GodSpeed Sway bar kit

[NiceLyphe]

Anyone have any Pro's or Con's on the GodSpeed sway bar items? I was looking at this listing on eBay and was wondering if its a good deal.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...6de84

How about these Megan items?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...AX:IT

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...AX:IT
Modified by NiceLyphe at 6:48 AM 4/9/2010

[numbnuts240]

a lot of people are going to down talk godspeed. the same way they used to down talk megan. some have had bad experiences with them, some good, many others have none. that's all that i will say given that i have had zero experience with either.

[r34 gtr]

I mean, its a sway bar. Not a whole lot of R&D involved in making those.

Step 1: buy 1 Cusco kitStep 2: make 100 million copiesStep 3: sell for 1/2 the price of CuscoStep 4: profit

Why not give them a shot? One thing to note though, those bars are very thick. A 28mm rear bar is going to make you oversteer all over the place.

Nothing wrong with Megan strut braces. Not a complicated thing to make either.

Megan short shifter is probably crap. Buy a C's or B&M and treat yourself to a decent shift feel.

This is all subjective. Use your own judgment. I would buy quality stuff (Cusco, Ikeya Formula, SPL, etc.) but that is just me.

[NiceLyphe]

Hmm, Im thinking of trying out the godspeed set, but it i wanna use energy suspension bushings and they don't make em for 28 and 30mm sway bars..Was looking at the ST sway bars, can get a set for $160 approx. But then where should i go for camber arms and all the other stuff ect.

[Philipio]

They're arguably the worst sway bars on the market. That being said, I have some on my car due to the previous owner. I haven't upgraded yet. Would I buy them? Absolutely not.

[crakin]

ya I wouldn't get some crap to put on any car. Get some cusco or tanabe....I haven't heard too much about tanabe. Maybe someone can enlighten us both.

[poshatch]

you know that price isnt bad for all that stuff, the bracing is whatever, its not a huge difference imo to have one versus the other, those look good though, and the megan shifter is that a v2? i have one and its ok, it is short yes, it is choppy and the plastic bearing thing that sits in the shifting linkage vibrates like crazy!

but i digress, that price for all that stuff dosnt seem bad, i had those sway bars, bought them along time ago but never got them on since the ebay seller didnt send me brackets and i didnt know better at the time so i never got them on

id suggest looking for a arm package without sway bars, if possible cause imo if anybody is going to upgrade sway bars they should spring for the adjustable ones so they can fine tune their effect, just blindly upgrading swaybars is counterintuitive

p.s. i run no sway bars

[Hoffman5982]

OP, ask BlackZenki. He got a complete godspeed kit and seems to like them quite well, including the sway bar. I bought godspeed control arms to temporarily fix my camber. They seems fine so far, and if they keep holding up I'll leave them, otherwise I'll buy "better" ones

[silvia_ks_69]

I have a complete godspeed suspension kit from all control arms to all the multilink arms.

Pros: Price is awesome for what you get, and stuff like the traction rods or the tension rods arent too complicated to begin with so your not noticing a ton of difference between this brand and something higher up the food chain (my opinion only)

Cons: Fitment on some of the things is garbage, takes super persuasion to get it in.

Front Control Arms: Good so far, easy fitment, completely adjustableTension Rods: SameFront Sway: umm.. i guess it might fit with a KA or SR? Doesnt with 2JRUCA: Good, but a b**** to get inLower Control: Garbage, geometry is off causing it to fit like poo, i might be returning mine if i cant figure out a solution, my right one moves freely, which is what i want but the left one i get a workout from moving it. Dont reccommend.Toe Rod: Good.Rear sway bar: Bad fitment, theres nothing on the rear of my car that should make it this hard to install, i even have aftermarket sway bar end links..If you have any other questions feel free

ps. i bought this stuff because, it was better than OEM replacements, and most of my money is in other things on the car, and its not being tracked anyways. Generally i dont buy anything of lower caliber as its rather hit or miss, like ive demonstrated above.

[poshatch]

Lower Control: Garbage, geometry is off causing it to fit like poo, i might be returning mine if i cant figure out a solution, my right one moves freely, which is what i want but the left one i get a workout from moving it. Dont reccommend.

FUUUUUUUCCKKKKK

i got those comming in like any day now...this is something i did not want to hear!

[Flicktitty]

i had them for about 1000 miles. no probelms. took them off to go back to stock so i could go lower (larger sway bars + 2JZ + wanting to be low doesn't work)

[silvia_ks_69]

flick, did u need to get bigger bolts for the rear? cause thats where i find the issue is, hooking up the hangers, the supplied brackets dont wanna go.

