Got a set of bigger swaybars fitted by whiteline suspension yesterday to the XR6. 60% bigger at the front and 80% bigger at the rear. WOW what an improvement, its pretty much removed almost all of the understeer. Ride quality feels the same, couldn't notice any more bumps or harshness in the ride. Cornering is absolutely brilliant, car has a lot less roll. I recommend new sway bars to anyone who wants better cornering without sacrificing ride quality.
Yep new bushes with the bars. Not sure what the normal price is, i got them really cheap because my mate works there, and they wanted an XR to measure up suspension specs. It was kind of a trade off. I think the kit front and rear with bushes is normally about $500 fitted. (i could be wrong on the price)
I would have thought any aftermarket suspension supplier would have a test mule that they developed the kits on. Why did they need to measure your car?
Thankyou Falchoon for the sizes,i have checked out the whiteline pages,all i want to know is if the 30mm sway bar is too big for a normal street upgrade???
The bars are pretty large... are the mounts up to the task? Last time I spoke with someone at whiteline, they admitted to me that some people that had the biggest bars on their ED/EFs had the mounts break... one would hope the mounts on BAs are stronger
Lets hope they are stronger, the falcon has come a long way since the days of the EB. We'll just have to wait and see. Whiteline are a world wide distributor of suspension components, they also have a good reputation for what they do. I can't imagine having too many problems with the new bars. In a worse case scenario i can always refit the old bars if problems should arise.
Hey.. don't shoot the messenger, this was first-hand info past onto me by someone *at whiteline* .. he told me they'd had cases with broken mounts for falcons fitted with the biggest swaybar they sold.
Seriously though, I asked about longer rear upper arms for my EF... we all know they were still too short and weren't rectified until EL (or EF XR if your budget stretched that far at the time). They said longer rear uppers were competely unnecessary on EFs, standard item was fine..... so forgive me if I take any claims as to their expertise with some salt.
You don't have to be a suspension engineer to understand simple physics and geometry!
Your thoughts on mount strength are based on speculation on a model that was released over 10 years ago. Sure you may understand simple physics and geometry, but facts are what count, so lets just see how it goes.
I might be wrong, but I thought that designing new suspension components would require a fair bit of testing ie at the track and on the road to get the balance right.
Are you saying that whiteline designed these swaybars without needing this ie just measured up the mount points.
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