how important is a rear sway bar for normal driving?

cgneon · Post by **cgneon** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 6:12 am

how important is a rear sway bar for short trips normal town/city/some highway driving.. nothing crazy..

reason i ask is i have a stock rear sway on my 2001, and theres sxt struts FS on here i wanna pick up since they have alot lower miles, so i wanna get them as spares, or just replace and keep the others as spares... but the sxt ones do not have the swaybar tabs...

so srsly, how much of a difference is there gonna be? im also on 205/40/17 so like a 7.5-8"wide rubber.. and i plan on lowering 1.5-1.8" and i do have front and rear strut tower bars on there now.

thx lemme know.... (i guess i could just take the rear bar off and see... might have to try that.)

r/tguy02 · Post by **r/tguy02** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 7:46 am

the swaybar is more for control when cornering, some neons didnt even come with one in the rear, so if you just DD the neon. I wouldnt worry about having one. just my .02

hansken_yo · Post by **hansken_yo** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 12:12 pm

if you drive even remotely spiritedly you'll want the sway bars...

Caraudioholic24 · Post by **Caraudioholic24** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 12:46 pm

there use to be someone who made the sway bar brackets to fit the swaybar on. I cant find the link at the moment but im sure someone will chime in

DoubtedNeon · Post by **DoubtedNeon** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 12:53 pm

if they do i need a pair

Caraudioholic24 · Post by **Caraudioholic24** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 12:58 pm

found it

viewtopic.php?t=33434&highlight=rear+sway+bar+mounts

ltr450r · Post by **ltr450r** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:25 pm

definitely put the sway bar on.. mine didn't have one and i hated it.. any little curve in the road made it feel like you were going to fall out the door.. it makes regular driving so much nicer without all the body roll

OB · Post by OB » Fri Mar 19, 2010 2:11 pm

It doesn't need to be on. The car will drive completely fine and will actually be a bit safer since you'd be taking away it's (albeit small) tendency to oversteer.

Why not buy a set of Tokico HP struts instead of used stockers if you plan to lower it? You can keep the sway bar, and you'll be good for like 4-5 years strut wise, even with a drop. The stock struts won't last nearly as long. It's a no brainer.

dblsg · Post by **dblsg** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 4:04 pm

totally

cgneon · Post by **cgneon** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 4:48 am

OB wrote:It doesn't need to be on. The car will drive completely fine and will actually be a bit safer since you'd be taking away it's (albeit small) tendency to oversteer.

Why not buy a set of Tokico HP struts instead of used stockers if you plan to lower it? You can keep the sway bar, and you'll be good for like 4-5 years strut wise, even with a drop. The stock struts won't last nearly as long. It's a no brainer.

blues are around 280-300 , cant swing it atm...

heydockyle · Post by **heydockyle** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 12:05 pm

I don't have one on. And when I went to put it on i found out i put my rear struts on backwards(Right on left, left on right) lol.

OB · Post by OB » Sat Mar 20, 2010 1:26 pm

You did fix that right?

heydockyle · Post by **heydockyle** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 2:42 pm

OB wrote: You did fix that right?

Nope. Still like that lol. Don't wear the tires funny or drive funny. Been like that for about a year. I'll get around to it some day.

LilSparkPlug · Post by **LilSparkPlug** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 8:45 am

I don't have one and had considered getting one using the brackets a member on here used to make. But...he doesn't make them anymore, so that was the first issue. Secondly I didn't feel like buying new struts. But most of all, although the car felt like it was tipping in corners prior to me lowering it (I'm used to my SRT) it's much better now. I don't see a need for one on a daily driver...after all if there was a need we all would have them factory.

cgneon · Post by **cgneon** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 10:19 am

tyvm for all the input

bigbird · Post by **bigbird** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 3:25 pm

or do this:

viewtopic.php?t=11881

Of course I don't recommend using stock SXT struts for lowering...they wont last!

FAC3L3SS · Post by **FAC3L3SS** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 3:33 pm

For many of us, our Neon is our only car, so our daily is also our fun car.

sidepipe87 · Post by **sidepipe87** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 3:55 pm

FAC3L3SS wrote:For many of us, our Neon is our only type of car, so our daily is not our fun car.

fixed!

FAC3L3SS · Post by **FAC3L3SS** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 4:16 pm

Lul. Thx word removed.

bad word, don't use it -racer12306

NickKo · Post by **NickKo** » Sun Mar 28, 2010 10:15 am

ltr450r wrote:definitely put the sway bar on.. mine didn't have one and i hated it.. any little curve in the road made it feel like you were going to fall out the door.. it makes regular driving so much nicer without all the body roll

OB wrote:It doesn't need to be on. The car will drive completely fine and will actually be a bit safer since you'd be taking away it's (albeit small) tendency to oversteer.

My suggestion to anyone who wants to add a rear sway bar, on a Neon that does not have one, is to also add a heavier front sway bar, to 'even things out', otherwise you could end up with some oversteer, like OB said.

- Nick

Post by **occasional demons** » Sun Mar 28, 2010 7:42 pm

LilSparkPlug wrote: But most of all, although the car felt like it was tipping in corners prior to me lowering it .

Even with the sway they do that. Getting that "cat in heat" rear end down, is one of the best gains in handling you can do. I hated the curved on/off ramps before dropping. It is like the car is going to plow over onto the fender, if you pushed it any harder.