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Post Mon Jun 29, 2015 6:16 pm

hi all
ive been getting a horrendous knocking from my rear suspension lately so ive decided to do an overhaul. ive gone for oem rubber for the subframe, trailing arms and shock mounts. ive been looking at the ireland engineering rear arb at 22mm with poly bush kit. my question is would doing the rear up affect my front end atall since itll be running 22mm in the back and 20mm in the front..might be a silly question but im a newbie so forgive me!!

also ive been thinking it might be easier to get another rear bean do the bushes and then just swap them over so no burning or yanking of anything?
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Post Mon Jun 29, 2015 6:30 pm

Running that much rear bar will make the car tail happy, especially in the wet.

You could counter that by mounting the front bar to the strut housings like the M3 instead of the wishbones.
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