would you put sway bars on a car that hasn't been lowered? does it make that big of a differance? i'm looking into getting a set, but i just need some feed back first. h:

 

Who says lowering a car has anything to do with sway bars? Just make sure your shocks are up to the task.

 

damn ... i'm on stock shocks ... what's the worst that can happen?

 

it would be a good idea to get springs with a slightly higher spring rate if you put on larger sway bars. prepare for some oversteer! (which is better than understeer)

 

Thicker sway bars are basically like stiffer springs, but they transfer force from one side of the car to the other. In a turn the it makes the force of the car leaning on to the outside tire and the the force of the inside tire wanting to lift work against each other to sort of cancel out body roll.

The job of the shocks is to keep the suspenion from bouncing around too much with all the inputs from spring(s)--including sway bars. I mean sway bars aren't going to kill your stock shocks or something but you generally want shocks to be the first thing you upgrade since they have the most effect on how the car handles.

 

the comptech bars i was looking at has the same diameter as stock but they completely solid. from what i hear, it completely tightens up your ride, but i'd hate to put these on and screw something up. h:

 

any time you buy a truck with a towing package it is likely equipped with ANTI sway bars, (that little mistake bugs me as much as "NOS!"), lowering is not necessary, and anti sway bars are far more powerful than lowering or strut bars. i used to be able to take turns in my s10 at 80 that i can barely manage with my civic, and the civic should be more manuevarable.

 

ah, gotcha ... thanks!

 

That's not necessarily the case. A tendency for the car to rotate can be tuned into the car by adding more roll stiffness to the rear as compared to the front, but just because you have thicker swaybars doesn't mean that the car is going to oversteer.

 

"ANTI sway bar" and "sway bar" is the same thing. All it is is a flexible bar that ties together both sides of the suspension. With a solid axle it is connected to each shock, with an independent suspension it's usually connected to each lower control arm or wherever the end of the shock not mounted to the car body mounts to.

Adding sway bars to an Accord is not going to break anything, but I wouldn't bother with them until after you have shocks and springs.