32mm/17mm sway bar

[ssms5411]

Re: 32mm/17mm sway bar

If the hole is small you could use some black RTV to seal it. If it is driving fine, then you probably got lucky and just tore the boot. Just watch your tires on the front to see if they are starting to wear uneven. Like mine the allignment was off and I didn't noticed until I jacked it up one day and the inner tire was worn on both sides down to almost bald. Had a allignment done and then had 2 new front tires put on. It was my fault though, I had put in tubular upper A arms and didn't have a allignment done.

[LETZRIDE]

Re: 32mm/17mm sway bar

I know it drove the stand into the ashphault about 1/4 inch lol....if I got to replace stuff, this project got real expensive, real fast lol...

[greasemonkey]

Re: 32mm/17mm sway bar

If you don't have the Y87 package just spend a hundred or so on a used Z28/TA rack. Tighter steering and non-bent tie rods.

[black98V6]

Re: 32mm/17mm sway bar

FTMFW

ok sorry I have been on the boards for a long time but I have no idea what FTMFW means, maybe I'm gettng old. :(

*edit*nevermind wikipedia to the rescue

[FireEagle22]

Re: 32mm/17mm sway bar

Letzride personally I would leave the front sway bar stock and get an after-market or thicker/stiffer one for the rear. But thats just my two cents. I don't know if you know this but the stiffer/thicker the front one is compared to back the more its going to have a tendency to under-steer during cornering. I wouldn't recommend anyone with an after-market front sway bar and stock rear sway bar to try to take any corners to fast. Your car sure will feel stiffer and like it has less body roll but it will feel like it wants to go in a straight line as opposed to feeling like the car is easily turning into the corner you are trying to carve. If you leave the front stock and the rear after-market. Now thats going to give you a better turn in feel and you want have to smash the brakes to get your car to turn since the F-bodies already have stiffer spring rates in the front from the factory already giving int an under-steer attitude. If you already got it and don't want to go through the trouble of getting rid of it. Since you have adjustables you won't have to. But I would recommend fixing this by making your rear a little stiffer to give your car a more neutral feel. By the way is your suspension double adjustable or single adjustable? Also is it compression adjustable or rebound adjustable?

[loser]

Re: 32mm/17mm sway bar

i disagree, bigger in the front is better. id rather have a big front and stock rear than a big rear and stock front, thats just asking to wreck , rear-end is too slide happy.

going to big in the rear gets dangerous quickly.

35mm sway bar up front and 17 in the rear and the car loves it. very predictable and its not scary in the rain/sudden movements

[Bonemaro]

Re: 32mm/17mm sway bar

I'll take a good over-steer over an under-steer any day!

[LETZRIDE]

Re: 32mm/17mm sway bar

hey bone, if I swapped the 17 with a 19 in my setup....how do you think it would handle?

[loser]

Re: 32mm/17mm sway bar

hey bone, if I swapped the 17 with a 19 in my setup....how do you think it would handle?

with a 19 you should be OK but,

again, cars with bigger back bars will tend to be more slide-happy in hard/fast coners. bigger front will somewhat compensate but still, too big in the rear gets scary in the rain or swerving things.

i know people who autocross and run small bars or dont run a rear bar at all, bigger rear bars make the car LOOSE traction in hard coners.

just things to keep in mind.

[ssms5411]

Re: 32mm/17mm sway bar

I don't think bigger sways in the rear make you lose traction , I would think they would support you to the ground more, I've been running my ST35mm up front with a 21 mm rear for about 2 years and I def. don't lose any traction it is like a cat on carpet.LOL The only thing that I hear is the tires moving alittle when I take a hard corner, and they are BFG G-Force sports 275/40/17's.