Stillen Sway bar or Racingline's Strutbar?

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marcelo929
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So my birthday was about a week ago and I got some cash to spend. I'll probably end up getting both soon since im only about 50 bucks short of being able to buy both but what would you guys recommend I buy first? I know people are saying the Racingline's sway bar is better than Stillen's but does anyone know if there's that much of a difference to wait it out till Racingline's is released considering Stillen's is at 135 with free shipping and racingline's will probably be 140 + 15 shipping?

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Ricko
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I Would say buy the Strut bar from Racingline and save up to buy their sway bar when it releases. I love Stillen but the Racingline is stiffer/thicker. Also dont forget about endlinks. You can get front and rears for about 200? I got mine used for 150. I noticed a tremendous difference. Eibachs will also help in the suspension area.

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I've been meaning to buy the springs but its hard when you live on the border and everytime you go to Mexico your car bottoms out on these HUGE speed bumps they made on the international bridge. Sucks big time. I have all these other goodies I still haven't installed like the Stillen front lip and side skirts and ED's rear bumper

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and its adjustable!

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marcelo929
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got the strutbar now just waiting for the RL swaybar to come out

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Woot!

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marcelo929
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This mod bug is unstoppable. I get money and bam!! 24 hours later its spent on the car

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Marcelo, don't worry about the springs. I live on the border as well and I don't have any problems with the Eibach springs in Mexicali. You should not have any problem either. But the front lip is another story, I wanted the Stillen front lip, but I changed my mind.
marcelo929 wrote:I've been meaning to buy the springs but its hard when you live on the border and everytime you go to Mexico your car bottoms out on these HUGE speed bumps they made on the international bridge. Sucks big time. I have all these other goodies I still haven't installed like the Stillen front lip and side skirts and ED's rear bumper

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marcelo929
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You should see the size of the bumps they put in when they remodeled the bridge a year or so ago. I've bottomed out a couple of times just because I have a passenger. I'm not the only one driving the coupe so I'd rather wait a few months when we buy one more car for the family and I can keep the coupe to myself.

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marcelo929
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So I just got my Strut Bar. Will be updating shortly what my thoughts are on it after install

Update: Im getting a whole lot less body roll but it seems I need to tighten up the rear now so I should be getting the rear sway bar soon. MUCH improvement in handling thats for sure. Worth every penny
Modified by marcelo929 at 12:09 PM 8/5/2009


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