Just in time for this weekends autocross, I installed my adjustable progress rear sway bar
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Before
Comparison
After
Right now I have it on the middle setting. Hopefully I can handle the oversteer at this autocross. I wouldnt be surprised if I spin out. I wouldnt be surprised if I spin out on every single run... Although hopefully, I will be faster then before and place pretty well, but we'll see.
The install wasnt too bad. You can't fit a wrench in these stupid L brackets so you have to jam a screw driver in it, which subsequently gets stuck. I had to use washers to shim the hiem joints so they wouldnt bind, just like Toolapcfan had said. I probably could have used another washer even, but it didnt look like the nut was going to have enough bolt to grab onto. The hiem joints also wanted to spin when you try to tighten down the lock nuts. I had to twist it in the opposite direction first, so after I tightened it down they would be nice and lined up.
Shimmed hiem joint, drivers side:
Passenger side:
At full droop, the end of the sway bar nearly touch the struts, there is maybe a mm of space in there. I ended up installing everything with jack stands on the knuckles so it was loaded. I was pulled into my driveway which is on an incline, so I was hoping that with the rear in the air, it would level the car out. The rear was slightly to high, so I jacked up the front an inch or two until the car was level. That made it easy to get the L brackets parralel to the ground (since hte car was straight, I just used a level), and also to tighten down everything with the suspenion loaded.
And here is a picture I took tonight of me pulling into the driveway. That wheel is pretty far off the ground if you can't tell because of the lighting.
One stiff sway bar. Someone better get some shots of me three wheeling this weekend.
-Mike
