Front Sway Bar Fitment

[toycsi]

hi guys

how are ya.

i was just wandering if any one could please help advise me if a ae82 -86 model 4age model hatch corolla front sway bar will fit my ae92 1994 model car ??

iv found one at the wreckers and my car does not have a front sway bar at all,allthough iv fitted a white line strut brace recently to it.

any ideas guys please??

thanks

cheers

glen

[Redwarf]

Well, 30 seconds worth of tooling around on the whiteline website says no.

 

Bite the bullet, spend some money, buy a new one, and get a plan of what you want the car to do.

 

In all honesty, adding the strut brace at this time is about as useful as a scuba tank made from cheese.

[toycsi]

hi redwarf,

thanks for the reply.

so you don't know the answer to my question then??

i do bite the bullet and spend money and have been spending money in the past 6 weeks on the car.

white line says there is no sway bar for ae92 as they never came with a sway bar on them from factory so i thought i may be able to adapt a second hand sway bar of some thing else you see!!

a don't see why a strut brace wouldnt work,it still braces the front end some way or another.

thanks

glen

[Redwarf]

So the BTF75Z won't fit an AE92?

[MYSTIK[RL]]

white line says there is no sway bar for ae92 as they never came with a sway bar on them from factory so i thought i may be able to adapt a second hand sway bar of some thing else you see!!

 

wrong, only base models in the ae9X never came with the front swaybar, strut bace <you>will</you> help in the long run as long as its the 3 point factory item from the sx/gti (had a 2 point, the towers still flexed). Oh and the ae82 is a completely different shape and has different mounting points.

 

now there was a kit from whiteline at one stage so you could fit a sway bar to base models, its had a different part number to the one redwarf qouted, it seems that whitle may have stopped producing the kit

 

if you must have a front sway bar you need the following out of an SX/GTI(they have all the mounting bracket etc)

 

lower control arms,

brackets,

sway bar and links,

and i would think about changing the bushes while you at it.

Edited December 15, 2008 by MYSTIK

[toycsi]

wrong, only base models in the ae9X never came with the front swaybar, strut bace <you>will</you> help in the long run as long as its the 3 point factory item from the sx/gti (had a 2 point, the towers still flexed). Oh and the ae82 is a completely different shape and has different mounting points.

 

now there was a kit from whiteline at one stage so you could fit a sway bar to base models, its had a different part number to the one redwarf qouted, it seems that whitle may have stopped producing the kit

 

if you must have a front sway bar you need the following out of an SX/GTI(they have all the mounting bracket etc)

 

lower control arms,

brackets,

sway bar and links,

and i would think about changing the bushes while you at it.

 

hi mystik,

ok,thanks for the info mate!!

cheers i will see if i can locate a sx/gti bar then.

btw,my white line strut brace bolts on in three locations on top of tower.

merry x-mas

thanks

glen

Edited December 16, 2008 by toycsi

[MYSTIK[RL]]

the whiteline strut brace is considered a 2 point, because it goes from strut tower to strut tower.

 

the 3 point goes from strut tower to the firewall to the strust tower.

 

2 point strut brace

 

3 point strut brace

[toycsi]

the whiteline strut brace is considered a 2 point, because it goes from strut tower to strut tower.

 

the 3 point goes from strut tower to the firewall to the strust tower.

 

2 point strut brace

 

3 point strut brace

 

 

ok then,i had one of those flimsy week piece of shit braces in the second picture that i brought for $50 from toyospares and i threw it out.

it was thin and crap and bends far to easy.

may be i could mod my white line to also fit to the fire wall then for that extra bracing.

cheers

glen

[Redwarf]

The bottom one would actually be more structurally sound than the top one. There's one major weak point on the top one......

Edited December 17, 2008 by Redwarf
Got the two photo's mixed up.

[toycsi]

The top one would actually be more structurally sound than the bottom one. There's one major weak point on the bottom one......

 

for sure!!

[Redwarf]

Whoops wrong way around. The strut top mount point on the whitelines are weak.

[Bowler]

bout to say - you'd hope toyota would've had it right the first time...plus, she's a fairly sturdy fit once installed...

[MYSTIK[RL]]

The bottom one would actually be more structurally sound than the top one. There's one major weak point on the top one......

 

exactly right, i had a 2 point in my cs hatch and while it helped a little bit, it still had some flex in the strut towers, it wasnt the towers moving horizontally towards one another they were moving vertically up and down. the 3 point brace from the factory is way better than the 2 point aftermarket one. :)

Edited December 17, 2008 by MYSTIK