Want to stiffen up the handling, particularly the dive to the outside when cornering. What's the best way to do this while keeping things comfortable for a daily driver in a place with some decent potholes and such?


Will a front strut brace be enough to change anything, good place to start first and then try sways?


If sways, what's the difference in feeling between the settings?


'10 G37xS sedan


If anyones got some used, may be interested!

 

And whats the danger in the ebay sways, I'm seeing GodSpeed come up there...

 

What you're asking isn't possible. If you make the handling better, you will give up some degree of comfort. Sway bars will greatly improve cornering, but you will feel potholes more. So you need to decide what's important.

The "drive to the outside" that you describe is called understeer. Stiffening the rear sway bar will increase oversteer to make the car corner more neutral. However, it is best to fully understand the dynamics of the car's suspension, how it works, and how changes will affect it before simply slapping parts on the car without knowing what you're doing like most people do simply because someone else said it was good.

The danger in ebay sways is that the parts you put on your car are very important for both performance and for safety. Buying the cheapest thing you can find on ebay is like making a decision on your brain surgeon or parachute based solely on which one is the cheapest. Either of those are likely to work. Probably. But why would you let price be a factor in something that has a bearing on your life or well being? If you can't afford to spend the money it costs to buy a quality part, skip the part altogether and stay OEM or save up until you can buy the right one (which is not always the most expensive, but seldom the cheapest).

Hotchkis, Eibach, and Stillen are proven manufacturers of sway bars for our cars. There are others. Don't buy junk parts. Godspeed are junk parts.

 

I just installed eibach sways and cusco strutbar this weekend and i've had the eibach springs for about 2-3months and now the cornering is MUCH better but it is still comfortable to me but you do feel some bumps a little bit more but the good is better than the bad imo. i've only had them on for 3 days so don't know if that will change though hope not

 

Yes I realize the ride won't be the same as the oem set up, and that's fine, I just don't want to be riding around with my teeth chattering.

I guess I could refine my question to, will a front strut brace change anything and be a decent place to start to see if I like the feel or would it be a waste and I should start with sways?

The dive to the outside I'm referring to is the roll/pitch/yaw the car takes as I corner particularly on curves where I can keep speed up, not the under or over steer. Would that be solved by springs rather than sways & strut braces?

I live in Colorado and would like the mountain drives to feel tighter.

 

So your cornering only got much better once you installed the sways and strut brace?

 

Strut tower brace will give a little improvement, not much. Yes the sway bars will greatly reduce the body roll in cornering. However since your wheels on each side are tied together more stiffly, any upset on one wheel will be felt more throughout both ends of the axle, i.e. potholes or any other upsets are amplified.

 

Quick Google search showed horrible review for Godspeed products having improper fitment, inaccurate spec as advertised, and bad welds.

 

Definetly go with legit sway bars. Im actually replacing my stock on with a hotchkis set. Not to sure which endlinks to go with.

 

Bubba, you honestly won't feel much difference if any at all with a strut tower brace. I can attest for Hotchkis sway bars. I just put these on my G, and the difference with my balding A/S tires was incredible. Sway bars are probably the best mod for the price I've done yet. Get some sways, your understeer will all but vanish.

 

If you get adjustable ones, try the different positions.

Roads around chicago are crap. The car would be more responsive with less body roll but comfort would suffer. It's already stiff enough. I left my eibachs on the soft setting front, middle hole rear.