progress swaybar?

[overb0ost]

alright well after some research on the different sways, my first choice was tanabe but after further research on other forums ie. ziptied. i found out about progress.

Progress Swaybar for S14- Front bar 30mm, 24mm in the rear. 3 way Adjustable front & back. Tubular steel construction. Progress supplies a heims type endlink on all swaybars.

i remember reading a post on ziptied that someone actually tested several bars and progress came out as #1. although the rear seems small in diameter, on full stiff its as equivalent as a tanabe 27.5mm hollow chromoly swaybar (as read from the person who tested this, I think his name is Wiisass?)

does anyone have any feedback on these bars? i was looking into godspeed since they are almost the same as largus but has a stupid kink at the bends.

overall, i'm leaning towards progress because i can adjust the stiffness and if i desire oversteer or understeer that can be easily done without buying other swaybars to test out.

how did people like adjustability? how are the heim joints?

does anyone know who carries these? it seems like its hard to find a supplier who has them for s14.

thanks

[MELLO*SOS]

sorry can't give an opinion on those bars. Search around there are a few sway bar opinion/suggestion threads here.

I love my white line sway bars.

[SoSideways]

overb0ost - you've got PM :bigok:

[Macadoshus]

Tim (Wiisass) did the test. We had the progress, tanabe, and some stock ones on hand at the time, we mean to test more when we get them. So if anyone has other brand swaybars in the philly area, it would be awesome to throw them on our test jig. I will point Tim to this thread...

[overb0ost]

^^ Tim seems like a very knowledgable person.

his post on ziptied helped with my decision especially testing the different adjustments and how they equivilate to another brand.

the big factor is that they come with solid heim endlinks. buying them or at least making them competantly would cost around 50$ if you used the S5 FC U shaped bracket.

a little more expensive than tanabe but gettin the endlinks makes it cheaper in the end. i will be getting these progress hopefully from SoSideways!

[Wiisass]

Like Mac said, I tested the stock s13, HICAS, tanabe and progress bars. I liked the progress bars best due to their adjustability and the fact that the adjustability could make them range from stock bar stiffness to tanabe bar stiffness. Actually for the rear, the softest setting on the progress bars is a little stiffer than a HICAS rear sway. For the front, it's about the same as a stock sway on it's softest setting. And then on it's stiffest setting the front bar is a stiffer than a tanabe front and the rear is almost the same as a tanabe rear bar in terms of stiffness.

I would still like to test the whiteline bars and see how they compare. I always thought they were good bars, just with a troublesome endlink design. But until I actually test them and can see what they would do, I will definitely recommend progress bars over any others for an S-chassis at this point.

[overb0ost]

^^ also people have to keep in mind since most ppl would use OEM type endlinks for the tanabe, it won't be as stiff so in reality, the progress bar is actually stiffer since it uses solid heim joints which allows the bar to work more efficiently.

unless of course people make their own solid endlinks or buy SPL endlinks for 350 (set) which i doubt.

seems like progress > tanabe

[Wiisass]

Overboost, that's a good point.

It reminded me that I wanted to say when I did the testing, I just tested the actual bar and did not include the endlinks in the test. So the stiffer the endlink, the more you will be using the actual bar. If the endlinks are softer they will have to move and absorb some of the force before they can move the sway bar.

Tim

[SoSideways]

If you didn't include the endlink in the test, then it would be safe to say that right out of the box the Progress bars would be a lot more effective than the Tanabe bars?

[overb0ost]

^^ actually if it was a bar to bar test you have to assume the progess is on full stiff since its adjustable. if it was on full stiff it would be equal.

however, in reality using endlinks. the progress is far superior UNLESS the person having a tanabe bar got solid endlinks or made his own. then they would be equal again.

the endlinks set apart the two bars.
but, even if the tanabe owners use solid heim endlinks, the cost would rise making it more expensive than progress.

AND. progress is 3way adjustable.

so however you look at it. progress is greater than tanabe in MOST aspects.

the only thing i see that tanabe would be better is the weight. the progess is made of Tubular steel construction while tanabe is Tubular chromoly construction.

i got the info from:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Nissan_240SX_Performance_Modification/Sway_Bars

[Wiisass]

The weight is the only thing I forgot to do when I tested the bars. It would've been good information to have.

The progress bars were tested on all the adjustments. And all my stiffness references are just the actual bar and do not take into account endlinks.

[kuramaya]

Quality wise, I like Progress. I had Progress Springs on my sentra in the states, they were good quality and didnt blow my stock struts...

[94_240sx]

I just installed Progress sway bar and add a couple of things. It's SOLID, not tubular. It was heavy when I got it, so I had to email Progress to verify it. They confirmed that it's soild and the rep from Progress corrected wikibooks.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Nissan_240SX_Performance_Modification/Sway_Bars

I did a lot of research and Progress was the best bang for the buck considering adjustability, stiffness and endlinks...etc. I highly recommend anyone who's insterested in sway bar upgrade.