Having trouble putting together the mounts for the rear suspension techniques sway bar... thinking that the hardware they sent me may not have been machined correctly because I cant get the damn thing to mount.

I'm hoping someone here might be able to post a picture of their st bar in the rear focusing on the mounting point so that I can confirm if i'm doing it right and its a hardware problem, not a dumb mechanic problem =D.

I'm thinking that the holes were improperly drilled on the flat square plates in the kit because they dont want to line up with anything, but before I make a new plate I just want to make sure that i'm not just missing somethin obvious. Thanks so much!

 

You may already know this, but I didn't. ST make two different sets of sways for the FC, one for the S4s and one for the S5s
If you look at a pic of the two side-by-side, the rear is a little different.

 

I did know that, meant to grab the part # off the bar before work today to compare it with mazdatrix numbers and make sure I have the right bar but i was running late and forgot, lol. I'll double check tonight, but from what I can see the bar will fit, and its the same shape as the gxl bar that came off the car.

Its not the bar fitting or the endlinks matching thats giving me headachs, its the actual mounting of the bar onto the chassis using the supplied square plate, rectangular plate, U plate and hardware. The holes on the square plate simply dont match up to anything. I think I could make the stock rear mounts work but they may flex more and not be as solid as the (shiny ) rear mounts included in the kit.