Anybody seen or tried these yet?
http://www.hopupracing.com/eiankitfrrea27.html

Wondering if these make a marked inprovement in roll reduction and rotation. I have added sways to almost all of my cars and the benefit was always clearly noticable. While in my short drive In the IS350, I did not really test the limits of the handling, would be nice to know if these are worth getting when I finally get my IS.

 

hey, if you happen to get those bars would you let me know how they work....... i notice in my 250 that there is alot of body roll and it'd be nice to get rid of that.

thanks

 

My 350Z had something similar and I think it really helped. I was WAY more confident taking turns in my 350Z than in my new IS350. If I can get the body roll greatly reduced in my IS, I'd be really happy. It's the only thing that's lacking compared to my old car.

 

I would also be interested in hearing how these work out.

 

the IS has a lot of body rolls

 

Morrisey,

I would be interested in hearing of your results if you do make the switch ... I am in the middle of selling my 350Z (hotchkis sways, hks rs+) ... and I am weary of the handling changes. I understand the IS will be somewhat inferior ... but I would like to try and make it close.

Thanks,
Jim

 

Yeah I'll let you know. I'm leasing my IS so I'm not sure if I can add the bars and not void the warranty. I gotta find out first.

 

anyone tried these or any other sway bars yet?

 

$379 dollars!? That is a lot of cash for just the sway bars. On a side note, does anyone know if the Sport package has stiffer sway bars than the not sport model?

 

Not another coupe vs sedan comment. Lancer EVO, STi, M5, AMG sedans are just a few saloons that handle better than the 350. Also with the addition of sway bars you shouldn't need an alignment, unless you lower the car at the same time.

25% increase in how hard the car rides?

 

Anyone have specs on the stock and Eibach bars? I'm curious to see how much bigger they are. Every car I've had in the past that I upgraded the sway bars on, never affected my ride quality in a negative way, but did give the car more of a solid feel and reduced body roll.

 

On my A4 I upgraded the rear antisway to a Neuspeed 19mm adjustable...I had it on the stiff setting and it never affected ride quality...just dramatically flattened out the car in turns and did away with the understeer.

 

People need to start being more responsible about what they post and whether it's based on fact or conjecture.

1. Installing sway bars does not require you to re-align ANYTHING. The sway bars have nothing to do with the alignment parts/points/adjustment(s).
2. How do you know it will be 25% harder and to what aspects to the ride are you referring to?

On a flat road surface with bumps that affect both sides of the car, you probably won't notice anything unless you set the sways at full stiff, which should only be for the track anyway. It's when you go over a bump or speed bump at an angle that you'll notice the additional stiffness of the sways.

I'm not trying to single you out, dominant. Just tired of seeing many posts that are incorrect but the poster is offering them as gospel nonetheless.

 

I'd be more interested in a strut bar, cheaper and easier to install and from my experience greatly improves the handling, not that the handling is bad but I feel like the addition of a strut bar would finish it off quite nicely. Haven't even looked to see if it has pre-fabbed mounting points though, I'll have to look.

 

What car did you have that you noticed an improvement in handling? From my experience they only help a car once the car already has a beefed up suspension and so the strut bar just ties things up nicely at the end to make it just a tad more stiffer.