i just recently installed the HKS hipermax... and noticed clanking noises and sounds when i hit bumps and stuff... sounds like something's loose.... i'm pretty certain i tightened everything when i did the install...


it doesn't make this noise during a smooth compression just when there's potholes or whatever that would cause the car to jolt.

previous experience tells me it's just my pillowball mounts but i want to make sure

 

your assumptions are probably correct. mine makes no noises what-so-ever

 

okay so your running the hipermaxes with the pillowball mounts also.... and your's make no noises what so ever?!?!?

if that's true.... then the good news is that i can make it go away... the bad news is now i have to back under there and figure out what may be loose.

i have a feelin its the endlink on the swaybars... and now that i think about it... only my rears make noise

 

Bingo

 

yea... now that i really think about it... the same noises came from my MR2... and it turned out to be the endlinks...

endlinks on the SC were SUPER HARD to break loose when i was installing the coilovers

looks like i'mma be under there this weekend

 

Well I have a clunking noise too, but when I was doing my struts, one of the endlinks got stripped. A new one was put in and it still clunks. I'm thinking rear bushings.

James

 

rear bushings... i sure hope not....

it's hard to believe to mess that up from simply installing coilovers

 

They may have been messed up before but the suspension was settled. Once you put on new components, it strengthened that aspect, while the rest were still old. You know what they say about the weak link in a chain...it's the first to break. I know my bushings started making noise after doing springs and struts.

James