Psi-Fi Traction Bushings *Non-56K Safe*

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Psi-Fi Traction Bushings *Non-56K Safe*

Post by Diablo0 » Sat Dec 04, 2004 7:25 pm

Psi-Fi Tracton Bushings

Price: $275.00
Website: http://www.psifimotorsports.com/bushings.htm
Install Instructions: http://www.psifimotorsports.com/instruc ... shings.pdf

Review:

These bushings are amazing, from the time I took them out of the box I knew I would be impressed with them. The build quality is top-notch!

First impresses as you can tell are great, crusing down the road you can't really tell they are installed in replace of the stock bushings. The only noticable difference is that small bumps are more easily felt since these are solid replacements and dont' absorb vibrations.

Cornering is great, the stearing is easier and more responsive. Through turns the car isn't as bouncy, weight transfer is much smoother.

As for wheel hop, I didn't get a good chance to really launch the car hard but as I pulled away from the house after installing and I gave it a tad to much gas and scared the neighbors. From what I noticed from that experience the wheel hop is gone. This doesn't mean that you can go buy these, install them, and wheel hop will be completely gone, you must still have some good still motor mounts as those control the flexing of the motor where these control tire deflection.

This kit was not ment for stock suspension, if you install these on a non-lowered car there will be a clunking noise from the control arms hitting the sub frame of the car. Unlike on the stock bushings that didn't let that happen because of their restrictive movement.

All in all I give these :thumbright: :thumbright:

Also, for the install, I purchased a 1-Ton arbor press from a local store called Harbor Freight Tools ( www.harborfreight.com ). With that press I could easily press out the stock bushings and press in the Psi-Fi kit. It'll just take some creativity setting up the press on the control arms to get the stock bushings in. But it can be done without taking it somewhere.

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Post by Diablo0 » Tue Dec 21, 2004 4:00 pm

Update:

After almost 2.5 weeks having these installed I've found a problem with the kit. The rear bushing (the big ones with screws) work fine however the front bushing is the problem. On the front bushing you can't tighten the bolt up that goes through it since if you apply to much pressure to the sides of the bushing you cause it to bind up putting a lot of strain on the weld. In one case someone on SRTforums.com did tighten up the bolt to far putting a lot of stress on the weld. When driving they hit the brakes hard to stop and the weld broke. As you can imagine that wouldn't be that fun to have your control arm break as you're trying to stop. Thats the reason to keep that bolt somewhat loose.

The problem with keeping the bolt loose is that the bolt shifts around in the hole on the frame of the car. When it shifts around the control arm moves and when that moves it changes the toe angle of the wheel causing the car to pull left or right under acceleration (even with just a slight amount of gas the car will pull). Might not sound like much but the car would pull enough for me to change lanes without moving the steering wheel. It really becomes scary when you're in traffic and the car is moving back and forth in your lane and you're trying to keep it under control so you don't sideswipe someone.

I've tried to tighten the bolt down more and it would get rid of it for about 30 miles but then the bolt would start moving again and I'm right back to where I started from. Plus now I have a creak noise coming from the front of the car that I'm not sure what's causing it since it doesn't happen all the time.

In the end the design for the front bushing wasn't well thought out and the only to fix it easily is for a different designed front bushing that can have some torque applied to it to keep the bolt from moving.

I have come up with one fix for the problem and will post it when I confirm that it works.
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Post by Stonebender » Tue Feb 01, 2005 8:07 am

Replace with Prothane?

That sounds like a good fix.

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Post by z3roneo » Tue Feb 01, 2005 5:09 pm

Thanxs for the info cuz I was think bout getting the set...
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Post by Diablo0 » Tue Feb 01, 2005 8:07 pm

I have my possible fix ready to be installed but with working 12+ hours a day I haven't gotten around to installing them yet.

Mark at PSI just e-mailed me after seeing this thread and is going to see if there is another fix to my problem other than the one I thought up which was buying the Rage-Tek front bushings. I shall let everyone know what I find out, it could just be my car since he hasn't heard of this problem anywhere else.
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Post by z3roneo » Tue Feb 01, 2005 8:27 pm

Coo. Keep us informed...
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Post by Casketbearer » Wed Feb 02, 2005 7:33 pm

Try Loctite?

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Post by Diablo0 » Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:14 pm

Yup, tried it... didn't work.
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Post by sxt » Tue Feb 15, 2005 4:34 pm

Did you try putting a locking nut on the end.

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Post by Diablo0 » Tue Feb 15, 2005 5:07 pm

sxt wrote:Did you try putting a locking nut on the end.
The stock nut is a locking nut. 8)
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Post by Diablo0 » Sat Apr 09, 2005 9:43 pm

Ok, here's an update.

I finally got around to installing the RageTek bushings and I can say... for a Neon, at this point,, the RageTek bushings are much better than the PSI-FI. With the RageTek bushings you can torque the bolt down so there is no movement around the bolt. The control arm actually moves around the bushing and the bushing stays stationary.

At this point... right now the RageTek bushings for a Neon are the better bet. The control arm bolts seem to be a slightly different size between the SRT and Neon which explains the shifting I had with the PSI-FI kit.
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Post by Stonebender » Mon Apr 11, 2005 5:34 am

Sounds safe. :thumbright:

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Post by 05srt4clone » Sat Dec 03, 2005 12:10 pm

What are the price difference on both sets?
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Post by Diablo0 » Sat Dec 03, 2005 2:09 pm

About the same last I checked.
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