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I've installed the SAW spring plates with their bushings on 3 different Carreras over the years and had to put the bushings in a lathe to get the outer diameter correct in every case. The most recent ones I got for my current '86 didn't come with the spacers but I had a pair in my parts box from a previous car so used those. Even after machining the OD for a correct fit, the inner diameter was so tight that the spring plates barely rotated in them. I ran those for half the track season in 2008 and promptly switched to Chuck's PolyBronze. Night and day difference.

I know you said they weren't in your budget, but when I considered what my time cost me trying to make the SAW crap work then have to pull it all apart to do it correctly with the ER parts, it would have been cheaper to just do the ER from the beginning. When I waste a day on the car, that's a day I've lost with my 8 yr old. Which is unfortunately why my car isn't even close to back together this summer.... she's only going to be 8 once and I'd rather spend my time with her right now.