TRD rear sway bar installed - Toyota Yaris Forums

TOLMACH · 06-05-2012, 02:20 AM

(One more review)

Background: completely stock suspension (struts + springs). TRD rear sway bar installed (bought from TRDsparks)

Impressions: nice thing, definitely can feel its presence. Car became a bit sharper. Like this thing a lot. The thing is firm and sturdy - played with it a little before installation (I am kinda strong 215 lbs guy). Overall a great mod for 150 bucks.

Installation is very straightforward and easy. Also liked the trdsparks customer service - guys seem to be busting their asses (in a good sense).

tooter · 06-05-2012, 03:03 AM

I'm totally satisfied with mine as well. It tucks neatly up into the framework...

It's one of the best bang for the buck mods for a Yaris.

TOLMACH · 06-05-2012, 03:45 AM

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Originally Posted by tooter

It's one of the best bang for the buck mods for a Yaris.

Especially considering UR became overpriced and this one is only 150 bucks

CrankyOldMan · 06-05-2012, 04:17 AM

I have one sitting in the shed, waiting for the rest of the suspension parts to show up before I put it on...

racerb · 06-05-2012, 08:15 AM

My UR 23mm bar has been ordered just wiating for it to arrive. I would have gone TRD, but I plan to Auto-X the Yaris and wanted the larger bar, hopefully decrease the understeer. Looks good by the way!!

PS: Sparks Toyota (TRD Sparks) is less than an hour from my house, so I do plan on getting some TRD and stock parts from them!

racerb

CrankyOldMan · 06-05-2012, 08:58 AM

I ended up getting the TRD but for the same reason: if you put on the TRD, it counts as a port option for SCCA AutoX--leaving you the option of adding a larger front bar. The larger bar, of course, will be coming from those beautiful folks at MI.

racerb · 06-05-2012, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by CrankyOldMan

I ended up getting the TRD but for the same reason: if you put on the TRD, it counts as a port option for SCCA AutoX--leaving you the option of adding a larger front bar. The larger bar, of course, will be coming from those beautiful folks at MI.

Not sure yet, but having a larger front bar has never been an issue on any of my previous FWD Auto-X and/or Road Race machines. Having the biggest rear bar I could find made the biggest difference, in fact the last car I built (Nissan) we removed the front bar completely. No more understeer and the LSD actually did it's job much better, with less camber needed!!

Jason@SportsCar · 06-05-2012, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by racerb

Not sure yet, but having a larger front bar has never been an issue on any of my previous FWD Auto-X and/or Road Race machines. Having the biggest rear bar I could find made the biggest difference, in fact the last car I built (Nissan) we removed the front bar completely. No more understeer and the LSD actually did it's job much better, with less camber needed!!

There is more then one OE front bar as well. We pulled off the stock 24mm bar and used a smaller 23mm we got from a 2007 sedan to help rotation. The 24mm has a blue dot, the 23mm has a purple dot.

http://www.yarisworld.com/forums/sho...&postcount=749

xnamerxx · 06-05-2012, 03:27 PM

I'm running the trd bar and would probably go to a bigger bar if I could do it over.
To add to this I pulled my front bar off last weekend to get an idea of how the car behaved with it missing, and it wasn't doom and gloom like I expected plus my times were something in the range of 2 seconds faster on a 60 second course this is also with running -.8 camber vs the normal -2.7 I usually run.

Going over my data I definitely lost lateral traction something like 0.05g but I was able to get on the gas so much earlier that the slight loss in lateral traction didn't matter. I wouldn't recommend this for anyone unless they were running much stiffer springs since body roll increased dramatically. Also I was having problems with rubbing as well as the car became quite a bit more loose and would oversteer on trail braking which is good for me

since I don't left foot brake.

racerb · 06-05-2012, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by xnamerxx

I'm running the trd bar and would probably go to a bigger bar if I could do it over.
To add to this I pulled my front bar off last weekend to get an idea of how the car behaved with it missing, and it wasn't doom and gloom like I expected plus my times were something in the range of 2 seconds improved on a 60 second course this is also with running -.8 camber vs the normal -2.7 I usually run.

