Sway bars?
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Hoshtaylor
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I have a GT-Spec front strut bar...is that what you're looking for ?
- Car
- Infiniti FX 35 Limited Edition
- Name
- Rip Singh
There are braces made by GTSPEC but most are hard to get or back ordered
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Here is the website, on the left side you can choose 1st gen or 2nd
http://www.gtspec.com/catalog/products-car/infiniti
---------- Post added at 05:33 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:31 PM ----------
Here is the website, on the left side you can choose 1st gen or 2nd
http://www.gtspec.com/catalog/products-car/infiniti
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No that's a strut bar/brace.
Nope, those are not sway bars.
Every car comes with anti-sway or anti-roll bars. Aftermarket companies make thicker and stronger ones that don't flex as much, such as Hotchkis or Stillen. I had them on my G35 and my G37. In my opinion, they are the BEST mod for handling
There are no aftermarket sway bars that I know of, I have a hard time imagining a thicker sway bar than what is stock that would not cause fitment problems. There are, however, front and rear lateral braces which will work in conjunction with the stock sway bars to possibly get the desired effect you are looking for. I do not have them myself so I am speculating on their effectiveness:
http://www.gtspec.com/catalog/products-car/infiniti/2009-2010-fx35-/-fx50
http://www.gtspec.com/catalog/products-car/infiniti/2009-2010-fx35-/-fx50
ive always wanted a thick sway bar, im not sure if there is any aftermarket ones.. What kind of FX do you have awd or rwd?
Tierra del Sol
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- Car
- 2004 FX35. 2005 FX35. 2009 FX50s.
Well, sort of. The 2WD fx35 did not come with a rear anti sway bar. I know this for fact, because it took me a while to find one. Now, I just have to install it. If only there were two of me....
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The FX50 already has a rear sway bar unless I'm mistaken. Just like 1st gen AWD's had rear sway bars. Looking at the pictures, it's pretty thick. I don't know if an aftermarket one would do much. Going to a larger diameter bar isn't always a good thing, it will result in less body roll, but not necessarily better handling. Lots of guys that track their cars run pretty minimal sway bars. The bigger the sway bar, the less independent your suspension is. Get one that's big enough and you pretty much have a beam axle. Large diameter sway bars feel like they make the handling better because the car corners with less body roll. But your suspension may no longer be working as well and you're skating over bumps and losing traction. The OEM FX50 one looks bigger than the aftermarket Hotchkiss I have on my 335. Granted, the FX weighs a lot more, but it still looks sufficient.
The big difference between a brace and a sway bar is that all of the GT Spec braces do is tie together static points to maybe make them stiffer. So it ties together your strut towers, suspension mounting points, etc. By tying them together, it may cause less flex so handling "feels better", turn in is sharper and so on. But I don't know if there would be much improvement in say lap times at the track. The sway bars actually attach to dynamic suspension points so they move. It actually transmits forces from one side to the other. So the bigger it is, the more it transfers and the less one side has to do which is why the car will not roll as much, the suspension is actually compressing less.
The big difference between a brace and a sway bar is that all of the GT Spec braces do is tie together static points to maybe make them stiffer. So it ties together your strut towers, suspension mounting points, etc. By tying them together, it may cause less flex so handling "feels better", turn in is sharper and so on. But I don't know if there would be much improvement in say lap times at the track. The sway bars actually attach to dynamic suspension points so they move. It actually transmits forces from one side to the other. So the bigger it is, the more it transfers and the less one side has to do which is why the car will not roll as much, the suspension is actually compressing less.
I agree ^
Pretty much sway bars accomplish a different task than brace bars. Gt spec braces is more for reducing flex in the chassis and the sways are more for reducing/evening/inducing understeer, oversteer, flex, and body roll consequently.
Pretty much sway bars accomplish a different task than brace bars. Gt spec braces is more for reducing flex in the chassis and the sways are more for reducing/evening/inducing understeer, oversteer, flex, and body roll consequently.