DIY DIY: Installing 98-02 swaybars

DIY: Installing 98-02 swaybars

http://www.geocities.com/superpilun/swaybar.html

What you think of them? Is the ride harsh when you hit bumps?

I find it weird that Superpilun claims the stock front bar is 7/8" or 22mm when on http://www.globalperformanceparts.com/index.php?cPath=404_967_1146
they are selling a Whiteline front sway bar in 22mm. Basically a stock front sway bar.

Whiteline engineers probably dont see the need of increasing the diameter of the front sway bar. Pilun is correct, the OEM fsb is 22mm (perhaps even a little larger) but what's different between the whiteline and OEM is the whiteline is a solid bar and OEM is hollow, this wouldn't do much with affecting performance but the whiteline is infact more heavy duty and may be able to more capiable of resisting a bending moment in statics.

Something else whiteline could've MAYBE done is shorten the outboard arms on the sway bar. A sway bar is a torson spring and the value of the stiffness can be calculated by the total 'arm' length vs. the 'bar' length. By shortening the effective arm length would reduce the leverage ratio thus increasing the 'stiffness.' This part is a theory though, I'd ask whiteline to get the real answer.

What sways are those?

Superpilun's were TLS Steel

Did ride quality get bumpier? Many potholes around here and many bad roads.