Anyone know when the Eibach sway bars are coming out?

 

I called them last week, they said they'll be out the beginning of the year. Something about not having the correct bushings till now. MSRP of like $475 if i remember correctly.

they have a number on their site, you should call them.

I went with the Neuspeeds race rear(25mm).

 

NEVER

sidemarker

 

How do you like the Neuspeed ones? I'm finding the Comptech just doesn't flatten out the roll enough....

I was holding out for Eibach, but if Neuspeed has a 25mm one.... drool......

 

hasn't arrived yet. I'll post once i get them installed. I don't know of any CL's that installed it, but 2 TL's have and were both very impressed. One of theirs broke under a lof of strain though. The other has abused his for 2 years and no problems.

 

The Neuspeed 25mm says that you need to reinforce your suspension. Is this true??

 

you dont NEED the reinforcements, as they will install fine, they just put a lot of strain on the factory mounts. Normal driving wouldn't break anything, but a pot hole hit under the right condtions may. I think i found a fairly simply way to reinforce the factory mount from looking at hi res pics online, i need to crawl under and take a better look.

 

the handling improvement from adding sways is mostly due to a thicker rear sway, as all the aftermarket front sways are 27mm. I know some very in density. the Neuspeeds front I believe are solid while factory and comptech are both hollow.

The eibach's will only be sold as a set.

 

You guys are probably referring to me. I'm probably the very first TL/CL to have ever installed the Neuspeed race bars (on record). As for re-enforcements...well normally I'd say no, but I'd be lying if I said you dont NEED them (depends on the application I guess). I've had my bars for approx. 1.5 years now and not once did anything happen to them. I've taken them autoxing and purposely driven over speed bumps with only 1 wheel, and so far there was only 2 occations where they broke.

1 was during an accident when I was foolish in taking a banked turn @ 120 (135 on the straights...going for my record)...hit a MINISCULE dip (during the turn), making my car spin 180 degrees resulting in a rear end collition with the concrete diver (end link rods broke during impact but all parts that came with the bars made it out ok...20k worth in damages).

2nd was when I had a fully loaded car (5 Passengers) and I was slowly backing out of a driveway with a larger than usual dip (at least 6 inches in depth...I wouldnt even have tried it if my car was lowered) at an angle where the right rear wheel entered first. This amount of pressure caused the right bracket to buckle as soon as the right rear exited as the left one entered the ditch. All this would of been prevented if I either backed out straight, OR loaded my passengers AFTER I passed over the dip.

I guess the main question is...would I have made the same purchase if I could go back in time to do it all over again? The answer is definitely yes. My only regret so far is buying a 2-ton jack that was on sale instead of spending a little more for the 2.5 ton one that can lift 3 inches higher with an added handle (off-topic I know).

P.S.
A word of advice. I wouldnt buy the rear ones alone. That may be too much oversteer if matched with the OEM fronts. I bought both and they compliment each other very well. Perhaps better tires might be a better purchase first, because although these bars will reduce body roll the most, it isn't much of use if you slip and slide all over the place.

Oh and uh...hypothetically speaking...if the eibach bars ever did come out...I'd get those over the Comptechs (only if the Neuspeed race bars weren't unavailable). Flame suit on! :flamer: