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11-10-2014, 09:07 AM | #23 |
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No personal experience, but IMO spherical RTABs are a track only application.
They will be extremely harsh for street and will wear quickly.
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11-14-2014, 06:11 PM | #24 |
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I was on the fence about getting the spherical but am happy so far. The BW
ones are pretty trick. No noticeable nvh increase that I notice. Just a much more stable rear end. The bearing itself is a stock BMW sealed rear ball joint in a trick housing. I'm sure I'll get decent life out of them(longer than stock r tabs w/limiters) and then easily/inexpensively replaceable. Probably not for everyone, but very nice on a built canyon carver/track car. |
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Was not aware of these.
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Not only abnormally worn on the shoulder, while still having usable tread left, but with that same sort-of convex cup shape. I never messed with the suspension geometry and had stock shocks and springs. So, yea, that's something like the RTABs coming apart. At the time, I just wrote it off to a weakness in the Yokohamas. Then I blew the head gasket, so never got to the bottom of it.
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For the front, I listened to inTgr8r (thanks!) and ordered the superflex poly bushings. They must be somewhere over the atlantic ocean by now! Thanks to all for the good discussion. I'll update when installed. |
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Will be interested in your feedback on the BW RTABs when you get them.
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11-16-2014, 09:02 AM | #31 |
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Yes.
http://store.bimmerworld.com/bimmerw...px?Thread=True Spherical is really the ideal setup for the RTAB because of the arc of suspension travel as well as the rotational axis of movement. This looks very promising.
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11-16-2014, 02:31 PM | #33 | |
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