[Rmondoh]

Update Time!!

So I finally got around to installing my Whiteline Rear Swaybar. It was pretty easy to install except for the fact that I didn't install it.

I had a problem getting one of the bushings and saddles to line up properly and no matter what I tried, they would not line up. After 45 minutes of trying, I gave up and put the stock one back on.

I then told Kracka about it and he kindly went out to his car and took some pictures of his Whiteline bar and sent them to me. Everything fit nicely and looked good. So the next day I decided to try again after seeing his pictures. I knew exactly how to orient the bar and everything. Yeah well no such luck. I had the exact same issue. So I was even more pissed off and irritated because now I had failed for a 2nd time. It should only be like a 20 min job at most...but not for me.

I reported back to Kracka and he didn't believe me. I told him I quit on it and didn't want to put a rear swaybar on anymore. I was sick of it. He told me to come over on Tuesday night and he would get it on there for me. So I said sure, obviously my noob self can't put it on and he has the EXACT same bar so why not.

Come Tuesday, I go over and we start doing the swaybar. We get to the point where I was having trouble and he looks at it and goes "Hmm." He tried for a bit to make it fit. Pushed it over to get more room. Wiggled it to make it sit better. Nope! Wasn't going on. The only way it would fit is if the bushing was all open looking and on the bend on the bar. If we could even tighten it down like that, I'm sure the bushing would have snapped in half in a day easily. So we put the stock bar back on.

I managed to take pictures when I tried putting it on the 2nd time. I ended up sending those to Bill @ MAP and he forwarded on my email to Whiteline. They are going to send me a new swaybar and it should be here on Monday (12/6/10). So I'm all happy again.

Well I get an email from Bill yesterday saying that Whiteline sent him an email. As my luck would have it, the swaybar they already sent me is ALSO defective for some reason. So now when that one arrives, I will have to put the old one I have into that box and have BOTH of them shipped back to Whiteline. What a complete disaster this has turned into...

So after emailing with Bill @ MAP, I looked at their other swaybars and decided to go with a 25mm Perrin instead. After doing some research I found the following:

Whiteline:
Soft setting - 148%
Medium setting - 181%
Hard setting - 220%

Perrin:
Soft setting - 127%
Medium setting - 153%
Hard setting - 186%

Kracka tells me that for his driving style, the Whiteline Medium setting is perfect. Given my driving habits, I would probably have chosen the Whiteline Soft. I may do the Medium, but I would never go with the Hard setting. Given the numbers above, the Perrin bar gives me a better offering than the Whiteline bar as I'm more likely to use all those settings. The max for the Perrin is the Medium of the Whiteline, which would be my max. So the Perrin bar seems to be a better fit for me and my driving style and it does offer a slightly softer setting than the Whiteline.

So I told Bill to quote me the difference and it was a done deal. I should be getting it this coming week and I'll be installing it on the weekend. Hopefully nothing retarded stupid is wrong with this one.