effectiveness of anti-sway bars

[Sachmho]

Hey, I was wondering if anyone has any experience with getting anti-sway bars for your car. I'm quite interested in their proposed handling ability increases; so if anyone's got info on their effectiveness and such, i'd love to hear it. thanks.

 

[iamwiz82]

Increasing rear sway bar thickness will increase oversteer, increasing front sway bar thickness will increase understeer. Judge what your car has more of and fix accordingly. You probably have a FWD car, so you will most likely want a thicker rear sway bar, since most FWD cars exhibit extreme amounts of understeer.

 

[Sachmho]

yeah, fwd... it isn't better to get both though? I was under the impression that they worked to decrease body roll primarily, leading me to believe getting both would be more effective. hmm, odd

 

[iamwiz82]

they do, but you really dont need to change both, unless your car has the handling properties of a boat.

 

[jonMEGA]

They work. My rear sway bar broke on me, and I could notice a big difference in handling. Once I got I replaced everthing is good again.

 

[Sachmho]

yeah... my car (accord) doesn't have either; it doesn't handle horribly but I know there is a ton of improvement. If getting both won't make a noticeable difference over getting just a rear then i suppose that would be the way to go. anyone else?

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: Sachmho
yeah... my car (accord) doesn't have either; it doesn't handle horribly but I know there is a ton of improvement. If getting both won't make a noticeable difference over getting just a rear then i suppose that would be the way to go. anyone else?

I have not heard of a car without swaybars in a loooooong time.

 

[Sachmho]

hmm ohh nevermind, I was thinking about strut tower braces when i was figuring out if my car had them (which it doesn't) i'd assume then that mine may have them, but i'm sure their diameter is nothing impressive.

]edit for clarity]

In the above I am still referring to anti sway bars, I only mentioned strut tower braces because I had pictured them momentarily. I realize I may have sounded like I was switching subjects with reckless abandon.

 

[Sachmho]

^a worthy edit

 

[ApacheXMD]

not that worthy, considering it's still confusing as hell what you're trying to say...

-patchy

 

[Shockwave]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: Sachmho
yeah... my car (accord) doesn't have either; it doesn't handle horribly but I know there is a ton of improvement. If getting both won't make a noticeable difference over getting just a rear then i suppose that would be the way to go. anyone else?

I have not heard of a car without swaybars in a loooooong time.

My car doesnt have a rear sway bar.
Course thats cause its broke.

 

[RagingBITCH]

What year is your Accord? I know for sure that the 6th gen's all had front and rear sways except for the DX model. I recently replaced the 14mm rear sway on my 7th gen with a 20mm rear sway from the 04 TL and everything feels so much better on the road - ride is firmer, steering is crisper, handles 10x better at speed, etc. (The front sway stock is 22mm IIRC so it balances out a lot better)

 

[m2kewl]

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
What year is your Accord? I know for sure that the 6th gen's all had front and rear sways except for the DX model. I recently replaced the 14mm rear sway on my 7th gen with a 20mm rear sway from the 04 TL and everything feels so much better on the road - ride is firmer, steering is crisper, handles 10x better at speed, etc. (The front sway stock is 22mm IIRC so it balances out a lot better)

yeah, what's with honda putting a 14mm rear sway on the tsx also...:| i'm going to replace mine with a 19mm also.

 

[RagingBITCH]

Originally posted by: m2kewl

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
What year is your Accord? I know for sure that the 6th gen's all had front and rear sways except for the DX model. I recently replaced the 14mm rear sway on my 7th gen with a 20mm rear sway from the 04 TL and everything feels so much better on the road - ride is firmer, steering is crisper, handles 10x better at speed, etc. (The front sway stock is 22mm IIRC so it balances out a lot better)

yeah, what's with honda putting a 14mm rear sway on the tsx also...:| i'm going to replace mine with a 19mm also.

I guess it's because it's technically an Accord too Beats me though. You're putting on the CL-S sway right? The TL's seem to be OOS at most of the typical places. You could always put on the Neuspeed rear sway but that's 2x the price