Somewhat homemade sway bar
 

Well my civic didn't come with a sway bar, and instead of buying one. I kinda made my own. The civic Si comes with a 13mm sway and if you go bigger than that you're supposed to re-inforce the subframe so you don't rip it out.

Luckily my friend gave me his 14mm gsr sway bar since he upgraded his to an ITR. The size is close to stock so i couldn't wait to throw it on. Got some Si endlinks, only to find out that the bolts are too big for the bushings in the GSR sway bar. So i knocked out the bushings and replaced them...



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GSR swaybar :)

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AS you can see, too much space w/o a bushing...

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3/8" steel fitting with an allen screw retaining bolt. Take the little screw ---- out, and it makes a nice bushing.

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Needs a little persuasion to fit into the swaybar

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O0

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Now use a 13/32" bit to open it up a bit since the endlink is a little bigger than 3/8"

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And then weld the fucker in place without any welding gas because that's the HMT way :6

Sorry for the shitty pics, i had to use my phone. But i think this is a pretty good upgrade for civic owners who don't have rear sway's. Total this project cost me 45 bucks, cause the endlinks are like 20 a piece from advance auto (40 a piece from honda), and the little steel collars are like 2.39 a piece, and the bar was free nigga.

Re: Somewhat homemade sway bar
 

thats some good hmt style fab work...

hope that steel bushing stays in place for ya.

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that will make a ---- ton of noise, pretty good way to save like 8 dollars though

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------ right :D

not really concerned about noise; that's what the turbo and 3" exhaust is for O0

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I thought you like made your own sway bar...not just jerry rigged a oem one.. :-\ Ehh whatever works I guess.

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funny thing is you said The civic Si comes with a 13mm sway and if you go bigger than that you're supposed to re-inforce the subframe so you don't rip it out.

but if your car isnt an SI it isnt reinforced at all
i mean its only a 14mm rear sway but .......who knows lol

Re: Somewhat homemade sway bar
 

the Si isn't reinforced either :P

so i figure 1mm over shouldn't hurt anything.


and yeah it's somewhat homemade.

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---- the re-enforcement. get a larger sway bar. dont be a little bitch. that AS-R re-enforcement bullshit....funny no one here uses anythign like that. :1

I have a ITR sway bar, lower tie bar and upper tir bar.
havent had any problems in the months Ive been beating the piss out of it.
heres the kit I used:
http://www.geocities.com/bretq/mounting_kit.html

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well i have ---- luck. Test results are in and the GSR bar is dope, and it didn't cost me anything (except the endlinks which i'd need with any bar). So i'm gonna stick with it for a while. But i'm just scared after seeing pics of ripped subframes :l


oh and it doesn't make any noise

Re: Somewhat homemade sway bar
 

pics of ripped subframes...most of those people are running the sway bar and the sway bar only...on those ripped subframe pics. pretty fuugin stupid IMO. at least put a upper strut bar on it.