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I was doing some reading around and noticed that you could swap out the 2005 sways for some new beefyer ones off the 2008 aveo... if you do have a 2005 you can help but notice how they are about as thick as a pencil... I found i can order the Polyurethane mounts online for a very good price... Also saw a how to on making your own Chassis Braces with some electrical conduit and 2"in sheet aluminum... Please give me some feed back
Oh and i want a FabX front end custom sway bar!!
Ultra Racing makes a few braces (and a rear swaybar) for the Aveo. They have a few US distributors and two (throwdown racing & next gen tuning) are advertisers here.
the conduit front brace is actually an good piece in addition to the the other one, they work on different principles.
if i had the choice of a "finished" piece in the design of the conduit piece as opposed to the ultra racing piece, i would pick the conduit design.
That said, i am making my own.
This is what i was referring to
http://www.uniquemotorsports.com/2009/0 ... ervations/
i know what you were referring to (if that was to me) subachad wrote that..
i prefer that location for the bar as opposed to the ultra racing bar.. and wish a chromoly purchasable one was available, but since it isnt i will make one.
yeah I think Im going to make one myself... Now all I need are the tools to do it! haha
conduit can be bent by hand
do you really think it will be strong enough to stiffen up your suspension
its been proven to work even with conduit, it doesn't experience torsion or perpendicular forces, just a lateral force along the length of tube..
but i would prefer a chromoly version myself.
I PM'd Subachad a few months ago about his design, he gave me the specs on it and I have since slowly been making some very similar in design, but out of sch80 Alum.
I was thinking of using conduit for the brace behind my rear seats in my hatch... I figure it should work just fine but now have to think of some way to make or find some braces to attact it to the wheel well
Just keep in mind, as I know this from experience...when you stiffen up the body rigidity of this car the rear end likes to get loose around turns on unpredictable surfaces. I'm on snow and ice 9 months out of the year here and I know...If you don't have that problem then go for it. I'm gonna have to just deal with it though, because I have to put a rear brace back in when I take the back seat out as it is part of the body bracing.
Im not to worried about the snow since I live in the desert haha so i think it would be good!
I just ordered the Ultra Racing rear strut bar .. Can't wait! :D
Thought I would chime in. For the money, that is an incredibly good mod. This assumes you have a means of making it. The parts are only about $15 to make the brace. As for strength as mentioned before you need to look at what the bar is designed to do. It needs to keep the control arms located and while you can easily bend it back or even rip it by hitting a rock on the road, it does work to keep the control arms located and therefore the front tires better planted. I picked up 10mph in a specific cloverleaf with this mod. Also, if I do hit something, a tough bar would cause damage to the control arms or frame of the car, where this will just rip the aluminum end plates and scare the crap out of me. This bar is only about 2.5" off the bar. While its marked up, its still the original piece.
The front swaybar on an 04-05 is 17mm, 06+ is supposedly 18mm. This is about a 33% difference in stiffness.
That's correct. I had a chance to measure mine (my car was made in second half of 06 when they went up in size) and my sway bar is 18mm thick. Also, an interesting fact, as per my local dealer they did go back to 17mm bar in 08 (and that's also true since I got to measure it on my dad's 08 Aveo5)Quote:
Originally Posted by subachad
The strut bar that goes in your cargo area? i already installed that and it does make a difference. Now I'm waiting for the 19mm rear sway bar too (and that's supposed to make even more difference). Already have both front strut bar and the bottom 4 pt brace installed, they also help out a lot.Quote:
Originally Posted by byron84
Yep, I think we're on the same page : http://ultraracing.ca/?q=content/ultra- ... swift-2002Quote:
Originally Posted by serega12
The rear 19 you're waiting for goes underneath? It's gonna have one stiff ass.. :P
Yup. That's what I'm looking for though... I already have a stiffer front with the stock 18mm sway bar, top 2 point strut bar, and bottom 4 point brace... now the rear is almost done... I noticed a little bit of difference after installing the upper bar (I had to bend the locking wire/bracket for the left rear seat) up for it to lock back in place again, I think it bent when the bar has pushed the sides apart.Quote:
Originally Posted by byron84
Hmm.. is that basically the only place it can be mounted?
Where else would you want to mount a rear upper strut brace except for the rear upper part of the car? :D It happens to be right behind the seats... I think you could also mount it on another bolt on the same bracket, but that's about it, and it would be further into the cargo area thus reducing the usable space... The way mine sits is literally on top of the sub box. It clears it perfectly, so I'm happy with where it's at.
lol ... yes yes, good point
today I took a drive for no particular reason for about 2 hours. I averaged 8.5L/100KM of all city driving and not too soft either. I guess that's not too bad, that's over 27MPG. I am soo anxious to get this strut bar. argh.