rear sway bar project

[svxfiles]

Originally Posted by Nevin

Best of luck, Dayle!

I got some HID's from you a few years back and they still work amazingly.

Frankly, it doesn't bother me at all if someone else makes a rear bar. I've sold about 35 now, and like I've said many times, the only reason I got into it was because I wanted a larger one for myself and nothing existed. I am not trying to hijack dayle's thread by any means, but I've got 5 bars left in my posession, and when they're gone I really doubt I'll make any more. Making the rear bar was actually a piece of cake, honestly. I'm surprised someone else hasn't made their own by now. The only thing that's custom is the bar itself, and any competent machine shop can bend you a bar of steel of any length and hardness to whatever shape you desire, (including patterning it it after the stocker) which is why I'm surprised more hadn't done this before.

A front bar is going to be MUCH harder, because like Bill eluded to, the problem is two-fold. First, it has to be a two piece bar (splined at one end like the stocker) which would drive up costs, and two, you'd have to have a good place to connect the thing to the struts. Custom work would have to be done on each, and for the amount of work and cost it would take, it's not worth the investment for anyone to take on a project where they will sell MAYBE 10 of something.

Mine have always sold for $260 shipped anywhere in the lower 48 (except for special colors,) so if you can do it for any less, by all means be my guest.

Dayle has been serving the svx community for longer than I even knew it existed, so if he has something to offer for a better price than even I can do, I'm all for it.

This is a great group of people I have met here, and I'm proud to own one of the weirdest cars on the road like the rest of you here!

NEVIN,
Yours has to be the classiest answer/responce to another Modification Provider in the history of SVX upgrading products, EVER!
good Show, Young Man!

[kjoyes]

Hi, Just Checking if anyone has got there rear sway bar yet he told me the would be shipping out in a week about 3 months ago.
if you did get it would you write a review of it?

[jman050]

He updated me on may 10th and told me he was going to call the shop making them. And no further communication yet.

[huck369]

My Sway bar arrived today...
Will post thoughts when I get around to installing it....

[Motorsport-SVX]

Jman050 you should have yours too by now too, Huck got his

we have some on the shelf ready to ship now and more are being
made as we need them, seems like the long wait for material is behind
us now.
thanks for everyones patients !!

[jman050]

I received mine as well. I will be installing tomorrow morning!

[kjoyes]

Could someone post pictures of the hardware, and the rear sway bar that they received.

[huck369]

I got it installed Friday night, Was an easy straight forward install, everything fit up fine, took about half an hour, but I wasn't rushing.
I didn't Really get to test it out, as I have a brake issue to deal with, but no noises, and definitely less body roll, hopefully I'll get to really test it out soon (REALLY wishing I had had it a couple weeks ago so I could have tested it at the Dragon)
It is manufactured by ADDCO, and It Came with new mounting brackets and bushings, and Poly bushings for the endlinks (uses the stock endlinks)

I'll try to get my brake issue resolved and really test it out soon....

[Motorsport-SVX]

thanks for the picks Huck
I need to get some of my installation soon too.

[huck369]

You're Welcome Dayle,

Got my brake issue fixed (was the rubber line going to the Left Ft caliper) and have driven it more now, definitely keeps the rear end flatter!, MUCH better than the stock one did, the Poly End Link Bushings squeak a bit, but I didn't lube them, so that is to be expected with Poly bushings, over all, I like it, and don't really have any complaints ....Drifts better now

[Motorsport-SVX]

cool
I pretty much noticed about the same results with mine
one thing that helped too was I made sure my tires where pumped
up to about 40-42 psi max options
glad you got your car back on track

[Motorsport-SVX]

we have about 10 of these now on hand ready to ship
for anyone thinking about getting one, all of our
manufacturer issues are behind us .
for those of you who bought are rear bar, we really hope you
are enjoying it.
thx, and hope we can add more stuff we are looking at doing
for 2014..

Front sway bar ? ... prob not...
but are are looking at possibly making an interior X BRACE similar
to the one being made for the STi s on the market.

[Subachouli]

I want one.

Sent you an email Dayle.

Also very much looking forward to information on the X brace. =)

[Motorsport-SVX]

just a heads up, no wait time anymore
we have 7 Rear Bars on the shelf, so shipping is
immediate

[Tapani]

Has anyone tried the thicker bar in snow?

With paint off my stock bar is 17,0-17,3mm in diameter.... the 22mm bar is quite a bit stiffer... see metric table for polar moment of inertia below.....

17 8198
18 10304
19 12792
20 15705
21 19090
22 22994
23 27468
24 32566

With the VTD tranny and the Torsen diffs it's rather easy to induce winter over streer as it is.... a 20mm bar is almost twice the stiffness of the original bar and the 22mm bar is almost three times as stiff.

I may try having a 20mm bar made here locally (shipping from the US is almost as expensive as the bar itself). My thoughts are to make it just enough shorter so I can use regular dog bones - the mountings turned 180 degrees. This will also eliminate the flex in the OEM rubber end bushes.

Any comments?

/T