Adjustable Endlinks Setup
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Adjustable Endlinks Setup
I picked up Eibach sway bars for the front and rear and am wondering if I should just make my new endlinks the same size as the OEM ones or shorten/extend them out any at all? I run fortune auto 500s on 15x9 rims with RS4s 255/45 with about a 2 inch gap due to all the hills and speed bumps I drive over.
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Only reason to run adjustable end links is if you corner balanced the suspension.
If you balanced, the height of each corner will be different (but actual important thing, weight at tire,will be equal).
Those height differences would mean swaybar always engaged, always fighting rhe suspension. Adjustable end links allow swaybar to be neutral at static ride height.
If you aren't unequal height at each corner, adjustable end links are a huge downgrade. They will wear out faster, than stock, make hella noise. Silly to run them unless you have to.
If you balanced, the height of each corner will be different (but actual important thing, weight at tire,will be equal).
Those height differences would mean swaybar always engaged, always fighting rhe suspension. Adjustable end links allow swaybar to be neutral at static ride height.
If you aren't unequal height at each corner, adjustable end links are a huge downgrade. They will wear out faster, than stock, make hella noise. Silly to run them unless you have to.
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I appreciate the information and insight. May just look to getting some OEM replacements then! Trying to slowly get the car dialed in so figured it wouldn’t hurt to ask. Hope you have a nice weekend.
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Not really true that corner balancing is the only reason. Even stock sway bar links cause preload depending on the driver weight, but obviously in a normal street car no one would ever adjust them so they just use non adjustables. If you have adjustable ones, there is no reason to not take advantage of them. Kinda silly not too really.
Set the car on something level under its own weight, preferably on ramps, cribbing, etc so you can reach under the car.
To really get them right, put something of equivalent weight or as close as you can in the drivers seat
Start with the endlinks about the same length as the OEMs to keep the bar from hitting things
Attach one endlink to the bar
Adjust the other endlink so that it easily goes into the bar and install it.
Then you have no preload on the sway bar.
It wont be the end of the world on your street car if there is a bit of preload so if you dont have adjustable ones it is not going to be terrible. If you did have them there is zero reason not to properly adjust them.
Downside of adjustable links is that they will wear out faster than oem links due to the heim joints most all of them use.
Set the car on something level under its own weight, preferably on ramps, cribbing, etc so you can reach under the car.
To really get them right, put something of equivalent weight or as close as you can in the drivers seat
Start with the endlinks about the same length as the OEMs to keep the bar from hitting things
Attach one endlink to the bar
Adjust the other endlink so that it easily goes into the bar and install it.
Then you have no preload on the sway bar.
It wont be the end of the world on your street car if there is a bit of preload so if you dont have adjustable ones it is not going to be terrible. If you did have them there is zero reason not to properly adjust them.
Downside of adjustable links is that they will wear out faster than oem links due to the heim joints most all of them use.
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