I am looking to get an after market sway bar set for my TL and I was told that since the car nose is so heavy, I should find the sway bars that are the thinest.

Does anyone know?

 

i dont know who you are getting your information from but as far as i know you want the thickest swaybars cause they work better, more ridgid is what you want. not thin, and they come with factory swaybars on them and with searching you will find lots of info on this.

 

After I posted this I found a thread where someone posted the oem thicknesses for the TL-P and TL-S and the front sway on the TL-S was thicker. I am going to go and ask again.

 

okay, and out of curiousity what is the specs on your car? type S?

 

Thinner sway bar than stock will only make the car roll more in corners. It's a performance downgrade, not upgrade.

 

The foundation for the supension must begin with tieing the frame rails together with a lower frame brace (Cusco) and a front upper strut tower bar (several makers)
Together they make a firm platform for shocks and sway bars to do their work.
A flimsy flexi frame with beefy bars is still going to shift around and alter steering geometry and more.
Start with the basics and then build up.
Any good building has a strong foundation
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eibach and comptech front sways are they same size as OEM type s front i know . they are all just more rigid. the rears only eibach and comptech make bigger sways for the rear on a type S. i love having sways, i have comptech front and eibach rear (dont ask, long story) if i had the choice again, i would get the full eibach set. but i agree with 01tl4tl, the car is a little flexy and could definitely benefit from the cusco bar also.

 

I have a TL-P.

I looked at my car this morning and it already has an OEM front upper strut tower bar. Would an aftermarket bar be thicker/better? And would I have to remove the OEM when I put in the aftermarket bar?

And just so I don't mix up the number, my TL has a 24mm sway bar in the front and an 18mm bar in the rear, while the TL-S has a 27mm in the front and an 19mm in the rear, both solid. How much thickness is too much? And how does the thickness affect under steer?

 

Provided that the front hollow sway bar remains the same; the thicker (and therefore the stiffer) the solid rear sway bar, the more the car will oversteer. Since our front heavy TL is inherited with heavy understeer, the overall behaviour will only result in less understeer.

However, putting in adjustable shocks allows a much wider control in tuning handling dynamics. Just by varying the shock stiffness of the front shocks vs the rears, one can tune the car from understeer, mild understeer, neutral, mild oversteer, to all the way to heavy oversteer. There is no one perfect setting for everyone. It all depends on the level and preference of each individual driver.