Whiteline Rear Swaybar

[Reedy]

Tired of waiting for the corksport one, I ordered a rear swaybar from whiteline.

This one to be exact:
Whiteline BMR88Z Rear Swaybar 27mm-heavy duty Blade adjustable

2 point adjustable, poly bushings. No grease points. A simple, effective single piece swaybar.

Service:
Good! I ordered it online, and it was delivered the following day.

Installation:
A breeze, took about 20 minutes. If you can do a rear engine mount, you can do this.

First Impressions:
I have only tried 1 setting so far, the hard one. The balance of the car has changed significantly from very washy understeer to a much more twitchy, responsive feel. Under hard cornering the car feels like it wants to lift its inner rear tyre off the road it's that stiff. I can't wait to give it a go at the track, driving around town you can only try so much. Previously if I hit a corner a bit too hard, the front outer tyre would bear all the load and give way far too early. Now both front tyres squeal as the car feels like its going to cock its back leg.

Will update if/when i CBF changing the setting, or when I get the car to the track.

[240MPS]

I don't know if I want to have my wheel come up off the ground on hard cornering and braking, I nearly unbolted my rear swaybar on one side on the wet track on Tuesday to try and keep the rear balanced and flat, but couldn't be bothered.... But I am thinking about upgrading them ?????

[Reedy]

I Don't know what kind of MPS you're driving that struggles for rear end grip, when I was at the track in the wet my front was pushing wide worse than ever. But yea, the hard setting is taking things pretty far. Ill put it on the softer setting sometime and see how it compares, but the way I have it now it certainly isnt tail happy, it's still tending towards understeer which is what I want.

[AD07]

What did it set you back ? I cant see a price on their site....

[Nirvandan]

$285, price shows on Reedy's link AD07 you just to open you eyes a bit more

[Reedy]

They charged me like $12 postage as well, so $297 delivered.

[Lardman]

I don't know if I want to have my wheel come up off the ground on hard cornering and braking, I nearly unbolted my rear swaybar on one side on the wet track on Tuesday to try and keep the rear balanced and flat, but couldn't be bothered.... But I am thinking about upgrading them ?????

I Don't know what kind of MPS you're driving that struggles for rear end grip, when I was at the track in the wet my front was pushing wide worse than ever. But yea, the hard setting is taking things pretty far. Ill put it on the softer setting sometime and see how it compares, but the way I have it now it certainly isnt tail happy, it's still tending towards understeer which is what I want.

Don't know why you want more rear end grip anyway. Lift off oversteer = hilarious!

[240MPS]

Don't know why you want more rear end grip anyway. Lift off oversteer = hilarious!

Better times

That's not to bad a price reedy but I haven't checked out any prices on anything else.

[AD07]

$285, price shows on Reedy's link AD07 you just to open you eyes a bit more

Thanks mate...my eyes arent working too good this early.....it is Monday....

[Reedy]

Another alternative to the corksport one;

James Barone Racing

The Jbarone one looks even better than the Corksport one, very similar kind of design. The whiteline one is a lot simpler and functionality wise, a swaybar is a swaybar really, they only vary in stiffness.

There's Pros and cons of both types, JB/CS ones are more adjustable and have nicer bushings, the whiteline one is 1 piece (ie: no welds) very simple but only has 2 points of adjustment but doesn't have greasable bushings. Not that theres much that can fail with swaybars but I would say the Whiteline one will be more durable thanks to its simplicity.

I'd like to get some torque figures on the Whiteline one just for comparisons sake, the Corksport one talks in terms of % stiffness compared to stock, JB talks in torque figures and whiteline just says its "stiffer" than stock, now i've got the whiteline one I can certainly independently verify this claim, but it would be good to know how the 3 compare. When theyre adjustable tho you can be assured there will be a bit of crossover between them.