AWR Sway info...

[garretts77]

SedanMan, how exactly did you reinforce the tabs? I am trying to think of a way to do that also, so some insight would be greatly appreciated...................

me too. I was trying to think of a way. I know that welding on the strut is a bad idea... Could you explain, and maybe post a pic or two?

 

[Mike R]

A bracket like Racing Beat did looks easy enough to make.

 

[SedanMan]

Here are some pics I took today with my wheels still one. So please excuse the quality, but you can see what I did.

(friday)

 

[rustychops41]

This is an easy one. I had a 1996 I bought new. The '95s had rear bars, for 96 up Mazda deleted this item (God knows why?). I wanted a rear sway bar Dammit! So I got one from a wrecking yard w/ endlinks. I had no tabs on my rear struts. I used 3/16" angle iron and made some. Put a #12 hole on one side, and a #10 hole on the other, level with the #12 hole. Bolt this bad boy to the upper strut 17MM mounting bolt (the one that holds the hub assembly to the strut body.) If you did this right you got a 3/16" thick plate steel pointing toward the rear, level with the factory tab. I have since seen Racing Beats "project" car and damm if it aint the same general thing, albeit much more glamourous. I auto-xed this car and put over 300K miles on it's lame 1.5L and that bracket never budged or bent.

 

[pro5utah]

i figured i would post into this thread as it seems to be a good reference....i had a progress rear bar on my protege5 with stock endlinks and stock shocks and the mounting tab for the endlink did break! (sad2) get tokicos or reinforce....
my $.02