Whiteline rear sway bar

[imek]

Hi,

Is there anyone using Whiteline rear swaybar?

Any opinion on this? Is it worth the money?

[CHA54]

http://au.toyotaownersclub.com/forums/inde...topic=360&st=25

There's a lot better mods you can do for your money. I'd suggest you speak to a real suspension shop (a real suspension shop does NOT include places like pedders, midas etc), preferably one that doesn't sell whiteline stuff and ask their opinion on what changing that tube will do. If you ask any retailer (whiteline, rev racegear, etc etc) they will always be chasing the sale "yeah mate, that will make your car handle better for sure!". Ask yourself this question... "how do retailers make a living?"

The hard part is finding an honest suspension specialist, but you can usually find one by speaking to people at your local track days etc, ask the guys with modded cars putting down the best times.

Edited October 6, 2004 by rollamods

[ZEEROLLA]

Hi,

Is there anyone using Whiteline rear swaybar?

Any opinion on this? Is it worth the money?

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Some guys here have Whiteline rear swaybar and TRD rear swaybar and they all say it makes a difference. I am getting mine for $190 which i think is the best BFYB handling mod, and very easy to install. The main difference i was told is in the weight of the bar and the Whiteline bar is 2mm thicker and much heavier than the stock swaybar. It will hold the rear end of the car down better and reduce weight transfer to the front hence the front end will have more traction=less understeer. I have a Whiteline strutbar and even that made a noticeable difference to the steering response of the car so i am confident about the rear sway bar. After driving the car at Wakefield Park, i have found that the Stivo's major weaknesses in handling are excessive body-roll, understeer and loss of inside front wheel traction on acceleration. The rear swaybar will improve all these factors. Look at the pics in Meet/Event section to see the major difference in cornering attitude between Dave's car and mine. His setup is really quite good and the car sits really flat even when pushing very hard through corners. Even QD180 who drives the PugGti180 was impressed by Daves's setup when he sat in his Stivo for quite a few hot laps, with me tagging closely behind of course:P .

Zee

[surfwagon]

Firstly Happy New Year evryone.

I know this is an old thread but thought I would ad my views and other info re my new 22mm Whiteline rear swaybar.

Firstly aside from what some people say about these when used with stock suspension, there is a noticable difference in how the car now handles and steers.

Both for the better.

But I did have a little fitting problem.

Aside from the torque settings which need a pipe on a breaker bar to both undo and tighten the new bar wasn't quite long enough for the bolts to fit.

Then I remembered an old trick I've used to fit bearing collets on old Holden (pre 78) axles with out a press.

We would place the collets in saucepan and boil them for about 5 mins then remove from pan and slide them down a cold axle wait a couple of mins for the collet to cool, a final tap to make sure it was secure and the collet would have cooled and shrunk to a tight interference fit.

Never had one let go.

Back to the rear sway bar, I placed it in the sun and also poured boiling water over it and after about 20mins in 30+ summer sun and a few jugs of boiling water the bolt holes lined up.

Did need gloves to pick it up and push into the cross beam.

Cheers.

[jonnnnnnnnnnnno]

i have the whiteline sway bar and hand on hart one of the best mods i have done best mod for buck i would say.

[2zz corolla]

i have the whiteline sway bar and hand on hart one of the best mods i have done best mod for buck i would say.

So there really that good hey, would you guys recommend getting a front strut bar with a white line rear sway or is there no need..... just don’t want my car over steering as I quite like the feeling of understeer (so easy to correct ;P)

[CME-LFT]

Got the whiteline front strut as my first ever mod. Did feel better control front end, front of the car felt more secure to the ground, worth getting it as well i reckon.

[DreadAngel]

Stivo's front end that loose?! If a Front Strut does that much difference o.O

If you don't want the car to give you lift off oversteer happiness/browness then you have to match the rear sway with the appropriate front sway. Mismatched sways give you either chronic understeer, exciting and excessive lift off oversteer or generally a misery to drive =) You'll have to speak with people that have setups to find the right setup for you ;)

[hAmZ]

whiteline say they about $250 on their site.

how thick are the ultra racing ones?

http://www.ultraracingaustralia.com/page22.htm

they are 200 + postage on their site

or any trd ones in aus..?

[Damnfuzz]

2 thumbs way up for the Whiteline rear sway bar. Running it on my Sportivo and it makes a world of difference.

Adrian

[2zz corolla]

whats the thickness of the standard sway bar on the stivo any way , starting to look at this pretty seriously probs get one in a couple of months. cant wait to drive my car and not feel sea sick when i get out of it. ;) jokes. got to love the corollas boat like handling ;)

[CME-LFT]

19mm