mantazini

iTrader: (25)

Ok, have bought these on flebay for a good price, unfortunetly the front is 22mm and the rear is 20mm, I had a quick spin and i can feel there is much less undesteer, But as i know the settings should be oposite, rear 22mm front 20mm...

As i was fitting the front one , the drop links are sitting in the kind of strange position.

The advert:
WHITELINE FRONT AND REAR ANTI ROLL BARS, SUBARU WRX STI on eBay, also, Subaru, Car Parts, Cars, Parts Vehicles (end time 25-Feb-09 10:17:51 GMT)

The link position And ARB's:




My questions and the answers from the seller...

Dear pennohrc,

Hi, have recieved the anti roll bars, how come the front one is thicker than the rear one? IT SEEMS LIKE THE FRONT IS 22MM THE RAER 20MM

hi mantas, yeah, if you look at the listing, those are the sizes that i stated, i think it is common that the rear bar isnt so thick, i found this quote on a subaru forum, a bloke wanting advice on a 24mm rear bar : "I would say to not got for such a thick rear anti roll bar, the Scooby is very front heavy and would probably do better having a lighter one. That is, unless you like a very tail happy car."

i found that the car handled superb on corners with this kit fitted. hope this helps, lee

Again..

Dear pennohrc,

Hi Lee, the thing is that on the advert u said the rear is 22mm and the front is 20mm, and this is a very good setup for fast road, on classic scoobs u don't realy need the front one cause the 18mm stock is realy fine, Lee don't know what forum u've seen the kind of settings m8, but it's wrong, the hard front ARB makes u understeer even stronger,unless u combine it with thicker rear ARB & a set of decent tyres, i haven't tryed it yet , but we'll see later on this week. And i guess u can't change the law of physics. Once again m8 , what are the sizes, cause the front looks 24mm and rear 20mm as it is not much thicker of my standart one....

Tnx, Mantas


hi mantas, i cant remember exactly as when i measured these it was over 2 months ago, however i measured them with a digital tool for precise accuracy, they were defo 20 and 22mm (in which order iam not sure)


Dunno what to do????

What do u think?

dunx

iTrader: (3)

Is your car dropped on the floor, 'cos those drop-links look ready to break ?

As a compromise sell your "new" rear bar and try an ADJUSTABLE 24mm rear bar ?

dunx

mantazini

iTrader: (25)

Now i'm totaly confused... , why the links are in the kind of position, can it be that the ARB is from a new age scoob or smthn, are there different from classic ones?
Anyone got pics maybe?

sti-chris

i'm no expert but those dont look right at all.

Chris

rikky

they look damaged from the car they came of or they are no way for the classic

JonMc

iTrader: (51)

You've got alloy wishbones, and droplinks for steel wishbones.

I had similar droplinks from hardrace on my bug and they tried to pull the bushes out. When installing them you may have noticed that the holes on the wishbone seemed better suited to 10mm bolts whilst the bush only had an 8mm hole.

You need to get these droplinks...

Subaru Impreza 2001-2005 Front Link anti roll drop link on eBay, also, Subaru, Car Parts, Cars, Parts Vehicles (end time 06-Apr-09 18:26:54 BST)

or the whiteline or perrin equivalents. I personally wouldn't touch the whiteline ones with a barge pole as they are corroded to sh!te after only 4000 miles.

dunx

iTrader: (3)

Stolen from Geo, see how the mount at the bottom looks vertical and yours doesn't...

dunx

JonMc

iTrader: (51)

Here's the alloy wishbones with whiteline KLC39's fitted

mantazini

iTrader: (25)

This is the other one.....

mantazini

iTrader: (25)

And my old one which has the right drop links i guess...

JonMc

iTrader: (51)

Yes, get the droplinks off your original one and use them. They'll fit a lot better

mantazini

iTrader: (25)

Thank you Jon

How do u think is it worth to keep the 22mm on front or is too much , i wanted 20mm front and 22mm rear, but the guy had 22mm front and 20mm rear , can't understand why he went for the kind of setup. Basicaly i got riped off i guess , So deciding what to do.... there were cheap 170 quid both of them , the only thing is he put wrong information when selling

rickya

iTrader: (18)

I would try getting money back through paypal "as incorrectly described" & then return arb's back to seller.

cusco kid

hi m8 you have the wrong drop links fitted you req KLC32 for alloy arms
ALSO THE BARS ARE WRONG 24mm rear 22mm front or 22mm f 22mm rear would do
the seller is a C*CK
cheers geo

mantazini

iTrader: (25)

Ok, so now i'm sending the ARB's back....What a time waste...

EddScott

How come your wishbones are blue?

Not wanting to be drawn to shiney things but you know

JonMc

iTrader: (51)

A bit of elbow grease, some etch primer and electric blue paint

Couldn't have the rear ones being left as the odd ones out now could I

cusco kid

what about pink, no elbow grease just new
bits powder coated then fitted with whiteline poly bushes lol


geo

JonMc

iTrader: (51)

Looking good geo, but PINK, yes I know, STI pink and not girly pink

My rears where new which is why I then did the fronts to match. I haven't done the trailing arms yet through. Didn't have the strength left to unseize the nuts after I got the lateral arms off