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Posted: September 30th, 2005, 8:55 am
by happyclown
I was worried that i would have to do some reinforcing... im still looking into it but i think i need to replace my rearjoints (you can shake the wheel with your hands and it clunks)...
How will this be able to replace them? Would it be very easy?
On the lightest setting will anything need reinforcing?
Deffinatly something im intrested in, but I dont wanna have to fix other things because of it...
Posted: September 30th, 2005, 6:00 pm
by Legato626
man you cannot get any easyer then this. first is the joints are REALLY ANNOYING TO TAKE OFF!!!! took me a dremal and a boat load of cutting disks. But the links just bolts on to where the stock ones go its really easy.
Posted: October 1st, 2005, 2:56 am
by slowmx3
i have heim joints on my stock bar. But that looks sweet!
Posted: October 7th, 2005, 8:56 pm
by papa roached
got my bar today, will post up pics when i find the camera batts
Posted: October 7th, 2005, 9:19 pm
by neutral
Ordered mine today.
Per previous post - Never did find the info I thought I remembered Vaughn wrote a few years back about welding rear undercarriage reinforcement to handle collateral stresses from an oversized rear anti-sway bar. omg, musta been having a brain fart.
Posted: October 10th, 2005, 6:22 am
by SIXPACK
I would like to see some pics
Posted: October 10th, 2005, 11:22 pm
by papa roached
guys, i am gonna e-mail rob at zx tuner because the bar WILL NOT FIT, it wont clear our back suspension
Posted: October 11th, 2005, 1:27 am
by Legato626
was it not made right?
Posted: October 11th, 2005, 6:21 am
by neutral
Just ordered this upgrade so here's hoping my fitment experience is more like Legato626's than papa roached. Anyone else have an easy or hard time swapping in the new ZX2 bar please post.
Posted: October 11th, 2005, 1:05 pm
by papa roached
the brackets to make it bolt to the body wont clear the back suspension, they hang out to far, Legato626 could you take pics of your install?
Posted: October 11th, 2005, 2:43 pm
by Legato626
i haven't got mine yet!
Posted: October 11th, 2005, 4:37 pm
by Legato626
I contacted my brother and let him know he will find out!!!
Posted: October 13th, 2005, 7:37 am
by neutral
Legato626 wrote:man you cannot get any easyer then this. first is the joints are REALLY ANNOYING TO TAKE OFF!!!! took me a dremal and a boat load of cutting disks. But the links just bolts on to where the stock ones go its really easy.
neutral wrote:Just ordered this upgrade so here's hoping my fitment experience is more like Legato626's than papa roached. Anyone else have an easy or hard time swapping in the new ZX2 bar please post.
Legato626 wrote:i haven't got mine yet!
Did I miss something? Apparently...? How can the install "not get any easier than this," when ya haven't even received your new sway bar yet?
Posted: October 13th, 2005, 1:43 pm
by mike_moss
This is pretty fitting since as far as I know the bars from the Protege/Escort are different from the bars on the MX-3 GS.
I think they screwed up and never fitted it on an MX-3 and just assumed it would swap since struts/springs/brakes and alot of pieces swap.
Posted: October 13th, 2005, 7:08 pm
by jschrauwen
Well isn't this just special. I hope the right thing gets done. Haven't recieved mine yet either.