Front Control Arm Bushing Question

[northdakotakid]

Okay so my upper control arm bushings are shot on the passenger side up front. My question is, Is there any type of bushing that I should look into getting? I cant afford the polyurethane bushings from DM, but is there another afermarket set out there? Or should I stick with OEM?

 

[supraguy@aol]

Energy suspension bushings are the least expensive option available if you're going aftermarket,
and they're certainly cheaper as a set than oem.

 

[northdakotakid]

Any first hand experiences with them?

 

[supraguy@aol]

Me? no- not yet.
I've got both front and rears sitting on a garage shelf in their boxes, waiting to be installed.

 

[leftynridge]

You can't beat the price. Be sure to not heat the control arm up to high while removing the old ones or just have them pressed out. I have replaced all my bushings with poly bushings.

 

[northdakotakid]

Wow a front end set of Energy Bushings is only 25 bucks? I think I will be going with that.

 

[martin p]

Used there lower arm ones on my last supra, very good, easy to install as well.

 

[northdakotakid]

Good, I need new bushings soon. Every time I hit the brakes, there was a distinct clunk in the front end, and when work got slow I had my co worker drive the car back and forth, hitting the brake, and you could actually see the upper control arm moving back and forth, its pretty bad.

So has anyone heard of this site? http://www.energysuspensionbushing.com/home.php they call themselves a "discount reseller" of energy bushings. They have a front control arm bushing set for around 25 bucks for the supra with free shipping. Whereas other sites are selling the front bushing set for over 80 dollars. Whats the catch here?