Sway bar up grade

[stiva]

hey is there a front swap bar upgrade i can do that will improve handling

[FestivaBiker1971]

I was wondering the same thing. Does the fwd 323 have the same dimensions? If so, Corksport has several different bars.

[Silv3rBull3t]

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Aspire sway is bigger but u will also need to drill cuz the one mounting bracket is different... And no I have not done it but I know ppl have. -Kyle

[nattyphysicist]

sway bar

Another upgrade for the sway bar, without actually changing the bar, is to change the rubber bushings to a harder material.

Nat

[Kindred]

My memory isn't the best, so correct me if I'm wrong. If you swap in the aspire control arms and sway bar, your cv shafts stand a good chance of popping out of the tranny while turning.

[IdealSociety]

axles poppin out

this has happened to me, i have aspire brakes, but festiva control arms and sway bar with extremely hard rubber endlinks. eventually just hit the end with a hammer enough to get her to pop back in and after doing that a few times she never came back out...

are there any differences between aspire and festiva axles?

also not meaning to hijack the thread but nothing bad happens over long term by using aspire brakes and festy control arms right? i thought i read somewhere it would wear your balljoints down or something, just wondering!

[Gro Harlem]

Festiva is already prone to understeer, thus getting a larger front bar will only worsen the problem.

A bigger front bar will NOT improve your handling unless you want massive understeer.

Stiffening the rear of the car via a strut tower bar or the aspire brake swap (with the reinforced rear live axle) helps a helluva lot.

If your front bar isn't working like it should, you probably just need to get some new bushings. THis was covered on the Ezboard, People were getting energy suspension chassis-mount bushings which help a LOT & are cheap and easy to get too

[ridenred27]

why are you all using the aspire control arm ,its longer i made this mistake the hard way. they pushed the bottom of the wheel out why to much to correct.

[IdealSociety]

new bushings

the end link bushings are ok to replace with something else , but i had problems with the bar bushings from energy suspension, since they are slotted, when you drive hard or accelerate hard, the mounts can move and throw alignment off ALOT... i have a pic to show...


if you look closely you can even see where the slots were being rubbed by the nuts... and yes i had them tightened HARD... i switched back to the regulars just w/ new bushings and everything was much better...

[Silv3rBull3t]

Fred and a few others also have had problems with their shitty designed brackets so reuse the Festiva ones if you are going to put in those energy suspension bushings. -Kyle

[stiva]

where can i get bushings

[ridenred27]

jegs or summit racing i have also seen those at autozone. they look like chevy pieces

[stiva]

what do i ask for