Originally Posted by burgan_30
yes it is the rear sway bar. They were calling that the stabilizer bar in the haynes manual for accords.
Epoch, does the rear sway bar help with the "left and right" movement of the car that happens during turns?
sounds like i am better off waiting for when i redo the entire rear suspension and put in a quality sway bar.
thanks Epoch,
Jeff
The sway bay helps make the wheels maintain uniform contact with the road, and gives more traction to the wheels under hard turning. A firmer sway bar decreases understeer while a weaker swaybar increases understeer. What I would do is look wait, and while doing the suspension, get the Comptech kit. It provides a lower tie bar for chassis stability, a thicker (and with adjustable firmness!!) swaybar, and the whole setup also serves as a subframe reinforcement to keep the swaybar from ripping itself off your car (Happens very frequently to cars that have put a firmer swaybar with no reinforcement).
I have one on the medium setting and I love it. It also helps the car manage the firmer springs also found in sport suspensions.