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Postby jay.ritchie » Sat Apr 13, 2013 12:56 am

Installed the Whiteline sway bar and Cusco hd mounts this arvo, just went for a spin through the spur.
Car handles really well. Massive improvement. Feels so solid taking corners at speeds and it took a while to get used to the speed i could enter them at!
Lots of body roll has been eliminated too.

As for the tyres, they seem to struggle a bit now. Theyre only firewall cheapies so i'll wear them down quickly and get some Khumo's again.
The tyres make so much noise at low speeds around tight corners, anything over 70kmh and they're fine.

With the stiffness of the car, its really easy to throw it into corners, so much so that its comfortable getting the whole car sideways. Had a bit of fun though a mates driveway near narbethong!

And lastly, the car is sooooo fun on dirt roads now. Before the new sway, the body roll really made the car struggle on dirt roads, it was unpredicable.
With the new sway fitted, the body doesn't roll half as much, so it drives more like a rally car ( :wink: ) and you can hammer it sideways.

Best $260 ever spent!


Got to love mates that have hoists in their backyards!
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Postby bigBADbenny » Sat Apr 13, 2013 7:59 am

Awesome stuff! Can u post a pic of the back of the HD mount top nuts please :)
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Postby jay.ritchie » Sat Apr 13, 2013 6:57 pm

bigBADbenny wrote:Awesome stuff! Can u post a pic of the back of the HD mount top nuts please :)


you can't see the back of the HD mount at all because the chassis sits in the way.
Cusco supply you with a silver plate with a nut built in so you can slip it in the top of the triangular chassis because the existing mount top hole is too big- so the plate acts as a giant washer.
Does that make sense?

Heres a picture of the front of the existing mount (chassis). You can see the large hole at the top which the silver mounting plate sits behind. You might also be able to make out the shape of a triangular typed cylinder.
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Postby zch91 » Sat Apr 13, 2013 8:05 pm

What was your success rate undoing the swaybar links with a ratchet? :lol:
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Postby bigBADbenny » Sat Apr 13, 2013 9:09 pm

Thanks I'll be able guesstimate based on that pic.
Such a strange place for a big hole eh?
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Postby jay.ritchie » Sat Apr 13, 2013 9:34 pm

zch91 wrote:What was your success rate undoing the swaybar links with a ratchet? :lol:


Surprisingly good! The sockets where juuuust long enough to reach the bolts.
Almost forgot to tighten them back up when we reconnected them though. Wouldn't have been good!
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Postby jay.ritchie » Sat Apr 13, 2013 9:35 pm

bigBADbenny wrote:Thanks I'll be able guesstimate based on that pic.
Such a strange place for a big hole eh?


Haha yeah seems stupid.
What are you planning to do? Make you're own HD mounts i assume?
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Postby Kekotic » Sat Apr 13, 2013 9:41 pm

jay.ritchie wrote:
bigBADbenny wrote:Thanks I'll be able guesstimate based on that pic.
Such a strange place for a big hole eh?


Haha yeah seems stupid.
What are you planning to do? Make you're own HD mounts i assume?


He's already got the AVO ones so I hope not!
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Postby owen » Sat Apr 13, 2013 10:12 pm

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jay.ritchie wrote:
bigBADbenny wrote:Thanks I'll be able guesstimate based on that pic.
Such a strange place for a big hole eh?


Haha yeah seems stupid.
What are you planning to do? Make you're own HD mounts i assume?


He's already got the AVO ones so I hope not!


Correct. He got them off me
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Postby bigBADbenny » Sun Apr 14, 2013 8:57 am

For the cusco hd mounts I've FS... ;)
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Postby owen » Sun Apr 14, 2013 9:21 am

Why didn't u sell them to jay?
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Postby shav » Sun Apr 14, 2013 10:17 am

Great results jay. This is making me more anxious to get my sways fitted.
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MY07 Subaru Liberty GT Premium Sedan | HKS Panel filter | Pierburg 3 port | Whiteline adj sways F&R | Cusco HD mounts | Whiteline HD front sway links | Anycarlink AL-1080B | Ultrex s/s 3" CBE | Ultrex PU lip spoiler | Invidia s/s dump pipe and 100cel cat | KiDo tuned | DBA T2 rotors | Intima SS brake pads | Mishimoto TMIC | Koya ISR7 wheels | 265L Kobe fuel pump | Diamond Works SI Drive dial | Bilsteins

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Postby jay.ritchie » Sun Apr 14, 2013 4:15 pm

owen wrote:Why didn't u sell them to jay?


Yeah damn, how long ago did you put them up? i checked last week and when there weren't any i ordered some from g88.

Can't wait for the next cruise Owen!
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Postby zch91 » Sun Apr 14, 2013 5:13 pm

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Postby jay.ritchie » Sun Apr 14, 2013 6:28 pm

zch91 wrote:http://forum.liberty.asn.au/viewtopic.php?f=68&t=20391

Since January lol


ah well. $28 more for shiny new ones with the silver backing plate
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