they took very good care of me. Let me suggest that you do the rear disc swap at the same time as the bushings just so you don't have to press them in and out multiple times. If I were you (*cough* I wouldn't swap them *cough*) I would order the Prothane bushings and wait to install them onto your new rear discs to make it one easy install.

 

thanks for the reply, that helped a lot. does anybody make stabilizer bar linkage bushings? ES has the sway bar frame bushings, but i can't find anything for the linkage.

 

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