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350 Evo has a Polyurethane bushing kit for the Z.
Adrew Rubio's team claims that when these bushings were installed in thier car, it eliminated wheel hop.
Adrew Rubio's team claims that when these bushings were installed in thier car, it eliminated wheel hop.
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well to add my .02 when i need to heat the tires up to run (im on stockies) i rev up and dump the clutch in second ... no wheel hop.... at all... in 30 degree weather at that nice smooth burnout... but you cant launch in second so who has the bushings??
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Originally Posted by Jax350z
350 Evo has a Polyurethane bushing kit for the Z.
Adrew Rubio's team claims that when these bushings were installed in thier car, it eliminated wheel hop.
Adrew Rubio's team claims that when these bushings were installed in thier car, it eliminated wheel hop.
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Originally Posted by Road Warrior
i don't see the bushing kit on the 350evo website....who/where is the contact for this kit?
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Hello,can someone explain me what is exactly WHEEL HOP (i've been searching in the dictionary for traduction)
When i start hard from a dead stop (1st gear) there's a grinding sound / bad,loud vibration from the engine; and sometimes around 3rpm when it's raining a lot. Is that wheel hop? Thanks
When i start hard from a dead stop (1st gear) there's a grinding sound / bad,loud vibration from the engine; and sometimes around 3rpm when it's raining a lot. Is that wheel hop? Thanks
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Hmm, how about people with aftermarket LSD? I'm no expert on those stuff so I can't go into mechanical details but at least I heard that they do help when launching.. (biggest benefit should be better cornering exit.) Would aftermarket LSD help out eliminating wheel hop? Does any of you guys with Nismo, Kaaz, or Cusco LSD experience wheel hop launching hard at 1st?
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The 300zx had the same problem and it was supposed to be fixed on the 350z according to some information I read. Sports Compact Car has a project 300zx (and a 350z), once they replaced the bushings with spherical bearings like the 350EVO ones all wheel hop went away. But the sperical bearings do transfer more road noise etc.
http://www.sportcompactcarweb.com/pr...c_project300z/
http://www.sportcompactcarweb.com/pr...c_project300z/
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Originally Posted by froggy
Hello,can someone explain me what is exactly WHEEL HOP (i've been searching in the dictionary for traduction)
When i start hard from a dead stop (1st gear) there's a grinding sound / bad,loud vibration from the engine; and sometimes around 3rpm when it's raining a lot. Is that wheel hop? Thanks
When i start hard from a dead stop (1st gear) there's a grinding sound / bad,loud vibration from the engine; and sometimes around 3rpm when it's raining a lot. Is that wheel hop? Thanks
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anyways, wheel hop has nothing to do with the motor...its all about traction and keeping the wheels to the ground
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Originally Posted by mchapman
The 300zx had the same problem and it was supposed to be fixed on the 350z according to some information I read. Sports Compact Car has a project 300zx (and a 350z), once they replaced the bushings with spherical bearings like the 350EVO ones all wheel hop went away. But the sperical bearings do transfer more road noise etc.
http://www.sportcompactcarweb.com/pr...c_project300z/
http://www.sportcompactcarweb.com/pr...c_project300z/
where exactly do these spherical bearings go???
also, those 350evo bearings don't look polyurathane to me....somebody mentioned earlier about a polyurathane bushing kit and i am wondering if this was what they meant instead
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Originally Posted by 350G
Hmmm . . . . Both of us (me and my tuner) run 19s without wheel hop . . . Does anyone with 19s on their Z experience wheel hop? Just trying to narrow down the variables.
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OH YEAH I DO. I am running 275/19, full tein coil-over (16 way adjustable w/ the edfc)... if the settings are at hard or soft I get massive wheel hop unless I am doing a 20 mph rolling start..
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I was pulling out of a store this morning and got on it and it had some crazy wheel hop and all the sudden the *** end made a loud pop noise and I looked down and it had came out of first gear. The sound didn't come from the rear end itself it was more like the body of the car made the sound. I guess I didn't have it pushed all the way into 1st. Anyone ever had this happen...hope I didn't mess anything up.
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350EVO doesn't make those spherical bearing kits anymore - they just haven't updated their site to reflect that. Actually a lot of their products they don't make anymore like their famous front control A-arms that had spherical bearings for smoother turning
They never made a polyurethane kit for production. They did offer a derlin bushing kit - that they used for racing and is supposivly brutal on the street.
The spherical bearing kit was 6 key bushings - think it was 2 up front and 1 in the rear. Expensive stuff
Nismo makes harder rubber bushings that are just barely noticably stiffer than stock.
solid engine mounts are your friends...so are solid diff mounts
They never made a polyurethane kit for production. They did offer a derlin bushing kit - that they used for racing and is supposivly brutal on the street.
The spherical bearing kit was 6 key bushings - think it was 2 up front and 1 in the rear. Expensive stuff
Nismo makes harder rubber bushings that are just barely noticably stiffer than stock.
solid engine mounts are your friends...so are solid diff mounts
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