So I’ve been looking to mess with the suspension of the RX8 I own. Has anyone heard of Drop Engineering? They are on mazdatrix.com (link), so I figured they have to be good.

After searching a little more, Kyle Mohan uses them! Anyone else have any experience with them by chance?

I found some pictures of someone installing them into the front upper control arms, sorry about the size of the pictures. Looks pretty straight-forward to be honest.

Stock:


Tools to remove the bushings:


Setting up the tools to remove bushings:


Removing bushing:


Done!

 

What is the point of this?

 

This is an aluminum bearing housing with a spherical bearing installed offset to add negative camber to the front of the RX8. Kit does both L&R control arms.

It adds camber into your suspension without having to dial it in to the suspension. Its basically so you can get a perfectly flat leading tire while drifting instead of some fucked up camber ****.

These will add like a degree or two of negative camber into the front suspension while your camber adjustment is at 0. Basically just allows more negative camber for aggressive as all get out wheel setups.

 

^^ Wow... nicely put. Couldn't have said it better myself.

 

Good explanation. Thanks.

 

No problem, I've been debating about them for quite a while now. I know I'll be getting the Delrin bushings from Mazdatrix for the upper control arms.

Honestly, if you are serious about setting your car up for drifting, these would be a no brainer, but normally for a street driven 8 or even a tracked one, unless you need a lot of camber, don't bother.