i wanted to find out everyones opinions on different strut bars. i know theres a wide variety but i dont want the cheap ones, only quality. on my list is the suspension techniques front and rear decently priced for $250, then theres neuspeed for a ridiculous prices, like $350 for just the rear! then theres other sway bars like progress. dont know too much about tanabe. is there any good ones i missed?
i know neuspeed is gonna be the best but the prices are just ridiculous so i guess im asking whats the next best thing.
anyway, ide like this topic to be dedicated to sway bars and which brand to choose for front and rear. ide like to get them soon to match my new neuspeed front strut bar. hopefully we can agree on a final verdict (i know that would never happen lol)
I've considered getting a thicker rear one and removing the front because I'm so sick of understeer... oh well that's life in a Honda I supose. As soon as I have tried one or more I'll vote.
i know a lot more of you have thoughts on sway bars. lets make this thread the definitive source for sway bar info and opinion. do it once and do it right. then when someone does a search, this will answer their sway bar question.
it all depends on what application you are going for... a poll like this has no difinitive answer until we know why you want sway bars in the first place.
just basically so i can handle better. im not gonna autocross the car or plan to do that yet. i just want what sway bars are supposed to do, get rid of body roll
checked out a bunch of reviews on the ST sway bars and most of em are good except for the instalation and instructions. the review were all for civics and accords tho. a question i have is do you have to drill any holes to put in the ST sway bars or they go in the stock location? because some of the installations required you drill and i def dont want to drill. and also, does the sway bar hit the exhaust pipe sometimes at all? maybe if the car is lowered which i plan to do? so does anyone know that about the ST sway bars?
and btw, whats tanabes website??
Last edited by MidNiteMysT; 12-06-2003 at 10:39 AM.
First of all, you need to ask yourself what are all the suspension mods you will eventually do. I feel that limiting body roll can be done with shocks and springs plus get the added benefit of a better ride too.
If that is not in your future, then a front strut bar and a larger rear sway bar will help a little with the body roll and balance around corners. Neuspeed makes a great front strut bar and progress rear sway is also great. The adjustability will help as you further mod your suspension down the line.
well i have tein ss coilovers thats gonna be on the car but ide like the sway bars on the car too to help even more with stifness of the car. and i just ordered a neuspeed front strut bar. im not planning to do too much more for my suspension unless maybe some tie bars and sway bars. thats about it.
I am running Tein SS with some Falken 451 rubber and the car holds the road SOOO well its amazing. I have the Teins on 14/14, and for anyone who thinks dampening adjustment doesnt change much, you are sorrily mistaken. The car has a completely different personality on 14 than on 8. Very noticable if you are in tune with your car.
I got a Spoon FSTB for xmas, and would like to order the read after xmas, then I am looking into a rear sway. But there is one thing I am not quite sure about. I hear everyone saying how the rear bar will help to bring the back end around....is it just me or does that not make much sense? lol. When I am pushing my car hard, I dont ever think to myself "Gosh, sure wish the back end would swing around a bit". I do a lot of high speed driving such as high speed runs through the mountains which have anywhere from 35-105mph turns. So my question is....is a rear sway mostly for autox'ers who want the rear to rotate a bit on the tight courses?
the purpose of adding a super stiff rear sway bar and eliminating the front is to get rid of the understeer associated with FF cars (like it was said above). FF cars have understeer, and FR cars have a tendency to oversteer.
eliminating understeer will make our cars handle more neutral and in turn, handle better around corners.
it does, when we go into a corner we have to steer pretty constant to clear it because of the body roll that we have. a stiffer rear bar gets the roll out of the rear so that the back end is even more in line with the front, thus eliminating the body roll of the rear section of the car. thats why its said to "toss out" the rear, but since we have no power going to the rear wheels, the only way it slides out is due to the inertia and the angle of the turn in.
because we have no power going to the rear wheels, we can't have very much oversteer at all, so it basically neutralizes the understeer making the whole rear of the car "act" more like AWD in a way.
the best application for daily driving is what ever you feel comfortable with.
if you're used to understeer, then driving with both sway bars on is good. if you dont' drive too hard before you get used to the more "neutral" steering then you'll get used to driving like that... just think of it like learning how to drive, you can always get used to the feeling of something, as long as you don't push it before you're ready...
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(i know that would never happen lol)
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