No more Whiteline swaybars?!

[fowljesse]

So, I finally decided to order mine, and turbowholesale doesn't list them anymore, and niether does Whiteline Hopefully, I'm doing something wrong, and can't find them. I wrote to both of them, and will see what they say.
I did some screwing around with forging, straightening out thick American car suspension springs. I wonder if I could take a piece of hardened rod, and bend it to the right shape, and make a 22mm swaybar.

[onlytrueromeo]

NOOO I wanted one Ive just been waiting til spring!

[Nd4SpdSe]

Dammit! This is the same situation with my SRD stuff...decide to wait until spring, and by then they no longer have them!

[Ukrman]

wow i didn't even know they had them lol

[solo_ryder]

That blows...

I am gonna try to source out a 96 swaybar, see if I get lucky

[wytbishop]

I did a little research into making my own sway bars. The tricky bit is the material. 4120 spring steel is very expensive. One of the branches of the company I work for manufactures rod in various sizes for the oil field. I was trying to figure out if one of our products would do the job but never got very far. The materials people here know everything there is to know about continuous sucker rod and almost nothing about anything else.

Heating and bending it in a jig wouldn't be a problem, but then giving it the correct temper would be difficult. Not many places have an oven that can fit a bent up sway bar.

[Ukrman]

they do have them here aparently

http://www.globalperformanceparts.com/w ... 24133.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

and looks llike they might also have them at whiteline

http://www.whiteline.com.au/default.asp ... aybars.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[wytbishop]

Also note from Whiteline, that the MX-3 part number is a rear sway bar in 22mm diameter. They list no front sway bar for MX-3. The best shot at a front oversized sway bar is the BG 323 GTX 24mm bar. I'm not sure if it would work though as the 4WD cars had different front sub frames.

[fowljesse]

Yeah. Thanks Ukrman. I didn't think to look up the part #.
I ordered it, finally. They are cheaper there than they were at turbowholesale, too

[Nd4SpdSe]

Apparently Corksport has them listed too now...

http://corksport.com/store/category/53g ... _misc.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[fowljesse]

I went on a rant campaign to anyone I could think of about not having them.
I guess it worked.

[nightfire]

Hmm... will a stiffer rear sway bar result in more oversteer or understeer?

I'd really like to reduce my overall body roll. I have SRD polyurethane front sway bar bushings that I need to install.. didn't find the time. I'd really like to change both sway bars, but I guess we're out of luck for the front eh?

I've got a '96 so I suppose I'm lucky to begin with. but the body roll is pretty bad on our cars. :/

[fowljesse]

Yoda did a great post about this. He said, along with the rear swaybar upgrade, and other things, it's actually best to not even use the front swaybar. The rear upgrade ruduces understeer more than I expected. I haven't had a chance to push the car to the point of understeer again, yet, since it's at a higher speed that will take some getting used to. I will be installing the SRD reproduction stuff before the car I get a chance to test it, so it'll be interesting

[Ukrman]

Hey jesse, hows the swaybar working out for you, feel any difference? Hows the SRD crossmemebr and rear tie bar?

[Mooneggs]

FYI - corksport and globalperformanceparts has these on backorder now until the end of May...

I found a listing on ebay.com.au but wanted an extra $100 for shipping