Hotchkis sway bar question.
 

What do you guys do with the rear bar? Make a lamp out of it? Is it worth it to buy the Eibach sways instead.

You buy both, leave the rear in your garage in the corner, lol

Lamp is a good idea though


And no, buy Hotchkis

The rear makes all the difference. People who tell you otherwise are misinformed or have not actually run Hotchkis and are parroting (repeating) something they have heard.

Run the rears in the middle position.

onzedge™ has written

My Hotchkis rear is sitting on my floor at the moment only cause I haven't had a chance to through it in the attic. The rear is absolutely worthless. Personaly, I found even the Eibach rear bar to be too stiff. I'm running autox though, so my setup might not be exactly what you're looking for. fwiw I'm not even running a rear bar anymore.

I ran it on full soft, made the rear wayyyyyy too tail happy

Loveyoulongtime.

I do not find this to be true. I also run Swift Spec R and Koni Sport with SPL links.

Don't argue with me.

track or autoX that you are recommending this for?

You cannot rely entirely on what you hear from us or the internets. Ultimately, it is how you drive your car, your tires, set-up. etc. You will have to decide. If you decide not to use the rears - make a barbell....for big guns.....to help you make high speed corrections.

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I drive my z cars on the streets and highways of our great nation.

I have an Eibach front bar set to full stiff and the oem Nismo rear bar. I removed the Eibach rear bar and went back to the Nismo bar as I was getting a lot of push with the rear bar set to the middle setting. I still have under steer but it is manageable and I will keep it there until I change out my front tires as they are SO-4s and my rears are RE-11s. I think the stiffer sidewalls on the RE-11's will make difference and I'm thinking of running in 275s as well.

I got the Hotchkis bars. I have the rear set on the softest setting. On the street, it's fine. On the track, it's can get tail happy if I'm not careful with my driving. At the Tail of the Dragon. I got some push on some of the down hill hair-pins. Need bigger tires on the front.

You're full of chit! :D There is only 2 holes on each side on mine.

I think for the novice drivers the low or med setting should be fine.

For the guys who push the HELL out of it? Doing without and staying oem like in my case will allow you to push the limits.

I don't condone the driving like a maniac on public roads without the rear Hotchkis bar :p

I'm going to eat some crow now. :yum:

Looked at my journal. And I have pictures that show 3 holes per side.

Anyone got some salt and pepper? :yum: