So the rear end is on the back burner for now. Ill deal with it once I get a tad bit of cash and time to buy some rear hubs from the PnP.
But this weekend was monumental. With the help of the coolest guy I have met since being out here in california (Dan[sac]) I got the MS front sway bar on and by help I mean he did most of the work and I tired to assist lol.
I havent got a chance to really test out the bar just yet because I need new endlinks. I did ALOT of research on a bigger front bar because everyone knows the fundamentals of sway bar sizing and your drive train relationship and I dont think that applies to EVERY single vehicle as a standard. I think each chassis is designed different from what works for that car and what will work for the next. I found out eibach makes larger front sway bars for the FWD cars on its website and there the gurus when it comes to aftermarket suspension upgrades that are still streetable. The Integra type R. The greatest handling FWD chassis of all time has a 25mm front and 22mm rear bar and mazdaspeed engineers and drivers knew what they were doing when they tuned the car from the ground up. The fact that this car HAS to have every mazdaspeed piece in the brochure Unless there is something better adds to the bar going on the car as well.
It took awhile to drop the sub frame but not as long as I thought and once the old bar came off I was shocked at how light it was. So it is indeed hollow. I mean the MS bar is only so much bigger but it was easily 4 times heavier. Anyway here are some pics of this epic moment. I say that because I have been scouring the earth looking for this holy grail this seems to be the only front bar on the planet lol
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
. I have ran into tons of rear bars so those aren't hard to find but I have never even seen the front bar in pics or on the web or anything and say someone did have it, It takes ALOT of work to take it back off to sell it so the ones that did sell got crushed with the car or are still on and and someone has no idea what they have. I just got real lucky somehow.
A side by side comparison.
Minus the actual weight Dan and I had to double check I indeed have the real deal front MS bar.
OEM
MS
Then we got everything taken off the MS MX3. It was cool because we didnt have to remove the subframe all the way to the ground. Just lowered it a bit and slid the oem one out and put the MS one in. The endlinks and reassembling the traction bar is what gave the most trouble through the whole process
It looks like its right at home...
![Image](http://i.imgur.com/Hm4Pjzw.jpg)