Are there any guys running whiteline sway bars? If so what is you impression with them, how would you compare them to other brands like racing beat and eibach. Also anyone with knowledge on this subject please chime in!

 

i bought a set of JDM sway bars for my 88 vert, IMHO any brand will work and do the same job :-)

 

up, anyone else got any useful feedback?

 

It's a piece of bent metal, there's not much to choose from between brands other than adjustability and size. The Whitelines are adjustable, which is a big plus in my book, but one could always modify other bars to make them adjustable.

 

Is the bar solid or not? If it's hollow, what's the wall thickness? What's grade of steel is it made out of? Is it for an S4 or S5?

Just a few questions I'd be asking the seller.

 

yea i was also liking it for the adjustability, cost is about the same as racing beat, its 27mm front 16mm rear, solid bar with 3 different adjustment posibilities.

 

hollow bars would hold up to intense stress better as it increases surface area but shouldn't be much of a problem. just a thought for future reference.

 

Tanabe sells a 27.5mm and 18mm bar for a bit more, $195.00 each (but you want have to ship it from Australia)

Racing Beat's front bars are bigger (28.5mm) but their rear bars are only 15.8mm

If I had the money I'd probably get both Tanabes and RB adjustable end links

 

I have both Tanabe bars on my FC and it made a huge difference, but the reason i went for them over other brands as they had a bigger diammeter together as a kit and apparently that makes a difference.

 

No, that's not true at all. A solid bar of the same OD will be able to take more stress. A hollow bar is able to accept more stress per unit of weight though, this is why they are preferable, light weight, not because it's necessarily stronger.

 

its so funny when people think you can make something stronger or more rigid by removing material.

 

that made no sense to me.
but i just realized most hollow bars are fairly thin right?
i was thinking of hollow bars that still have thick metal.
hollow bars with thin walls would be weaker.
but thick walls would make much stronger.
oh well. done with this thought.

 

A swaybar works by twisting the center section of the bar, and it does this as an angle of twist through the center axis of the bar. So for a given angular deflection, the outer most portion of the bar (radially) deflects more linearly than the inner section. This is why when you make a hollow bar it's still fairly strong, and is a more efficient shape. As you go thinner, to handle the same stress, you need to make it bigger in diameter at the same time, and there's a practical limit to all this, especially in a suspension piece.

 

so black91n/a what would you reccomend for a nice sway bar set up then? I also read the eibach bars are adjustable. Have not heard much reviews about whiteline, eibach is a strong well known company. Not sure if the eibach ones are both adjustable have only read that the rear bar is. Not sure though. Ive found the whiteline and the eibachs for right about 300 plus shipping and there is no extra fright cost for the whiteline its on US soil already

 

I have a whiteline bar on the rear of my corolla and love it.

has far as I know, all whiteline bars are solid, I don't know what they're made of though.

it's for an S4, but I thought they're the same, racingbeat just sells one bar...

I was planning on getting the whiteline front bar for my FC just because it's adjustable...

I got the one for my corolla from http://www.neverenoughauto.com/

they're lower than $300 for sure (maybe $180ish?) if they don't have it on their site, just email them.

 

that web site only has an ADDCO front sway bar which i wasnt even aware they made on for the FC? I have found both front and rear whiteline bars for the FC at http://www.turbowholesale.com/catalog/index.html for about 300 for both.

 

ahh, $300 for both isn't bad at all, I thought it was $300 for one...

like I mentioned above, they don't have the bars on there site for a lot of cars, but if you email them they'll give you a quote. that's what I did for my corolla.

 

If the Whitelines are comperable in price to other options, I'd get those, otherwise I'd waffle between the Suspension Techniques (using the adjustable S4 front unit) and the Eibach bars.

I've got RB bars (I'm not currently using the rear one with my coilovers though), and they're fine, but not adjustable.