I currently have the 13 mm 99-00 Civic Si rear sway bar and the standard 22 mm front Civic EX sway bar. My car's handling is already pretty good with very little lean in turns and almost neutral handling w/ a little understeer. I also have Mugen Sports Suspension and a Spoon front strut bar. I am debating if I should change my front LCAs, forks, and sway bar to those of the 99-00 Si. By doing that, I would have a 26 mm front swaybar instead of a 22 mm. I intend to keep the rears at 13 mm, so please don't respond by saying stuff like "get the ITR rear bar." By getting a larger front swaybar, my car would understeer more but lean less, right? So among the two choices in the poll, vote for the setup you would prefer and you can respond with reasons why.

 

to understeer

 

i thought the #'s in the title were your spring rates, i was like wtf!

22/13 imo

 

I have the Eibach 26 mm front / 13 mm rear

 

 

I have 22mm front, w/13mm rear and it is a decent street setup. considering going 26mm front and 19mm rear. Or maybe 22mm front and 17mm rear. However it is kinda hard to find a 17mm rear bar.

 

I run 26mm (Si) front and 22mm (ITR) rear. EK Hatch. It handles fairly neatral with a hint of understeer, but I have a B-series turbo swap so YMMV. It handles slightly better than my '93 RX-7 did, but that's not only due to just the swaybars. If I were to do it over again, I'd probably go with a slightly smaller front swaybar. Maybe 22mm fr and rr.

 

Hatch 26/22

Coupe or Sedan 22/22 will probably be better.

 

I'm in the long process of 26/22 in my EX.

 

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Coupe or Sedan 22/22 will probably be better.</TD></TR></TABLE>

What your reasoning for saying this for the hatch?

I'm stuck between the two because I don't want to go too big on the front and cause understeer and 26 requires new Si LCA and forks.

 

Well, I have a hatch with 26/22 and its pretty close to nuetral. So close to nuetral that I think going to a 22f will cause to much oversteer.

But different driving styles require different setups. I tend to left-foot brake a lot so my current setup suits me pretty well. Nuetral going in and if I need to rotate more I just drag or sometimes blip the brakes with my left foot and it will induce a very controlled oversteer.