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Nice! Did u do it urself? Just common hand tools enought??
Yea. Just jack up the front, put your jack stands under the car and you are ready to go. I think all the plastic stuff came off with a 10mm socket. The bar is held on with 2-12mm bolts on each end and 2-12mm bolts at each bushing. That is it. Very easy DIY'er. The worse part of the whole thing is the grease they give you to put between the bushings and bar is super sticky. Have some hand cleaner ready to get it off. Also, make sure you have some blue Loctite for the bolts.
The car corners about 100% better than stock. My first mod was the L-tuned springs and shocks which I thought would make the car handle better. They really did not. I then put in the strut bars, front and back. Not much help either. Then I decided to drop the $500 on the sways. And it has been well worth it. I can just throw the car around turns now, where before it would wollow around turns. The whole car just feels a bit firmer. Not crazy firm, but nice. Car drives way better than stock IMO. I seems hard to believe that just a bit thicker sway bar, front and back, would make that kind of difference. But through some form of Physics and over engineering by Daizen, it works. Its worth the $500. The rear bar was much harder to install because you have to remove the end support pieces and turn them around which took me a bit of time to do. It is also more cramped in the back if you are working with the car on jack stands like I did.
When I did the rear, my digital camera was at my office so I did not get any pics. The rear is a bit trickier(is that a real word?) so I wish I could have taken some step by step pics. I may try and jack it up this weekend to take some final installed pictures and take a shot of the piece that needs to be flipped around. If I can get that done, I will post some pics over the weekend.
Wow awesome! BTW when you said trickier in the rear, is it harder or just some weeird thing to get it to fit?? Im looking to do mine as soon as I find a deal on some sways! Thanks TX!
Wow awesome! BTW when you said trickier in the rear, is it harder or just some weeird thing to get it to fit?? Im looking to do mine as soon as I find a deal on some sways! Thanks TX!
The tough part abou the rear is first, it is a bit tight working under there if you don't have access to a lift and must work under jack stands. The hardest part is removing/reinstalling the end support pieces. You must remove them and flip them around so that the new bar fits. The end pieces are kind of press fit so you have to knock them out from below then flip them and then push them back down where they where before. It's not a big deal just kind of tight and you have to have various size screwdrivers to help knock the end pieces back in. Also, if I remember corectly, one of the bolts on the end piece where the end of the bar attached had one of those bolts that require an hex key to hold the bolt and then you will need a metric open end wrench, or better yet a ratched open end, to remove the bolt.
Go to www.lexus-parts.com. Darrel over there has the Daizen sway bars that I bought for $499. Plus if you mention your are a CL member, he will knock 10% off. Well worth the money IMO.
I had my Daizen front and rear sways installed a few weeks ago and the car handles a million times better. I can now turn at higher speeds were before the car felt like it was going to loose control. A defenite must mod. for the proper suspension set up.
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