the clearance issue with the sway bar and subframe can be fixed. it.s an easy do it yourself thing. just have to modify the bushing pins. minor grinding and will need two one inch spacers that will fit over the pin, if no spacers. washers will do fine. won't change the performance and won't damage anything. but will help those who ride low.




temporary spaces til i buy permanant ones.



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putting the sway bar that close to the a arm hurts the performance of it.

but i'm about to gring the lil piece of sheetmetal it seems to be hittign the worse tomorrow. will show before and after pics. it seems like the seam is quite flattened so a lil cutoff wheel action fun

 

yea i was thinking of grinding the spot the bars hitting. still considering it. but i'm afraid of rust problems. after grinding bare metal will be exposed and will caused rust. so what can i do to preven rust after grinding? once there is a solution. i will replace the pin and start the carnage. muahahahaha lolz..


p.s. how badly will i lose performance. will it affect daily driving. family car. not really for performance. i will be finding out in a hour or two when i go out.

 

Try some black paint. That's what is on there now.

 

i was think of sanding it and using the liquid handle stuff. its liquid and after brushing it on. it should turn like the oem rust protection like the dealer offers.

 

why not just uprgrade the bushings like some of us have done.

 

yeah having the bushings like that with the sway bar practically on top of the a arm hurts suspension geometry a lot. what problems will it cause , to be honest I don't know.

i'd just use some por15 or some good rubberized paint after you grind it . hell just regular paint will work fine. and if your car is like mine it is just bare metal with a no rust coating , no paint or undercoat is there at all.

 

like i said i could use the bushing. but the pin that comes with it might still be too long. but i guess i'll grind the frame a little to make clearance. really it hurts it? how so? drove it today seems normal. maybe for now. didn't notice any difference, just that no more clanking noise. i scrape badly today. was the worst part. might have to rise it just a bit more. first thing always scrapes or hits is those two annoying cross brace bolts or what ever it's called.


what was the after market bushings again. and where?[/b]

 

yeah try driving about as low as you are give or take half an inch with teh underframe brace on underneath that hangs about a half inch lower than the stock cross bars. good times. i almost got stuck on a bump the other day.

then again when i removed those crossbars tehy were mashed , bent , dented , scraped , all that jazz.

 

yea i hate those bolts. it hangs lower than every dang thing. couple times already. i got stuck. but luckly every time no one is around. spinning tires everything trying to get free. just hate it when i have to suddenly stop traffic to clear bumps, steel plates and snaking. don't you ever worry about something might smack into the fragile oil pan?

 

eh yes and no. if you go straight into it unless it's a GIGANTIC like 3 inch bump it won't do anything to the pan . even three inch is lower than teh pan but a 3 inch bump scares me sheetless

 

seriously i can't even clear 2 inch bumps. 2 inches is gigantic for me. canstanly scraping the bolt. will it damage the frame. or will it just damage the bolt? cuz i didn't see a ditch and wacked the bolt at 25 mph. stund me pretty good.

 

i'm sure the same i true i don;t measure speed bumps or how low the subframe underbrace hangs but it's damned low.

3 inchs is at least that much if not more for the oil pan. i dunno i'm low.

 

so i scratched what i did and went and got new pins and bushings. so now i just ground up the chassis a little to make way for the bar. this was done below the welds and does not hurt the chassis. sprayed it with four coats of rust proofing and than black paint.







-tom

 

yep as soon as it's not wet and cold out i'm doing the same lil notch .

 

only have half and inch of exta metal to work with before the weld starts. feel where the weld is before starting to cut. should be half an inch up from the bottom of the extra metal.

 

am i missing something...
damn i must check out whats going on under my car...
im scared now...lol
cutting and changing bushings if you are low...?

 

it depends on how low you go. i like it low and the roads here aren't the smoothes, so i get a lot of long dampening action and causes the bar to hit the sub frame. i'm really **** and a big gear head. so i don't mind doing this kind of thing.

 

then it must also depend on the shocks/struts you have aswell.... i ride real low on a daily but never had any issues..
i did get stuck once on a speed bump but either than scraping all over.. nothing major.

 

well I just took the sway bar out of the xA cause of the air ride setup to get more of a drop in the front. Asfar as the ride goes its so so only time I can tell a diff if at high speed