FYI, we offer the Hotchkis Tuning Sport Anti-Roll bar set. The bar diameters are 29mm Front, 13mm Rear. The front bar is hollow and rear bar is an add-on bar that is designed to work in conjunction with factory bar. Includes greasable bushings and mounting brackets. For more information, please visit our site at:
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Factory bar?

The xB does not come with a factory rear sway.

 

this thing is heavy as hell

 

i usually start cussing right before i start the project thinking about the bad stuff. i get annoyed quick

 

i think he meant the torsion beam

how thick is the progress rear bar?

 

22 mm. Works well with the stock front sway. Balanced.......

 

the thing is great I highly recommend it.

However, now that its settled in i'm noticing a bit more body roll (than when i first installed it),

but that is probably b/c i'm cornering more aggressively or getting used to the ride with it on.

 

It's here:

http://www.ptuning.com/html/Item-Des...l&ModelDesc=xB

 

i've installed and i dunno i don't feel a thing with it in :?

but its a mod i'm gonna keep on there

 

Strange. You should not feel much until you push the car in a corner. You should feel a reduction in roll (especially on the XB). The primary difference I felt was that the car does not plow (understeer) through corners near as much. Understeer causes your front wheels to lose grip well before your rear wheels. This is the way most FWD econo cars are set up from the factory because it is safer (more intuative to correct the "overspeed" situation with brakes and steering). Maybe the extreme understeer that I noticed without the rear sway bar was because my car was lowered. Don't know. You should recheck the torque on the nuts after a few miles. Good luck.

 

I just installed it along with the DC strut bar.I do notice a differance during hard cornering.A good mod for the price i paid.

 

well the only time i can get extreme understeer is while in the snow and it hasn't snowed in a long while

and i loc-tite nuts and bolts together

 

The stock XA does have more neutral handling than the stock XB. The handling improvement would be more apparent in the XB.

I wonder if this bar is too much for the XA? You don't want to have so much rear sway bar that it oversteers (unless your a rally racer). Anybody experience oversteer with the rear sway bar???

The XB with this bar ends up pretty neutral.

 

i love oversteer lot more enjoyable in the snow :D

 

yeah , understeer sucks ****.

 

wooo-weee!! just installed this sucker last night, took an onramp faster than i have and did not even roll, man this thing is awesome!
i actually look forward to merging onto hwys now... how lame

 

i can get up to highway speeds pretty damn fast its the other slow ppl likes to merge into highway traffic at 45 mph slow f**ks!!!

 

are you all just using the rear sway bar or both front and rear...i ordered my set but im not sure whether to install just the rear. isnt it designed to be installed and driven simutaneously?

 

i just have the stock front sway bar don't feel like installing an after market on for the front way too much work!!!

 

Work = greatnees!!