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04-24-04, 07:49
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Brad B. is offline
Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: St. Louis Posts: 3,090 |  Mini gets a Sway Bar this weekend!
Keeping with my Mod-A-Week routine,  I installed a H-Sport Competition Adjustable Rear Sway Bar to help induce some more rotation and reduce understeer at the track. And because I needed something to fuss with on a rainy Saturday. 
Huge difference between the new one and stock. But the new one, being tubular, was actually a bit lighter. The bushings have grease fittings for easy lube maintenance also. That's cool!
It was a rather involved install for a sway bar. The top of the shocks come out, the sub frame gets lowered and so on. It took a couple hours-plus.   | |
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04-24-04, 07:54
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Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: In the garage(Logansport, IN) Posts: 3,108 | Good job! Seems odd how that mounts...
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04-24-04, 08:04
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Brad B. is offline
Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: St. Louis Posts: 3,090 | Yea, rather than hanging down like most, it tucks up tight inside the body. Pretty compact package. | |
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04-24-04, 09:19
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Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Southport, CT Posts: 6,667 | I agree...Interesting how it mounts.
I love the mod updates! Keep em comin!
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04-24-04, 09:38
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Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Austin, Tx Posts: 1,737 | Brad, how does she handle with your new mod?
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04-26-04, 12:31
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| | Cya, & take the care eh?
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Join Date: May 2002 Location: Vancouver, BC, Ca Posts: 5,844 | Ooooh, adjustable too! 
Looks like they went with grease-able Energy Suspension polygraphite bushings for their kit?
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04-26-04, 05:29
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Brad B. is offline
Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: St. Louis Posts: 3,090 | Well, I am pretty excited with the swaybar. Turn-in is even quicker...which is saying a lot for a Mini. No hint of harshness or too much oversteer on the middle setting. I will have to wait until the next track event in about a month to see how it does at speed. | |
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04-26-04, 10:26
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Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: BC, Canada Posts: 81 | Good stuff! IMO, adjustable sways are the best bang-for-the-buck suspension mod you can get. They were the first thing I put on my car, and they're great... | |
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04-27-04, 07:49
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Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Metro Detroit Posts: 2,005 | Awesome man! I am turning into a suspension freak as well. I took my car out driving some back roads, the same roads Road and Track and car and Driver use, and my Progress sway bar and lower tie bar keeps the body from rollin awesome! Now to get springs I am waiting on.
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