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[Darren]

You COULD replace all of the rubber bushings, I think every bushing is available now.  Probably not such a great idea unless you want to make it a track-only car.  I put the rear monoballs on my car this year and it really stiffened the back of the car up.  Not great on a date if you go over the cobblestones down in Philly "What is wrong with your CAR?"  Hehe, they'll never understand....

I think you are in great shape for a while Steve.  Now you have to learn the car all over again.  If you keep changing things it will make things more difficult for you.

I think I'm finding that unless you sphericalize everything together, you reduce the deflection on some bushings, which HAS TO increase it on others.  Normally the load is distributed across all of them, and they were engineered to work this way.  If you reduce/increase it on random bushings, I don't think it was engineered to work that way, and I get a few odd wiggles in my car right now.

Add a #11 to your list for the future -- upgraded motor mounts.  They are easy to change and I can feel mine moving around a bit.  Depending on how stiff your springs are, this might be more of an issue.

What spring rates are you running?