WORTH EVERY PENNY! wow... what a great product progress! i'm taking corners like a slot car. installation took like 10 minutes. i don't believe there is any other product that can affect your handling as much as this single bar. i was a skeptic, but it helped so much... kinda weird. lemme know if you have any questions. i found mine on ebay for 140 shipped. -dustin

 

I have to agree. I just installed my bar on the 10th, and it's great. I also got mine off of eBay for about $140.

 

Yep... I installed mine last week and today on my way to work I had to swerve abruptly to avoid a 6" PVC plumbing elbow in the middle of the lane, at 65mph. Pretty scarry but the xB held the road with out complaint. it could have been bad. The guy behind me (who was fallowing to close) hit it with full force. I looked back and he was pulling over. Poor guy... he shouldn't have been tailgating.

 

I got mine from partshippers.com , great guys to deal with, I absolutely love it, increased stability greatly. I didnt remove my rear wheels to install ( 17"s) so install was like 10 min.

 

It's also great in strong gusty crosswinds. Getting hit by a really big blast requires little if any steering correction, and no panic attacks as with many high profile vehicles.

Well worth the time, effort, and money.

 

what a dummy

 

progress makes the best sway bars hands down the others are hollow hochkis junk anything progress makes from swaybars to springs to coilovers are top notch

 

just ordered mine last night cant wait to feel how much better it will handle

 

I've been thinking of getting one of these. Does the ride quality over bumps and such get any stiffer/rough? Also, I've heard with the rear sway bars, the car will handle a bit more neutral (it will reduce understeer in turns). True / False?

 

I've had mine for a couple months. Its great. It does make the car handle more neutral by reducing the understeer.

 

Does not affect ride. Does reduce lean and improve handling in turns. I only had my car a week before I installed a TRD bar last winter, but as I remember, the car would oversteer in fast sharp turns. The front end dug in and the back end felt like it wanted to swing out - overall an insecure and unsafe feeling that limited speed in turns. After the bar, the handling was neutral. The car would go around such turns without feeling like the back end might suddenly swing out and come around.

 

the fuji has it as well. awesome mod.

 

I am not going to get into a big long debate. I will only state that a great deal of ignorance has been displayed in this post. I have absolutely no problem with Progress either, and plan to install their rear sway on the wife's xB.

 

Just installed mine tonight and will take it out tomorrow for its maiden voyage.. Cann't wait to hit the on ramps. Took all of about 15 minutes to squeeze my body under the car and mount it up without jacking it up or pulling the wheels. Good thing the new springs didn't come in yet.

One question though. Was there a reason for there being 2 extra washers and nuts or is it because it can be used on the xB also? Just didn't seem correct but I figured it was because of the xB.

 

yeah it goes on the xb

 

when you put a rear sway bar in the xb dont you mount it in the back trunk area, therefore hurting the trunk space? or do you hook it up under the car like the xa?

 

sway bar is under the car like the xa your thinking of the gt spec strut tower bar

 

The Sway bar goes under the car and connects to the rear trailing/suspention arms. What you are thinking of is the strut bar for the rear.

 

so what is the strut bar for then? lol i thought they were the same thing

 

A front strut bar lessens the flex of the frame. Creates a more rigid frame. But I even wonder if the rear strut bar on a xB does much at all? It may, but the rear shocks don't seem to transfer much lateral force to the frame. But I'm no expert. It would stiffen the frame a bit so any little bit would help, but there are better ways to stiffen you frame.

Picture this... You have a sheet of plywood laying on the floor. You put a brick under one corner and stand on the sheet of plywood. The plywood will bend or "flex" up at that corner while the other corners remain on the floor. Your car does the same thing. Now.... Nail some 2x4 boards around the outside of the plywood like a frame and again put a brick under one corner. The plywood will flex alot less with the additional "braces" attached to it. Well strut bars on your car act just like the 2x4s do on the plywood. They stiffen the frame, make it more rigid.

A Sway bar actually decreases the lean of the entire body by actually forcing to outside wheel up while cornering to level out the car, which in effect, lowers the car. This effect fights against the centrifugal force that pulls the car outward during cornering by re-distributing that outward force more toward the inside of the corner. As the inside wheel travels though it's suspension the outside wheel is also forced to mimic the inside wheels movement because they are joined by a ARB (Anti Roll Bar).

There are more sophisticated systems then the Progress ARB out there that involve linkages and such but the Progress and TRD and other types like these are quite effective in their simplicity.

Now that said... A car that has a ARB will handle better than just a stock set up. A car with an ARB and performance springs will handle better than one with just an ARB. And a car with an ARB, Springs and Frame stiffeners (Front strut brace, frame brace, rear shock tower brace (?), roll cage, etc…) Will again handle better than the previous. A stiff frame/chassis will enable your suspension to work at it's potential in turn increasing the handling of your car.

Hope I didn't confuse anyone... it makes sense in my head. HAHAHA