Cobb Rear Sway Bar Installed! :)

[AKLGT]

unfortunately, didn't have time to do it before solo II on Saturday, but got the time this afternoon. Phil did most of the work with brute force and air tools. he's so handy lately, doing most of the car installs now, so manly. lol

anyways, it took longer than the 30 mins people told me, but there were additional brackets that had to be installed so it took longer. the cobb RSB is the new design as other people were having a lot of problems with rubbing or clunking. it feels a little different, definitely tighter of course. haven't had the chance to really test it out so, we'll see.

the bar and brackets:





stock sway bar and bracket:




Cobb bar vs stock bar




reinforced brackets




Phil installing the endlinks and rebolting the exhaust:





New sway bar:

[DJDoubleLP]

Very nice! Looks just as easy as the RSB on a Matrix/Vibe!

[MatrixXRS]

Looks good .

I hope you let the poor guy drive it afterwards ;D.

[AKLGT]

no, it was much harder phil says. lol. said it took him 5 mins to install his, no fussing with the exhaust or anything. of course to look and compare my RSB to his RSB.... his still is dwarfed. lol

[DJDoubleLP]

Why did you have to screw around with the exhaust??

[vibechick]

Probably cuz it was in the way....

[MatrixXRS]

djdoublelp said:

Why did you have to screw around with the exhaust??

vibechick said:

Probably cuz it was in the way....

Ouch!

[AKLGT]

LMAO! good one, carrie!

[DJDoubleLP]

Ha friggin' ha. I did not think that the exhaust would be in the way of a sway bar.

[AKLGT]

well, you can see from the pics how the sway bar is looped behind the y pipe of the mufflers.

[DJDoubleLP]

Yeah...true. I would have tried it without having to undo the exhaust, but if it made things easier then so be it!

[AKLGT]

phil was gonna try it and i told him no, the directions say you have to as well as everyone else on the subie boards! but hell, if he really wants, then go ahead but don't get pissed when i say i told you so cause you can't weasel the bar out from the pipes.

let's just say, after the install, he said there was NO WAY to get that bar out without unbolting and moving the pipes out of the way. it's a tight fit in there.

[AKLGT]

and i should have taken a pic of phil's rsb vs my rsb.. you will see there is a huge difference in shape and size.

[DJDoubleLP]

I had a picture of my sway bar....but for some reason I can no find it.

Yeah yours is much difference because you have independent rear suspension whereas we have a trailing axle with struts.

So our sway bar fits in the axle whereas yours has to go from one side to the other because like the front sway bar it is attached to each strut.

[AKLGT]

i can certainly tell a difference when cornering hard, but since the car is lowered, the endlinks are rubbing so they clunk. kinda annoying. cobb is working on a solution so hopefully there will be a fix soon!