Rear sway bar?! No possible way....

[Liger]

I just bought a rear sway bar for my 95 tsi awd. It's a suspension techniques rear 3/4" sway bar. I took my old one off. I go to install the new one and there is absolutely no way in hell it'll fit under the car properly. It keeps hitting the gas tank cover deal. It is also routed under the middle bar (i forget what it's called) instead of over it. I dont see how this thing can even fit, let alone with the exhaust put back on it. Any help would be great..Thanks, Brandon [VFRacing]

 

[SlowSpyder]

Correct me if im wrong but I think you tried installing it upside down.

 

[coney2]

i know for sure that AWD uses different sway bars than FWD maybe they sent you the wrong ones?

 

[RoasT BeeF]

Lay it down on the floor next to the stocker and see if they are the same.

 

[Liger]

Well, they definitely dont look the same at all, the awd has quite a few bends in it while the one i have is relatively straight on the body of it. I will send a pic of the sway bar. I tried both way to make sure i wasn't putting in on upside down.

 

[SlowSpyder]

ST front/rear sway bars are the same for both fwd and awd. If you look at the ends they have an arc to them, That goes under the rear toe arms. The straight part will face closer to the ground then the body of the car, thats why I thought you were installing it upsidedown.

 

[Liger]

Hmm, well i'll try installing it again....maybei was just in too much of a hurry last time. But i dont think i was installing it upside down because i was placing it under tie bars. Thanks, Brandon [VFRacing]

 

[Liger]

Well, this is becoming increasingly frustrating. I installed the swaybar, i guess i couldn't get it in the first time because i didn't take the back half of the exhaust off . But i have the apexi n1 exhaust. so i unbolted it took it off, installed the bar, then went to install the back half of the exhaust again and noticed that the bar is in the way, it runs directly through the middle of the exhaust pipe. Here is a pic of how low the bar is, to me it's abnormally low....

 

[DSMSpyder99]

ST bars cant fit with a 3" exhaust. Do a search you will see many people have discuss this. You might as well sell it to someone who has stock exhaust and get an RM DSM sway bars

 

[Liger]

What a waste....you'd think an engineer could make the bar straight or angle correctl ya know? I swear....So anyone want, a basically brand new sway bar? Thanks for all the help guys, i just woulda thought they'd be smart enough to makea bar that wouldn't conflict with the exhaust in any way, like the stock one.....

 

[DSMSpyder99]

sorry to break the news to you buddy. However go to Slowboyracing.com they have RM DSM sway bars and they fit like a glove ( i know a few ppl who have them)

 

[jltcat]

dude dont take it back make it work. its real easy. We put one on a AWD with a 3" thermal and it works fine. go to http://www.cardomain.com/ride/229295 to look at the mount. took half the day to make and bolts right on fine. The car ran for another 8,000 miles with it before we started to mod it out heavily

 

[GstRacer]

hey man i dont have a AWD but i have a GST and i have rmdsm swaybars and i say they are awesome fits great no problems and handles like a champ just my 2