Makes cornering more tight and precise.

Need more detailed instructions for installing the rear sway bar. Rear bar has lots of clunking noises.

Overall a great product and will make your car corner very well. A great buy if you autocross your car frequently. Prepare for some clunking noises in the rear.

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I bought spring and swaybar kit for my Mustang about 5 years ago. Front bar went on OK but the rear required drilling holes and purchasing new hardware. The holes were not the right size and they forgot to tap them. Through the years the springs have continued to sag and now my car is 1 1/2" lower than when I first but them on. I would not recommend any Suspension Techniques parts.

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All types of suspension products from various makers.

Outstanding handling. Improved overall smoother ride (maybe the better quality bushings?).

Installation instructions are weak and probably wrong for some rear bar installations (drilling probably not required).

Went from a stock (hollow) front bar and no rear bar to solid front and rear. Huge improvement. Used to roll and mush. Now very tight and precise handling, no roll. Almost matches my former 1978 Lancia Beta in cornering. Installation instructions are weak and incorrect for the rear bar. Used the factory manual to figure out rear bar installation on the trailing arms required no drilling since the LX uses the same trailing arms as the EX and already has the necessary mounting holes. Had to remove the exhaust flex coupler pipe to get the front bar on, but not too difficult. Highly recommended, most effective suspension upgrade I've ever made. Put Bridgestone Pontenza 950 tires on and its a great combination.

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Lame hollow OEM front bar.

Much improved body roll, created a bit more oversteer. Bushing were a bit noisy until break in.

Did not care much for the mounting system and hardware. The rear bar uses blocks that drop it down from the body. I prefer that they design it to use factory locations with better hardware. If testing proved that the blocks improved handling they could make it look cleaner.

Like others, I too had a problem with fitment and muffler pipe clearence. Other than this, handling was MUCH better than the stock sway bars it replaced. I would buy them again.

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Improves handling

Attention paid to details, fitment is not the best

Suspension techniques sway bar kit. I was a little disappointed with the quality of the kit. First, the rear sway-bar should install without having to drill out any holes in the frame. This is a minor detail, but they should have used bolts and mounts that use existing holes. Second, the front sway bar uses blocks to distance the bar away from the chassis. The blocks did not have a step milled into them to sit flat against the mounting location. The stock sway-bar bushings straps are staggered so the Suspension techniques block that utilizes the same mounting locations should accommodate the staggered mounting heights. Also, the front sway bar hit the catalectic converter heat shield going over heavy dips in the road. This maybe because my car is lowered about 1.8 inches, but still the bar should not hit at all. The next notable point is that the front sway-bar does not reach far enough forward so the end-links require some force in compressing the assembly to get the bolt on. I think all the problems with the front sway bar can be remedied if it was relocated ½ inch forward from its current position. This would require Suspension techniques to re-engineer that lame mounting block they use. A simple work around is to cut the front lip off the catalectic converter heat shield and have custom end-links made so that the force of the sway bar is distributed evenly on the surface of the end-link bushings. I also had a step milled into the mounting blocks so that they would sit flat against the chassis. The performance of the sway bars is good, but could be a little stiffer in the front. My current setup is, Eibach sportline springs, energy suspension polyurethane bushings, whole chassis, Tokico HP shocks (blue), rolling on 16x7 rims (not sure on tire specs). The car handles pretty well, however, I would not buy Suspension techniques sway bars again just because of the problems I have mentioned. If you can live with sub-par fitment then by all means go with Suspension techniques otherwise I recommend going with another brand.

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In my opinion, Suspension Techniques has provided the correct stiffness/balance for these swaybars. The included hardware and polyurethane bushings are very robust, and seem like they will not have any problems in the long run. The rear bar utilizes the subframe-to-frame mounting points, which seem to be more solid than the stock mounting points.

The instructions are horrible, but you can get by if you're mechanically inclined. Also, the rear bar had clearance issues with my stock exhaust pipe. I ended up going to a local muffler shop... they heated the pipe up till it was red hot, and used a prybar to bend it until it had about an inch of clearance. That only cost me $25.

Very good bang for the buck upgrade. I am using the sway bars with a stock suspension. As expected, the car is much more responsive now, making it feel "smaller". It seems to be more planted now, since the inside tires don't lighten up so much during steady state cornering. It still predominantly understeers, but I have yet to try autocrossing with them, so I don't know how loose the tail end will get under braking or off-throttle turning.

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With the stock suspension, the car used to roll so much in autocrosses that I'd wear out half of the lettering on my sidewalls. Hopefully these bars will prevent that from happening... prematurely rep

handling improves tremendously

instructions are bad. rear bar took 3hrs to install.

best money spent. first suspension mod. just upgraded struts and springs works great together

works good once installed.

instuctions could be better. A rear lower strut bar will not mount on the car with this sway bar.

I purchaed just the rear sway bar for my 94 civic ex. Installing it was a nightmare. I had problems with the heads of the bolts breaking off my the shocks on the car (I guess 8 years of Chicago winters will make the car rust a little). After some cutting, grinding, and drilling I replaced the shock arm bushing on one side and put a new arm on the other. Oddly enough the inner and outter arm bolts came out just fine. But back to the sway bar! After all of that trouble of going with the removing the shocks to mount the brackets eveything else mounted up OK. As for hangling the car is now very ballanced and has the steering responce and feel that I thought it should have. Down side is some outside tire wear on the rear tires. If has installing questions email me at xtmtb@yahoo.com

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My car has: stock springs & shocks (hope to upgrade someday), stock front sway bar (with rust) a short air intake, and OBX front and rear upper strut bars (the rear somes out often for added trunk roo

beefy fit really well

Some of the bracket parts looked cheap.

I added these bars after installing Eibach Sportline springs and Tokico shocks. The bars have made the greatest difference, by far. Turn-in is noticeable better. It''s even better than my dad''s Acura CL 3.2. The car now corners like it''s on rails. Not even with the shock/spring upgrade, did I have close to this much control. Installation took longer that I anticipated, though. Mostly because the instructions weren''t clear in some parts. Better diagrams were needed. Even worse, I had no frame of reference for installing the bars. The bars did fit really well, however. Ride quality diminished a little, but the car seems to be much more controllable. My car had a lot of flex over uneven road surface. That''s all gone, now. I can now be arrogant whenever I take a corner or an s-curve :).

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Good fit. The car does feel all together tighter.

Front bar is TOO SMALL and connects too far down the lower control arm to make a significant difference in body roll.

Great package at a good price. Very Complete kit. Make sure to do an inventory of the parts before you try installing the bars. I worked with a Mechanic at his garage putting them on and it took us about 1.5hrs. The directions could be clearer. The front bar was rattling against the heatshield on the Cat but we notched out part of the shield and that fixed it. The car is already lowered 1.85" and the antiroll bars are the first thing to hit when rolling over an obstruction. My car didn’t come with a front antiroll bar so I was stuck with the 19mm bar front and rear. 19mm IS TOO SMALL for a front bar but perfect for the rear. In the future, I’ll sell the front bar and go with a 25 to 26mm front bar. Body roll has not been effected too much by the bar but the rear sticks very well. The car is neutral with the rear stepping out when you let off the gas mid corner.

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Used with: H&R sport spring, KYB AGX shocks, Front upper and Rear upper and lower OBX braces.