DeDion Bushing Sales

[Warp <WarpOMatic@domain.elided>]

      I don't have an answer but your question reminded me of the oddest
phone order I ever tried to place. I tried to order the SZ bushing and polyurethane
bushings for my GTV6 from IAP. The salesman pretty much refused to sell them
to me!!! He said the DeDion bushing was a major operation to replace, bushings
would make a rough ride etc etc. I explained I had driven a race car set up
to ride hard before, but no dice. He talked me out of everything I tried to order!
I felt so wierd about the whole thing. I did talk him into selling me an Alfa cap.
Guess he figured I could handle that. LOL.
           Mark Manley
 '84 GTV6
 Fiat X1/9 SCCA GP    

Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 20:45:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Richard Welty <rwelty@domain.elided>
Subject: "SZ-style" DeDion bushing in an Alfetta

up until last year, it'd been my opinion that substituting heim joints or
other spherical bearings in SCCA IT suspensions was a highly questionable
practice. i have spent a little time discussing it with Kurt Weiss of the
SCCA Competition board, and he's persuaded me that the Comp board intended
such bearing substitutions to be legal as long as the control arms/other
suspension members and the mounting points are not modified to facilitate
the swap.

therefore, the SZ-style DeDion bushing has suddenly gotten my attention, as
it's evidently a legal IT mod. has anyone gotten it to work in an Alfetta?
IAP's catalog claims it works, but Alfettas generally require a different
bushing there from the GTV-6/Milano.

i'm also pondering substituting spherical bearings of some kind in the
front suspension inner mounting points.

thanks in advance,
  richard
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