Anyone using urethane bushings? Do you feel a noticeable difference? Any issue with binding or noise?

Thx,
Erik

 

I'll be ordering a set soon. I drove someone's car with urethane bushings and the car was quick in transitioning and felt solid around corners and it had 180,000 miles and was a 1989 Civic Si.

 

I have poly bushings in my car, and installed a set in ManInCamo's [Civic forum mod] a couple weeks ago. I'll never go back to stock bushings. The car transitions much smoother and quicker. It's kind of hard to describe. With stock bushings, you get a lot of deflection before the suspension actually starts moving, with poly, you get a more positive transmission of cornering forces. Sure, road noise is very marginally increased, and the car usually feels a bit harsher on rough pavement, but from straight line driving to cornering, or in quick corner transitions, the car is so much more reactive [it's quick but not abrupt, if that makes sense] that it feels like a completely new car.