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Old 09-04-2007, 02:33 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Which mod should I do first?

I am ready to help out the suspension on my 2007 lx sedan...I have already upgraded to Si tires/wheels and running Nexen N3000 225/45/17 tires. My question is which mod should I do first?
Installing new lowering springs (Eibach prokit or Tein H Techs)
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Install Front and Rear Si sway bars?

I will eventually do both mods...but wanting to do something now to help body roll and overall handling?
Any thoughts/opinions are greatly appreciated....
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I will eventually do both mods...but wanting to do something now to help body roll and overall handling?

Body roll is No indication of how well or poorly a car handles...Read the stickies, If anything only do the rear SI bar
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Lowering springs itself on stock dampers itself don't serve too much of a gain. They're more so for cosmetic and removing that wheel gap.
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ok...so body roll does not mean a car doesn't handle well...but this car has more body roll than any other car I've ever owned and it needs to be resolved...and it feels terrible turning into a corner...so an Si rsb will resolve most of the body roll?
What about eibach pro kit? where will this help? (other than the car being lower)
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Yodums...you posted a minute earlier to answer this question...thank you...
Any opinions on the Si front sway bar...?
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Si FSB will do more harm than good....
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To slightly expand on that, I have attached a quote from the sticky on the top written by, Highrev1:

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The stiffer end of a vehicle will lose traction first. So if a car’s front suspension is stiffer that the rear, the roll couple distribution will produce understeer because the front end is handling more weight transfer. Chances are your car is heavily biased to the front. This is why the car understeers in most situations. By adding a larger rear bar you are adjuting that Roll Couple to be more to the back, reducing the cars amount of understeer. Do both bigger rear and smaller front or even no front bar and you get even more oversteer, how controlable is driver related, and what conditions you are driving in.
I know reading is boring, but it's worth it in this case!
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