I'm starting to do the suspension on my car and i'm not sure what ends to get on the LCA,T/A,pan hard bar, front control arms. Its going to be drivin on the street mostly and drag raced sometimes. I was thinking about going with poly bushings because I hurd the rod ends will start to make noise. Is this true?

 

I have a rod end on my panhard rod and you can hear it when your going over bumpy roads. I say get bushings on whatever you can if you're going to drive it a lot.

 

Rod ends will not make noise unless theyre the shitty ones. I have rod ended LCA's and theyre dead silent. If they start to rattle and clunk it means its time for them to be replaced.

 

Stang killer is correct. If you have high quality rod ends, they will be silent for approx 15k miles, maybe longer on the panhard bar. Definitely go with double rod ended APHB. I went with Poly LCA's just because i didn't know any better at the time but they seem to be working fine. I haven't had any binding issues, at least not that i noticed.

 

And for what its worth, replacement rod ends dont cost much either.

 

Stang killer is right. A set of QA-1 rod ends are less than $20.00 a piece. If they go noisy, just replace them. But they are definitely better than Poly units.

 

I have rod ends and It didn't make any noise till they wore out. Even with the noise it isn't loud enough for me to really hear it inside the car with the windows up and the stereo on.. Now if the windows are down I can hear it pretty good. I just need to take some time to swap some new ones on

 

I thought the top QA-1s were like $40.00 a pop?? On a 15K+ a year daily driver with 6 rod ends (4 LCA, 2 APHR) that can get pricey!! (Even worse if you have rod ended front control arms!)

 

THey aren't $40... More around $20