MR2 Swaybars

It was a Good Friday and I had two Whiteline swaybars and MR2 reinforcement plates sitting on my bedroom floor. I tried my best to resist up until then, but moments later I was outside jacking my car up and preparing it for a swaybar swap.

Installation was about as smooth as I imagined. The rear swaybar was a bitch to install as I needed to drop the cross member a bit to access the bolt holding down the swaybar mount. I also found along the way that the exhaust mount on the cross member wasn't bolted in! So all up it took a few hours to install the rear swaybar. The front swaybar was considerably easier as I didn't have to stick my hands into any odd places to remove the mounts.

First driving impressions

I have a conservative understeer setup at the moment, with the front set up to Medium and rear on Soft. First impressions - turn-in is much snappier but I think there is a loss of feel at mid corner. I might go soft at the front to see if that is fixed. I'm definitely quicker in the corners as I found that I didn't need to slow down to any less than 50km/h at ANY corner on Lobethal Road. So in summary, Whiteline = good :)