Sway Bar Opinions? R32 Gtr.

[Sydneykid]

i need a pair of the 3 hole adjustable ones for my GTST where can i get them? it seem the groupbuy has finished.

Front or rear? Diameter?

Cheers

Gary

[Sydneykid]

Im running 4 degrees of caster so hope that isn't to much. If i need to grind a little off i can do that no prob

I was looking at these. Looks like a good deal as long as they ship to the USA

Last time i sent a pair of swaybars to the US the air freight cost was over $A400, door to door. So you would be better of buying a pair from the Whiteline US agent or your local outlet. There are now 50 or so outlets in the US for Whiteline.

http://www.whiteline.com.au/dealer_REGION....scription=North America&type=state&region=

Cheers

Gary

[battery]

Front or rear? Diameter?

Cheers

Gary

i need front and rear, as for diameter whatever you were selling in the groupbuy i think it was 24mm and 22mm??

[MrStabby]

When GTR's have a fair amount of caster that can be a problem, pulls the wheel forward and obviously the drive shafts go wth them.

I've got the adjustable bushes, but even with them i'm only around factory, 3.5 degs.

[Moodles2]

Do R32 GTRs come with factory sway bars front and rear?

[jonn]

Yes they do

[Mr GTR-32]

Can someone tell me who in Sydney would be reputable to go and get my suspension all tuned and sorted out with sway bars, castor rods etc etc.

cheers,

Dave

[Moodles2]

If you've upgraded from the factory swaybars to whiteline/cusco swaybars, did it make a noticable difference with your R32 GTR at the track?

[Willis]

thread revival! cusco now make 3 point adjustable .. mmm! best of both worlds?

[SiR_RB]

got a link of them mate? pretty interested !

[wlspn]

got a link of them mate? pretty interested !

Same here

[Willis]

Here ya go,

Front

http://www.vividracing.com/catalog/cusco-front-sway-24mm-nissan-skyline-bnr32-8994-p-1870.html

Rear

http://www.vividracing.com/catalog/cusco-rear-sway-30mm-nissan-skyline-bcnr33-9598-p-1875.html

An excellent buy at ~600 AUD .. The Aussie dollar is chargin'

[Beer Baron]

yeah cusco are good. best i've used are ARC though. still got an ARC set on my car and they come with the adjustable rose jointed links too. but the cost man! my god the cost!!!

bang for buck I'd say cusco are the best option and that goes for a lot of their suspension gear. it's not top of the tree but on price v quality it ranks highly in my book. adjustable or not is not that big a deal. unless you are super serious and want to change balance for wet set-up etc. mostly people get a good balance and leave it at that. car will be driveable on most tracks in most conditions with a good basic set-up and can be tweaked slightly with damper adjustment if you have it or swaybar adjustment if you really want to.

[Willis]

I just found out re my last post, cusco don't make adjustable swaybars for r32 GTR. Just got an email from them.. vivid racing's website is incorrect.

[Beer Baron]

yeah I had a feeling they didn't. they make adjustables for some models but not for GTR. never have.

[Willis]

I'm getting serious about replacing my standard sway-bars .. is there such a thing as not enough body roll?

The car will be used for hillclimb / mountain / touge runs, pretty much a "targa" car. I have just purchased some Apexi N1 Evolution Pro Spec Coilovers for my 32 GTR .. i believe the spring rates are 11 F and 9 R (according to some website). It's either cusco or whiteline for me, money difference between these two is not an issue.

People talk about adjustable sway-bars in terms of being able to "dial" in the amount of understeer / oversteer .. i presume however that cusco have their swaybars made and sold at the appropriate thickness that will give neutral cornering? Am i going to be disappointed if i get the fixed cusco over the adjustable whitelines? I wouldn't be adjusting the swaybars after i've found the most neutral adjustment.

Thanks for any help

[djr81]

I'm getting serious about replacing my standard sway-bars .. is there such a thing as not enough body roll?

The car will be used for hillclimb / mountain / touge runs, pretty much a "targa" car. I have just purchased some Apexi N1 Evolution Pro Spec Coilovers for my 32 GTR .. i believe the spring rates are 11 F and 9 R (according to some website). It's either cusco or whiteline for me, money difference between these two is not an issue.

People talk about adjustable sway-bars in terms of being able to "dial" in the amount of understeer / oversteer .. i presume however that cusco have their swaybars made and sold at the appropriate thickness that will give neutral cornering? Am i going to be disappointed if i get the fixed cusco over the adjustable whitelines? I wouldn't be adjusting the swaybars after i've found the most neutral adjustment.

Thanks for any help

The problem you will have is that the spring rates from Apexi are so high that neither the Cusco nor the Whiteline offerings will be anything close to matching the stiffness of the springs. Rolls tiffness is a combination of spring rate & anti roll bar rate after all.

Also the balance can be changed by camber settigns, spring rates, roll centres (read ride heights). So there is no one right option.

For what it is worth I use a Cusco rear and a Whiteline front.

[Willis]

So i should choose my sway bars based on my spring rate? The higher the spring rate the stiffer the sway bar's i should run? Why is that so? Is that so the sway-bars don't become redundant as the coilovers will not compress and soak up the roll? or vice versa?

Cusco rear and whiteline front .. to bias your car more towards oversteer?

[Willis]

And wait does that mean that i've bought the wrong coilovers?? What spring rates should i be chasing ? (it's not a daily driver )

[djr81]

So i should choose my sway bars based on my spring rate? The higher the spring rate the stiffer the sway bar's i should run? Why is that so? Is that so the sway-bars don't become redundant as the coilovers will not compress and soak up the roll? or vice versa?

Yes. Otherwise your car will be stiff in bump settings but relatively soft in roll. Which is not a very nice combination because it wont absorb road undulations very well nor probably corner as well as it could.

Cusco rear and whiteline front .. to bias your car more towards oversteer?

Exactly. Although I would term it more so as less understeer.

And wait does that mean that i've bought the wrong coilovers?? What spring rates should i be chasing ? (it's not a daily driver )

Not necessarilly as spring rates can be a bit of a personal preference thing. But I would say that they are pretty stiff in the overall scheme of things. For what it is worth mine are about half what the Apexi rates are. It does depend on alot of other things, however.