This is a question directed toward guys who run road courses.
A buddy of mine has a S13 with an S14 subframe running many Z32 compenents including the rear wheel bearings.The bearings have ~ 2k additional miles (with roughly 800 miles of track time) since the suspesion was setup. Is this normal wear or do you expect something in his setup is causing premature wear? Here are some details on the setup: Wheels bearings - one is 70k mi OEM and the other is new Timken that he thinks is stamped "Made in Japan". Aurora spherical bearings on the camber/traction/toe links, rod ends on adjustable arms on the subframe side, solid rear subframe bushings, stock Z32 RLCA with Delrin bushings on the subframe side. -1.5 deg camber, ~3/16" total toe in
17x9 +17 wheels, 255/40-17s With this setup, there's ~ 3/16" of play at the tire moving the wheel bearing around on each side. The car was fine on track for the most part, but we could hear clunking as he loaded/unloaded sides, and the handling would get a little tail happy in some parts, but was driveable because everything is solid back there. Any ideas?
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