Well I got the rear sway bar on...great for cornering but now every bump is fierce..someone said somthing about the bump stops...were are thay and how do I trim them and will this help??????

 

Where does the rear sway bar attach under the car cause I want to buy one but don't know how to install it? The reason you can feel the bumps is becauce your shocks are probably very stiff. Adjust them if they are adjustable.

 

It's not the shocks...its the fact that the sway bar reduces the play in the shocks, and will not allow the full movement...and sorry I dunno how to stop the bumps, I guess its just the price you pay for better cornering

 

how does the rear sway now allow full movement? i have had no probles since installing mine, check ur rear tire pressure if its too high it will feel rough and hard after sway bar install

 

Well it's not the tire pressure or the rear shocks new and perfect....I think it's just the price I pay.....still love the car just want to trim the bump stops for mor play thats all////

 

I just recently had a rsb put on and I don't notice what you're describing, or maybe it's there and it hasn't hit me or maybe it didn't affect bumpstops at all I don't know but all I know is that my car handles a hell of a lot better

 

another thing to consider is the increase in the unsprung weight. this can contribute to the change in the characteristics of your rear suspension.

I would also like to know how to increase the travel in my rear suspension with out installing new mounts.

 

Which RSB did each of you people buy?

 

Progress RSB. no problems with harshness or lack of travel. Dont understand how a RSB could limit travel? But could be posible.

 

torsional resistance

 

I had the addco bar, but changed it out for the stillen bar. with the stillen, i had the mounting brackets a bit too far forward and they were hitting the subframe of the car. it was a jarring bump. if this is your problem, you may need to move your front brackets rearward.
If you just think that the RSB is too aggressive, you can adjust the stiffness of the bar. if you have the stillen bar, there are different mounting holes to adjust the stiffness. if you have the addco bar, you can move the axle mounts towards the center of the axle to make it more flexible.

 

Is it true that adding a rear sway makes steering worse?

Ive read that some even remove their rear sway when adding a front sway due to understeer.

 

adding a rear sway bar does not make your steering worse. From my experience it keeps your rear end flatter in turns. it will however let your rear end slide out more readily than w/o a bar since w/o a bar, your car would bend and contort to distribute the weight. now since it can't bend as much, it will put more stress on the outter rear wheel and will slide out. this is not a bad thing since you can control it with throttle and brake. through a slalom run, i think the car would be faster with a rsb since you are not rolling all over the place, but in a skidpad type test, i would think you would pull more g's w/o a bar. this is from my experience tearing up the freeway onramps. as far as understeer, our fwd solid rear axle cars have terrible understeer. i've plowed through so many turns it's not even funny. a rsb actually helps you reduce understeer. it makes your car a bit more neutral handling.

as far as the fstb, i have heard that it actually increases understeer (bad), but I'm not sure about that. since putting mine on, i haven't noticed any increase or decrease in understeer, but what i do notice is that my steering response is a bit lighter than w/o the bar (good). it is a little easier to turn the steering wheel in turns which helps out with my fat tires.

 

excellent advise from everyone....thanx....I cant wait to get adjustables and a y pipe....

 

I ordered my Progress sway bar a few days ago through custommaxima, so I'm hoping good things out of that...and I ordered a y-pipe from warpspeed...so hopefully this weekend I could have a nice project to work on if everything prevails.

 

To answer the original question, the bump stops are the rubber pieces just below the strut mount. Tokico ships a softer, shorter bs than the nissan ones. I used off road strut boots from autozone and the tokico bump stops and tossed the old ones. the boots were rotten anyway. there's a poll somewhere about how much people cut off if you can find it. the tokico ones are about the length of top and one ridge of the original bump stops, but much softer. there were 3-4 ridges originally i believe and most people removed 2 or so. the more you drop, the more you'll need to remove to keep some travel. always leave something there though so you don't have metal against metal.

 

Progress RSB 3 years plus....no problems here.

 

Is there a write up on how to install RSB?

 

yea at vqpower.com in the how-to's 4th gen forum. Pictures and detailed instructions. take a look =P

 

Some had said that the car's rear suspension becomes a little less compliant over uneven surfaces with the RSB on. I plan on taking mine off again to double check this.


As for the bumpstops I cut mine (OEM) when I installed Ben's rear shock mounts. I cut one notch off and used zip ties to hold the accordion/dustboot piece against the bumpstop.

 

Thanks