Hellow Honda-Tech,

This is a calling for all of those who have had or are having issues with their swaybars.

I have a front 24mm and rear 28mm swaybar. They are made by Whiteline an Australian company.

1. 6 months ago the Subframe Mount on the rear passenger side swaybar tore through. I had a 3mm thick plate welded to the subframe to fix this first issue.

2. Today I noticed the front Subframe Mount on the passenger side is tearing through. Its not all the way out just yet but its almost there.

So who has a good solution to this? I've seen other people have issues and done the welding thing and it still had it tear out. Who else has had a front mount tear?

Has anyone seen a solution like whats available for civics and integras?

Show us your custom mounts if you've got em


Modified by AdReNaLiN at 12:27 AM 4/27/2006

 

thats a really big sway bar!

that would be a custom job for preludes

you could get bigger/custom endlinks and it should help with the breaking.

are you on stock endlinks?

 

Is this a full-on race car, or is it a street car?

Unless you're racing/track driving the car more than 80% of the time, then a ginormous sway bar is a waste of time and money.

If it is a race car, then a custom mount would work well, but you're going to want to stiffen up the frame in other ways (e.g. cage, chassis reinforcement, etc)

 

I had a similar problem with my front sway bar. Both sides ripped out (4th gens tend to have this problem, but I guess 5th gens don't). I had a thick plate welded in place on both sides, then had them weld some larger nuts in place so that some larger bolts could be threaded through to hold the bar in place.
I'd send you pics but I recently sold the sway bar & the subframe with it.

 

Its a street car with occaisional track use.

The stiffer swaybar is insanely fun to drive with (when it holds).

I've been doing some reading and it turns out the prelude subframe is made of an aluminium alloy (workshop manual) and they use special bolts with it to not promote corrosion...

Maybe this is the reason for the 4th gen subframe weakness.

 

i welded my brackets directly to the chassis
no more bolts

you can probably do the same for the fronts


and the swaybar brackets are not bolted to the subframe.....
civics and integras are...so they need the whole subframe to be supported

do you know if that brand from australia has a swaybar for the 4th gen 4WS model?

 

I'm not sure welding the brackets to the car is a good idea - what happens if I wanted to remove the swaybar to work on another part of the car at some point?

Yes my swaybar is for the 4ws model (mine is 4ws). http://www.whiteline.com.au they can do you a custom size swaybar for your application too.

Shipping might hurt a bit.

So if the prelude swaybar brackets dont bolt to the subframe, where do they bolt to?

 

I thought the stock front bar is around 24-25mm?

 

a bit off topic, but does the whiteline rear swaybar come with its own endlinks?

 

Nope, uses stock endlinks.

 

im just curious of the effects the larger front sway bar had on handling if any? i have a progress rear bar and i love it to. the medium setting is all i can handle on the street though the *** end gets a temper in the higher setting.

 

The larger front swaybar neutralised the effects of the larger rear swaybar in a way. This made it able to bump up the setting of the rear adjustable to the higher setting without excessive oversteer.

It feels like the stock cornering balance but a whole lot stiffer... if that makes sense.

The car goes in next week to have some thick plates welded to the swaybar mounts.