Larger Rear Sway Bar = Snap Oversteer?

[s13conv]

It's been too cold here for competition, but about every open turn I have taken I have 'tested' them.

From the suspension.com site: "You may be able to use a little longer or shorter sleeve length than the original."

Maybe Q45Tech would know if there would be any issues with using a 1/4" longer endlink.

[Q45tech]

You use what ever end link makes the bar [arms] parallel to the road sitting still with you weight in the drivers seat.

[rico05]

Excallent. I just got off the phone with Chad at PDM and he said that the HICAS has different endlinks than the stock bar so the stock rear bushings will not work. Mabye we could/should sticky this or something as this thread has some great info on the HICAS bar as well as sway bars in general.

[s13conv]

From what I understand, the HICAS rear is the same as the K's rear. The end links that I received with my K's bar look exactly like my 15mm bar end links. The bushings looked that same too: crunched

[rico05]

Would you mind checking the HICAS endlinks to the stock ones? IF they are the same, I need to hurry up and cancel my order and get the Whitleine bushings to match the front ones...

[s13conv]

Sorry... I thought that I replied already. Yes, they are the same.

[rico05]

Thanks a lot. My HICAS bar gets here today, and my buhings should be here by the end of the week.

[Darkness and Light]

An earlier post said that the car becomes too stiff because the dampening is set according to the springs. What about shocks with adjustable dampening? Can it be adjusted to compensate?

While on that note, does an anti-roll bar act like another set of springs when going and down, or only during body roll?

[jamie]

Hey darkness and light, are you that red 240 I kept seeing on the other side of the island about a year and a half ago? I was great to see a 240 amoungst all those d*** hondas that seem to cover that place

[Darkness and Light]

Nope, I just got my white 1993 240SX Fastback in November. You're right about the Hondas though, Hilo and the Big Island in general are about 90% Civics/Preludes/Integra.

[Q45tech]

Sure you can set the shocks rebound* twice as stiff as the springs to compensate for the ultimate addition of the sway bars but the ride straight ahead would be brutal.

*The rebound is normally 2.5-3 times stiffer than compression in oem designs already.