BalladeSports

Hi Everyone,

We are proud to present the Ballade Sports 18 pc Spherical Uni-Ball Suspension Bushing Kit for the Honda S2000. Ballade Sports strives for excellence in quality engineering and high performance; therefore we have designed a virtually maintenance free suspension bushing kit using the HIGHEST quality "American Made" Spherical Uni-Ball joints for all the Lower Control Arm pivot points along with solid straight Upper Control Arm Bronze bushings. This kit is a must for road race enthusiast looking eliminate alignment deflection and slop from rubber control arm bushings. Until now, no other manufacturer has produced a Spherical kit for the S2000 that is protected from dust and debris. Ballade Sports Uni-Ball Cups use a rubber O ring to keep out contaminants, keeping the Spherical joint clean while on the road. The Upper control arm bushings are made out of Steel/Bronze/Aluminum construction that is press fit and notched with Inner O rings on both ends keeping the bushing maintenance free.


The Front LCA rubber Compliance bushing is replaced with our Large Caster Spherical Uni-ball along with the matching Camber Uni-ball.


The Rear LCA and Toe Arm rubber bushings are also replaced with Uni-ball joints.


Please Note: The Uni-ball joint used for the rear Toe Arm also does double duty as an Anti-Bumpsteer kit to reduce snap over steer.


The Front & Rear Upper Control Arm bushings use our Bronze Straight Bushings replacing the factory rubber.


Due to the lack of alignment advantage, Front and Rear shock bushings are excluded from the use of solid bushings. This allows the user to retain some comfort in suspension travel.

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***Update. Pics of Uni-Ball Bearings installed***

SHG_Mike

Wow great price

clarkster009

s2000ellier

nice!

S2Krazy89

What's up with the c-clips and o-rings...?

Driven

mmm, group buy anyone?

Nyther

Hoe will the car perform/handle compared to oem bushings or the powerflex ones? Need something new for my daily drive S

JJ7

^Why would you want solid bushings/ bearings for a daily?

thepoi

I'd recommend against that for lifetime-related reasons as well. A poly set will reduce suspension movement, but will also be very very durable. Rigid mounting points will get beat up dealing with the cyclic loading of even easy mileage. That said, if you want to ball out of control all the time then go for it (and just replace them when they get pounded out).

That being said, the upper control arm bushing also need to be spherical bearings to be "safe". The mounting points on the car are just spot welded stampings, they aren't coaxial enough to use two bearings with a single axial degree of freedom. The control arm may not even be OK either if the recesses weren't machined in a single step. You'll get both rapid wear of the bushings, as they're resisting a side-loading with a huge amount of mechanical advantage, and cyclical loading of the control arm, that could lead to a fatigue failure. If I were to wildly speculate, I'd say that probably wouldn't happen, but I wouldn't take the risk, because I am an obnoxious pedant.

BalladeSports

^We chose not to use Uni-ball bearing for the upper A arms because our bronze bushing can be offset to increase caster higher or lower than the factory amounts. Also we felt the bronze bushing will be more durable from abuse. Reinforcement of the chassis mounting points for the front A arms is recommended for 00-03 models. The 04-09 models do have stamp welded brackets where Honda has already addressed the issues of failure.