Top front and rear sway bar options

[booboo0809]

Sup guys,

I have been wanting to get a new sway bar for the front and rear of my car and was hoping for some suggestions/ pictures. I saw the ones on protegegarage for 89.95 ea. not a bad deal. What are you guys all running and where are you guys ordering them from?

Thanks!

 

[808MP5]

Front Strut Bar
- GT Spec If You Can Find One
- Cusco
- AWR Has A Three Point Strut Bar

Front Sway Bar
- RacingBeat Off Of A MSP

Rear Swaybar
- AWR
- Progress
- RacingBeat Off A MSP

Rear Strut Tower Bar
- GT Spec If You Can Find One
- A Universal One That Fits The MX6

 

[JDM323J48]

front strut bar
-autoexe three point bar if you can find one.

front lower control arm brace
-autoexe
-gt spec

many others available but not sure of quality.

 

[booboo0809]

protegegarage has this mazdaspeed kit for 360. What do you think? it was under the protege 5 section so I assume so. Do these kits usually come with bushings as well or should I look into those as well?

http://www.protegegarage.com/445-product-445.html

 

[i12drivemyMP5]

You can find those cheaper in FS section. There is much pain and not much to gain from swapping the front sway. I have GTSpec front stb, rr stb, ladder brace, trailing arms & rr reinforcement panel for v braces with Tokico Illuminas and Progress rr sway..........Never have even thought of messing with front sway, handling is perfectly balanced....for me. IIRC, others have mentioned the front one inducing........was it understeer or oversteer? Cannot remember which.


The MX-6 rr stb is a nice budget piece. Had that one before getting the GTSpec rr stb. The brackets need smaller hole in side panels and it did make noticeable difference to having none. Only big difference in the GTSpec is that it matches all the other GTSpec stuff, no noticeable gain over the MX-6. Is purtier tho, lol.

 

[njaremka]

keep the stock front upper strut bar, its just as good (if not better) than the aftermarket ones - unless you can find a 3-point version.

front sway bar is a b**** to replace, so skip that one.

rear sway bar: get the progress bar, or try to find a clunk fix kit so you can mount an MSP bar. don't bother with the MSP bar if you can't find clunk fix brackets.

for a rear strut tower bar, be aware that you will have to cut your trim panels to get one to fit. if you are good with that, then any cheap bar will be better than nothing.