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MG MGF Technical - rubber or solid subframe mounts?

Hi,

my 1997 F starts to feel "wobbly" when accellerating in low gears, and when braking hard (bad experience today when braking from 200km/h).

Given the age of the car I suspect the subframe mounts are gone (they are still the original black ones). The car is lowered using nuckles, has koni-dampers and the rear outer tie bar poly-bushes.
Tracking was last checked last year and may as well be a bit out, but I'll only fix this once the subframe mounts are changed.

Now the choice is between Mikes solid mounts, and original "green splashed" rubber mounts. The solid ones will probably give a more direct handling, but will the ride quality suffer much? I suspect the rubber bushes absorb some vibrations, will this be a problem to the body with solid mounts?

Regards,

Andreas
Andreas H

Andreas,

Mike does Powerflex polyeurethane bushes, i have a set of these and they are excellent. Can also get something similar from Brown and Gammons.

I would reccomend them.

SF
Scarlet Fever

I'll second that

Had Techspeed replace all my bushes for the polyflex type when they put there suspension in... The ride is a little harder but it handles like a different car..

STU
Wokingham
S.C. Dickens

I didn't know there were poly SUBFRAME mounts - all the ones I've got are on the wishbones, anti-roll bar and tie bars...

(I know Mike now has ones for the short links too...)

I thought the only choice for the subframe was as Andreas says: rubber or alloy (a-la Trophy).

Neil.
Neil

Ooops, must have missed that in the original posting.

SF
Scarlet Fever

Go for alloy if you can. They're fractionally more expesnsive, but NVR issues are not at all excessive - at least IMO - bearing in mind we're talking about a sports car! LOL
Rob Bell

By NVR I think you mean NVH Noise Vibration and Harshness
Dave

This thread was discussed between 29/03/2003 and 04/04/2003

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