[wjdunham]

Need some help getting out of my analysis paralysis and picking which rear suspension bushings to go with. The car is a 1969 911E with a 3.4 Motronic motor, upgraded the rear banana arms to the later aluminum style which have the Elephant Racing monoball inner bushings. The fronts are all ER polybronze bushings. Adjustable ER front and rear sway bars.

The problem I'm having is choosing the rear spring plate bushings. I have the ER polybronze on my 1985 and love them, but greasing them is a real pain and creates a bit of a mess under the spring plates that is tough to keep clean.

My choices and the plus/minus for each:
ER polybronze - excellent performance but pain to grease and messy

Rebel Racing - excellent performance but not excited about JB welding anything to the car itself. Would be real pain if I ever wanted to replace. Also the most expensive option.

Rubber of some sort - probably can get decent performance but too many choices and horror stories about early failure and difficulty properly bonding to the spring plates. Also a pain to set the ride height if the inner rubber gets stuck in the car. Least expensive option.

Hard plastic (the ones that come with the Weltermesiter adjustable spring plates) - decent performance but they can squeak. Any other issues with these?

I'm leaning towards the Rebel Racing option as it is the highest performance without the headache of grease/maintenance. Any thoughts on how hard it would be to remove and clean up the chassis if I decided to go another direction. If I want to go with Rubber what is the best option here (ER, URO, Prekom, other)?

Thanks for any thoughts/help!!
Bill