[daconkiftador]

I had to get completely new hangers for my rear sway bar because I didnt even get any and obviously the stock ones wouldnt work since the godspeeds are so much bigger. I bought some energy-bushing brand ones from the local autozone that worked well, but they costed me around $25 I think.

[NiceLyphe]

Hmm i see, thanks for the input everyone, I still havnt decided what i wanna do exactly, the car isnt gonna be hard tracked, or drifted or anything..just a drive around and have fun kind of deal. Maybe once a track opens around here it may be played around with on there. But for now, nothing special, but i was now looking at ST sway bars, and Megan arms and such..Thing is the cost difference, ill be paying alot more for individual megan pieces rather then the kit. Maybe i should save for a bit then decide..Im just tired of stock and such, my 240 feels kinda wobbly and needs to be stiffer for sure..

[adrianfromthecastle]

They're arguably the worst sway bars on the market. That being said, I have some on my car due to the previous owner. I haven't upgraded yet. Would I buy them? Absolutely not.

^^ this post says it all.

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[NiceLyphe]

How about ST sway bars? Opinions please.

[sr20deTsomeday118]

they are decent for DD stuff but for any track use i dont think i would use em. I have the suspension set they offer. everything went on fine except the front sway bar which is a bigger bar than the stock one and they didnt include a bigger bracket or bushing so i had to re-use my stock bracket and small a** bushing and trim the hell out of it.

all in all. ill buy suspension parts one by one if i have to next time instead of buying a bunch of cheap shize

[Hoffman5982]

OP, ask BlackZenki. He got a complete godspeed kit and seems to like them quite well, including the sway bar. I bought godspeed control arms to temporarily fix my camber. They seems fine so far, and if they keep holding up I'll leave them, otherwise I'll buy "better" ones

[Second Shadow]

if this isn't a track car what I would do(and this is just imho) is get some tension rods and RUCAs from battle version, parts shop max, or SPL. then press in poly bushings in the rest or your links from ES or whiteline, and sway bars from ST or whiteline. throw in some rear subframe bushings too maybe, they're cheap.

this will firm up your suspension without making it a track hard ride, remove the liquid filled bushing in the front(which WILL fail at some point), and give the rear camber adjustability(needed for coil overs) using all quality parts but not shelling out a massive mount of money.

once again, just what I would do.

[NiceLyphe]

Yea..Im looking into ST bars, with Megan arms, the Megans seem reasonable for the price.

Note; The ST sways come with new links and such with poly urethane bushing and new D brackets. From what the picture shows anyways.
Modified by NiceLyphe at 12:14 PM 4/10/2010

[StandardProspect]

^Oooh you posted at 11:11

It's interesting to hear some of the feedback from these cheaper suspension components. One of the things that steered me away from this stuff is how it looks. You can just tell it's cheap stuff. I'm woking on my rear suspension rite now and was considering these parts.

I deceide to save up some more money and buy MAX risers, RUCAS, Toe arms, and traction rods. I'll be using stock lower contol arms with poly bushings and Maybe Greddy Roll center adjusters, if not sentra ball joints. I still need a swaybar.

I'm a broke college student with a part time job and I've managed to buy brand name stuff no problem. It's really not that much more than say Megan parts. I think Megan parts are overpriced for what you get, but I have no firsthand experience with any of the cheap brands.

I've got about a grand into my subframe and it's not finished yet, I don't care, I love my 240 and it deserves nice parts!

[NiceLyphe]

Lol nice, funny how you noticed that :P, but yea, i understand, i don't wanna put s*** into my 240 either lol. I'm currently a high school student in my junior yr with a part time job, just making my way through right now, Searching around for peoples opinions and trying to get some info on different experiences and brands. After i get my clutch job and timing job done on my KA i would like to start working on suspension and such, figured id get it all that out of the way before i plan to turbo or anything.

[silvia_ks_69]

If I had some extra money to spend, I woulda got my multi link from Bings.ca, they put out good products, good prices. Canadian company, I'm absolutely sick of how incompotent most US buisnesses are when it comes to shipping. O so the cord will be 25$? Ok cool.. Shipping 55.00$??? No comprenda.

But what can u do.

[NiceLyphe]

Lol yea i feel ya, some company's charge just as much shipping as the part..I was looking into getting the shifter link bushing..the bushing was like $4 or something..and shipping was about $13..was like no thanks..