Official F-sport Sway Bar Thread!
08-20-10, 08:08 PM
#392
^^^^Hi Darrel
One reason is it's not in the current F-Sport catalog. Another is that it has become extremely hard to find the past 2 or 3 months. The third reason is that Lexus has (for 2010) come out with an AWD kit that comes with both the front and rear sway bars, and the front bar is specific to the AWD model. Do you know something different?
Lou
One reason is it's not in the current F-Sport catalog. Another is that it has become extremely hard to find the past 2 or 3 months. The third reason is that Lexus has (for 2010) come out with an AWD kit that comes with both the front and rear sway bars, and the front bar is specific to the AWD model. Do you know something different?
Lou
08-20-10, 08:38 PM
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Getting my F-Sport sway bars installed tomorrow on a 2010 IS250 RWD
All the pictures I've found online of the front sway bar have a bracket welded to one end (both F-Sport and OEM.) The front bar I got from Sewell doesn't and snapping photos under my car I'm pretty sure the OEM bar on my car don't have them either. Surprised this has never come up before.
Am I crazy and/or getting terrible angles with the camera and missing something?
Update: I wasn't crazy. The 2010 IS250 RWD oem front sway bar lacks the brackets too (in other words it's symmetrical.) Really impressed with the sway bars so far. Ride is 10% bumpier, but body roll is down about 80%.
All the pictures I've found online of the front sway bar have a bracket welded to one end (both F-Sport and OEM.) The front bar I got from Sewell doesn't and snapping photos under my car I'm pretty sure the OEM bar on my car don't have them either. Surprised this has never come up before.
Am I crazy and/or getting terrible angles with the camera and missing something?
Update: I wasn't crazy. The 2010 IS250 RWD oem front sway bar lacks the brackets too (in other words it's symmetrical.) Really impressed with the sway bars so far. Ride is 10% bumpier, but body roll is down about 80%.
Last edited by cmky3; 08-22-10 at 03:19 PM.
08-22-10, 08:52 AM
#395
Pole Position
Someone who installed the Fsport sway bar and replaced it by performance sway bar from lexus asia.
http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/kuan-yi/a...333&l=f&fid=18
Use google translation in order to understand the writing (unless you do read chinese)
Base information:
Stock sway bars:
front 27.2mm
rear 15mm
Fsport bars:
front 28.6mm
rear 19mm
Performance swaybar:
front 28.6 (stock isf bar?)
rear 17mm (might be the ISF rear bar?)
result of replacing the Fsport sway bar with the performance swaybar was not really noticable. The cornerning abilities are identical. Therefore, The price of the performance sway bar is way less)
http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/kuan-yi/a...333&l=f&fid=18
Use google translation in order to understand the writing (unless you do read chinese)
Base information:
Stock sway bars:
front 27.2mm
rear 15mm
Fsport bars:
front 28.6mm
rear 19mm
Performance swaybar:
front 28.6 (stock isf bar?)
rear 17mm (might be the ISF rear bar?)
result of replacing the Fsport sway bar with the performance swaybar was not really noticable. The cornerning abilities are identical. Therefore, The price of the performance sway bar is way less)
08-24-10, 12:06 PM
#396
Initially the published numbers from Lexus were this:
Front Rear
IS250 46.6% 42.8%
IS350 6.3% 151.5%
now.. on fsport.com it says:
Front Rear
IS250 46.6% 6.3%
IS350 42.8% 151.5%
what to believe???
I already ordered the rear bar too(2010' is350) should I order the front too?
Front Rear
IS250 46.6% 42.8%
IS350 6.3% 151.5%
now.. on fsport.com it says:
Front Rear
IS250 46.6% 6.3%
IS350 42.8% 151.5%
what to believe???
I already ordered the rear bar too(2010' is350) should I order the front too?
08-24-10, 02:24 PM
#397
It also provides a strong rationale for IS350 owners to get not only the rear sway bar, but the front F-sport sway bar as well.
08-24-10, 02:38 PM
#398
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sus...o-is250-2.html
08-27-10, 08:29 AM
#399
Pole Position
FYI
ISF rear sway bar will not fit on NON US SPEC ISx50!!
The sparewheel is still a bottleneck, You can fit the Rear bar but it will hit the Sparewheel when loaded.
I think the only swaybar that would fit, is the JUN-TW
ISF rear sway bar will not fit on NON US SPEC ISx50!!
The sparewheel is still a bottleneck, You can fit the Rear bar but it will hit the Sparewheel when loaded.
I think the only swaybar that would fit, is the JUN-TW
08-27-10, 01:39 PM
#401
One reason is it's not in the current F-Sport catalog. Another is that it has become extremely hard to find the past 2 or 3 months. The third reason is that Lexus has (for 2010) come out with an AWD kit that comes with both the front and rear sway bars, and the front bar is specific to the AWD model. Do you know something different? Lou
Darrel
08-27-10, 03:16 PM
#402
Pole Position
Yes It has the bend and it will just fit, but there is no room for the sway bar to move, so it will just hit the sparewheel. You've got the ISF where there is still some room left, but the EURO IS250 has very limited space and the bend of the sway bar is different.
Please look at the bend on this:
EURO ISF DOES have the same bar as your picture, sparewheel isn't a full size, but the IS250/220D, is.
Please look at the bend on this:
EURO ISF DOES have the same bar as your picture, sparewheel isn't a full size, but the IS250/220D, is.
?
08-27-10, 11:59 PM
#405
He initially had just the F-sport rear sway bar but said it felt odd/unstable to him in one way or another, and that adding the F-sport front sway bar alleviated this problem (IS350)
Based on what Vince said, and assuming that these new figures are true - it would make sense for all IS350 owners to have both the front and rear F-sport sway bars instead of just the rear.