A rough season of dirt racing finished off my rear suspension so now looking for upgrade options. Anyone know if the mounting ears are better or worse from year to year or model?

 

Never seen that before. Years are the same as far as quality goes.
You need a new rear beam.

 

thats going to need a whole new beam not just the lateral link and control rod ... Ouch

 

+1. Never seen this happen. Get a replacement beam and spray some rust reformer on it before installing. That rim doesn't look like it faired too good either.

 

https://maxima.org/showthread.php?t=632039

 

Thanks for the link. Very interesting!

 

I can only dream of doing that upgrade as I really wrestle with understeer. So for now I will just strip the parts off a wrecked car.

 

plenty in the boneyard now!

 

Is it really an upgrade, though? What alot of people on the org don't realize is that the rear multi-link beam suspension has an RSB built into the beam. When you add an aftermarket RSB you effectively have 2 RSBs.

For example in the pic of the Sentra before and after the Panhard install, the 1st pic says "Without the Panhard, using the OEM SRL", when it should "Without the Panhard, using the OEM SRL PLUS OEM RSB PLUS AFTERMARKET RSB"

The aftermarket RSB is plainly obvious in the picture. Given that setup, rear end lift as the result of 2 RSBs is inevitable.

In the after setup the SRL, captioned "With the Panhard" really is "With the Panhard PLUS OEM RSB." So now you have the OEM RSB working in conjunction with the Panhard rod..... with good results.

I had an RSB on my car but once I lowered it the RSB wasn't needed. I found the tail end of my car to be too hot with H&Rs and an aftermarket RSB. The Panhard article seems to bear out this observation.