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00:00 - Is there a solution that allows camber plate top mounts for a MacPherson strut without the harshness of a pillowball top mount? Yeah I mean really this is the typical trade off you get any time you're upgrading your suspension in terms of getting rid of rubber bushings and putting in solid spherical bushings.
00:16 You get a compliance gain in that in that you don't get all that flex you get in all of the rubber style bushings.
00:22 The downside of that, you get a lot more NVH, that's noise, vibration and harshness, that's all the stuff that the OEMs and the manufacturers are fighting so hard to work against and the reason they spend all of that money developing those actually surprisingly sophisticated bushings and stuff in our suspension and then we go ahead and destroy it all by putting solid bearings in there which for a track use is a good call but it does make them pretty unpleasant on the road sometimes.
00:45 I mean when you say pillowball there, there's a couple of different ways people use that term pillowball.
00:48 Sometimes it means a completely solid spherical bearing in that top mount and other times it means a spherical bearing that's actually encased in some sort of polymer or rubber around the outside so it gives, it's trying to give sort of like a halfway point between a fully rigid bearing and something that gets rid of a little bit of the vibration and harshness by encasing it in a bit of a rubber sleeve.
01:09 So I would say, that's what I would call a traditional pillowball where you've got a, you do have a solid bearing or a solid spherical bearing but it's encased in some sort of rubber so it sort of gives you that halfway in between point between a fully rubber top mount and a full on hard core just solid top mount so I would say if that's really important to you and you want to come back a step, maybe you could look at looking at genuine pillowball, I'm not sure if you mean a solid bearing or not but really other than that, if you're using solid bearings and you want the performance out of it, you've got, that's really your only option, you've just got to deal with the poor mileage, noise and vibration that comes along with it.
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