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Experience with the Ultra Racing front sway bar?

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Old 07-08-20, 10:29 AM
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Default Experience with the Ultra Racing front sway bar?

Mine is an ’09 ES with recently installed KYBs and the 19mm rear sway bar from Ultra. The rear bar was a big improvement but there is still a little more leaning in turns than I prefer. Anybody have experience with the Ultra Racing front sway bar? At 25mm, it is the same diameter as stock bar but I am told it is probably stiffer than stock. Are there other larger options?
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You really don't want a bigger front bar. It will increase understeer and negate the handling improvements and feel from the bigger rear bar. Also the front is a big pain to install. Your sway bar endlinks are probably rusted so bad they will have to be cut off with an angle grinder. Look at how much room there is to work under the engine where the bar passes through. You may have to raise the engine which means loosening motor mounts.
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Back in the day, I modified cars for autocross so I already figured a larger front bar would create a little understeer. Right now, the UR rear bar brings the rear around (slightly) in really hard corning so I know I would lose some of that by adding a front UR bar. But the car still leans a lot - I was hoping somebody might have experience using both UR bars together on an ES.

Anyway, until recently, this car spent its life in a heated VA garage and never saw snow (and not much rain) so the undercarriage remains rust free. But all of that will change next winter.
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Get some H&R Trak Plus Wheel Spacers to widen your track and reduce body roll that way. I ran the DRM 20mm, #4065600 on my RX350 and they were great and should fit the ES. I took them off to trade it in and if you want to buy them PM me. Below is a link to the new ones.
https://www.ecstuning.com/b-h-and-r-...-pair/4065600/
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