The next step in the suspension department was the sway bars. The Dinan sway bars are adjustable in the front and rear and measure 22mm/22mm front and rear in comparison to the stock 22mm/18mm. With the Dinan sway bars the car corners very flat and has relatively less understeer. The ride quality also seemed to improve over the Stage 1 suspension, but I am not sure why that would be the case. The Dinan sway bars are very well engineered and fix two other problems that the factory sway bars have. The first problem Dinan addresses is that the factory bars tend to pop out of the links when you jack the rear end up (although sometimes they jump out on their own). Dinan sway bars have cotter pins on the end to hold them in place. The second problem Dinan addressed is the tendency for the stock sway bar mountings to bend, or in extreme cases rip off! The Dinan setup welds in place gussets to the factory mounts which provide plenty of reinforcement.
While the sway bars improved the handling by making the car understeer relatively less, the car still tended to plow on turn-in. The only way to truely erradicate that behavior is by adding more negative front camber (as I did first with the BMW Crash Bolts and later with KMAC adjustable camber plates.)
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| The Re-Enforcement Gussets That Are Welded In Place Onto The Factory Tabs On The Subframe |
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| The Heavy-Duty End Links |
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| The Cotter Pin Setup To Keep The Link From Popping Out |