BowlofRice

I'm trying to find a stiffer sway bar for my 01 with OTS Koni Yellows and 550/500 springs. Doing a square 255 tire setup with RS3 or Star Specs nothing stickier. I mainly do HPDE and a small gokart course near my house.

So far I have read that the Eibach is 416 lb/in at the stiff setting. Anybody know the actual numbers for Whiteline and Swift? I'd go Saner but they aren't made anymore and no used sets are for sale. Trying to keep it ideally under 200.

BowlofRice

Seems like whiteline or eibach are my choices. Whiteline being the stiffest at 32% stiffer then the 00-01 bar. Can anybody confirm?

S2k007

I believe that's correct but its hard to say since the oem bars varied so much by year. Cheapest I found for whiteline:

http://autoplicity.com/products/2731...-sway-bar.aspx

BowlofRice

Thanks for the link!

After reading some more, whiteline bases their 32% rate on a solid oem 28 mm bar. The 00-01 has a 28 mm thick hollow bar with 5 mm thickness. So really this bar is more then 32%. Thoughts?

RAIN H8R

I remember I searched, and from circa 01-02 some S2000 guys were doing the numbers on the COMPTECH GEN 1 non adjustable, they said it was 119% stiffer than the stock 00-01 front sway bar... I believe its a 32mm bar with 1/4in sidewalls.

S2k007

Yeah the only 28mm oem bar are the 00-01 bars which are listed as 393lb/in but they are hallow. If it is 32% stiffer than the 00/01 bar it would put it at 518lb/in which is comparable to the Saner bar on soft. Just about perfect I think.

josh7owens

Bill gendrons bar or go home

I've got his solid bar with ball bearings on the front and his ball bearing rear bar is on its way to my house. If I can keep my front bar setting at 4/6 I'm ordering the hollow center section to save weight

legend4life

Why Gendron or go home? Is it faster overall than all the alternatives? Also, won't a hollow center section change your stiffness and require a stiffer setting?

josh7owens

The hollow center section on full stiff is the "same" as my current bar on 4-5/6 so I would just run the stiffest setting on the hollow bar. Gendrons bars are top notch and everyone serious about autocross has one. All the top people run his bar so yes I will say they are "faster." The other high end bar on the market has a weird feeling to in according to serveral people that have driven with both bars.

legend4life

But you will lose adjustment range, are you sure you will never want to go stiffer than the hollow piece allows? It seems many of the top people run the larger 1.375 bar, some on it's stiffer settings, above the range of the 1.25 hollow.

What's the weight savings?