So the daily needs new rear sway bar bushings. Im pretty sure that its a sign from God that uts time to make it handle better.
Car is an 02 protege5. Stock as the day is long.
Ive git a line on a progress 22mm bar. Stock is 16mm.
Just want less bidy roll, better turnin. Planning on doing fresh stagg ststruts prior to sway bar to isolate the change.
No motorsport activities with this car. Just dd.
What say the hive? Worth the 150? Any downsides?
Never really played with making fwd handle before. So please learn me.
My civic felt much better on the road when I upgraded from a 12mm to an 18mm rear bar. More stable in the wind, better when trucks passed, just generally more enjoyable to drive.
chiodos
New Reader
12/6/14 2:39 p.m.
A larger rear swaybar is usually one of the fist things to do to a fwd to get some more fun out of it
Rupert
HalfDork
12/6/14 2:43 p.m.
chiodos wrote:
A larger rear swaybar is usually one of the fist things to do to a fwd to get some more fun out of it
And a larger front swaybar usually has the same effect with RWD.
Ok. So pretty much think backwards of what im used to doing to get the sane feel.
Any downside?
Adding to much rear roll stiffness can cause oversteer on a car that did not have it before but if you buy from a well known vendor they should know if adding only a rear bar is the best route. I would have to say it is as I can name only 1-2 FWD cars that I've driven that would go from under steer to oversteer if you added a bit more rear roll stiffness.
It will decrease understeer/increase oversteer. Usually they've got way too much under dialed in from the factory for anybody with any clue what they're doing, but going from 16mm to 22mm is a big jump.
mancha
New Reader
12/6/14 7:10 p.m.
It's the first/only mod I've made on my 2005 mustang GT. I went from the factory 2005 20mm rear bar to a factory 2012 24mm rear bar. Made the car much more fun to toss around.
How is the rest of the suspension? I have Mazdaspeed springs on GR2 struts (.75" drop) and stock rear bar. I think Mazda got the balance right with this car.
Really fun driving car. If only it had 30 more hp!
Hell, my car didn't even have a rear sway bar stock. I put the progress bar on it and it really made a huge difference. Much more fun.
I had the Progress 22mm bar on my ZX2SR.
It was fine for a track day, really made the car throttle steerable. It was kind of stiff and making the back more like a twist beam.
For daily driving , I found a 19mm bar more pleasant.
The can be found on various Escorts and probably Protege's.