Going over my data I definitely lost lateral traction something like 0.05g but I was able to get on the gas so much earlier that the slight loss in lateral traction didn't matter. I wouldn't recommend this for anyone unless they were running much stiffer springs since body roll increased dramatically. Also I was having problems with rubbing as well as the car became quite a bit more loose and would oversteer on trail braking which is good for me

since I don't left foot brake.

Understood, by the time we got to the point of disconnecting the front bar, we were running Koni inserts in custom housings with adjustible coil-overs and camber plates. Rear was set up with inverted Carreras with in-board lowering springs and 7/8" adjustible rear bar, also the tranny had a 4 puck clutch disk, 800 kg pressure plate and Phantom-Grip LSD unit. Car handled like a go-cart, but could barely outrun it's own shadow, still fun to race though!!

richard_rsp · 06-05-2012, 09:54 AM

Glad to hear you enjoy it! I bought one for my 2012 (from TRDSparks) yesterday... Should be delivered tomorrow!

1.5 · 06-05-2012, 11:20 AM

drop it now for ultimate handling

Sparks Toyota-TRD · 06-05-2012, 11:23 AM

Thank you for the orders gents! We really appreciate the business and these cars are fun to drive when the suspension is modified! I have an 06 xB with highly modified suspension and have a blast everyday driving it.

TOLMACH · 06-05-2012, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Sparks Toyota-TRD

Thank you for the orders gents! We really appreciate the business and these cars are fun to drive when the suspension is modified! I have an 06 xB with highly modified suspension and have a blast everyday driving it.

Looking forward to receiving my TRD cold air intake (I think it was you who processed my order earlier today)

cali yaris · 06-05-2012, 12:28 PM

^ Sparks, you should become a vendor again, this market is clearly still viable for you!

Sparks Toyota-TRD · 06-05-2012, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by cali yaris

^ Sparks, you should become a vendor again, this market is clearly still viable for you!

Wish we could, but the forum died a little as well pricing went up! We are still hanging around here!

Bethlehem-yaris · 06-05-2012, 01:10 PM

gona sound like a dork.... what does it do?

TOLMACH · 06-05-2012, 10:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Bethlehem-yaris

gona sound like a dork.... what does it do?

This is a nice thing to reduce the body roll and make the car handling a bit sharper. The result in my case exceeded my expectations.

There are lots of posts here on installation of the rear sway bars.

06-05-2012, 08:15 AM	#5
racerb View User's Garage Drives: 2010 Yaris HB Blazin' Blue Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Leland, NC Posts: 444	My UR 23mm bar has been ordered just wiating for it to arrive. I would have gone TRD, but I plan to Auto-X the Yaris and wanted the larger bar, hopefully decrease the understeer. Looks good by the way!! PS: Sparks Toyota (TRD Sparks) is less than an hour from my house, so I do plan on getting some TRD and stock parts from them! racerb __________________ racerb '86 Celica GT '87 Celica GT-S '98 Rav4L '01 Tundra SR5

06-05-2012, 03:27 PM	#9
xnamerxx 0-60 in slow Drives: light blue liftback Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: so cal Posts: 926	I'm running the trd bar and would probably go to a bigger bar if I could do it over. To add to this I pulled my front bar off last weekend to get an idea of how the car behaved with it missing, and it wasn't doom and gloom like I expected plus my times were something in the range of 2 seconds faster on a 60 second course this is also with running -.8 camber vs the normal -2.7 I usually run. Going over my data I definitely lost lateral traction something like 0.05g but I was able to get on the gas so much earlier that the slight loss in lateral traction didn't matter. I wouldn't recommend this for anyone unless they were running much stiffer springs since body roll increased dramatically. Also I was having problems with rubbing as well as the car became quite a bit more loose and would oversteer on trail braking which is good for me since I don't left foot brake. Last edited by xnamerxx; 06-05-2012 at 05:10 PM.

06-05-2012, 11:20 AM	#12
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06-05-2012, 12:28 PM	#15
cali yaris ULTIMATE View User's Garage Drives: 07 Yaris Turbo Join Date: May 2007 Location: Canoga Park, CA Posts: 14,859	^ Sparks, you should become a vendor again, this market is clearly still viable for you! __________________ Micro Image forums, online store and shop are now closed. It was a great eight year run, but it was time to focus on other things. I'm still selling parts on eBay under micro*image seller ID and customers can still make requests for anything specific.

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