I<3myap1

Hey guys,

The helpful staff at Energy Suspension just finished the installation of their polyurethane bushings on my AP1. We attempted to document this entire process to help out the community.

2000 Honda S2000 Energy Suspension Polyurethane Bushings Installation

We hope this helps out some folks with the installation!

Cheers!

WarrenW

Good write up, thanks. I'm looking at getting a set of Energy Suspension bushings for front & rear to replace the old worn OEM. How do you like the Energy Suspension bushings after the 3yrs since you posted this?

Shadow993

This looks like hard tedious work ! What's the typical cost for this?

jp182

Looking for that as well. I went to a local shop and they told me that it would be cheaper to buy new stock parts.

roel03

Typical install for a shop is $1k-$2k, excluding parts. If you remove all of the suspension arms and bring them to someone, the cost will drop dramatically. Probably around $500 for them to press/burn all of the old bushings and press in the new ones.

Dead Serious

Look out for any kit that only supports the control arm from one side. Any bushing that sees a thrust load needs to be two piece with a shoulder on either side of the hole in the control arm. Companies typically cheap out on the UCA in this way.

weenrock

I followed Dead Serious's posts about his experience with bushings. I have FULL energy suspension bushings (suspension, sway bars, and diff). The only issue I had is with the rear upper control arms. The fix was to replace them with Powerflex's rear upper control arm. EXPENSIVE, but it fixed the gap issue where the bushing could move perpendicular with the car (thrusting). I called Energy Suspension about a fix for it and said there was a revision. I got the updated revision parts for the rear UCAs, but it didn't fit my AP2. They said then don't use the revision... So the fix doesn't fix it.

I will say I am still happy with my bushings including the front lower compliance bushings. I took mine apart to inspect and still holding up well for two years.

Fokker

Did they make the same mistake that the Prothane kit did? Their rear UCA were sized for AP1 arms and not AP2 arms (larger bushings). I swapped the uppers to Powerflex front and back when it became clear the one piece poly design wasn't going to hold up.

weenrock

If I remember correctly, Energy and Prothane are the same company. So my guess is they are the same design. The UCA kit is a one piece with a simple "shim" that is supposed to act as the other side of the bushing, but that shim is 1MM too thin.

weenrock

This is the gap. Terrible design.