G'day everyone,

Thank you for your feedback on the prototype new swaybar kit. We're comfortable with the design as it stands now but will take a look at some of the suggestions made and come back to you.

In the meantime, we wanted to explain the reasoning behind this particular design to help understand our position;

- In our view, one for the major reasons behind failure of our previous design was not re-torquing of mounting hardware as indicated in the instructions. We are not trying to wash our hands of the problem but we can't ignore the fact that our own R & D test car did not have any problem after many hard kilometres on and off the track. However, we did have experience with a customers car that was showing signs of metal fatigue and had not been re-torqued. This is not a "splitting hairs" issue as any design that works around laminating or bolting to existing pressed metal must be re-torqued. The instructions for the new design make an even greater point of this and we also provide torque settings.

- We looked at other designs in the market and tried to combine the strengths of other peoples experience with our own. We found that there was no single brace/mount hybrid that also laminated the OE sheet metal at the mount point. Our research also showed that a popular laminating design did not use a single piece brace/mount like ours. Other designs also modify the pickup points, swaybar needed and resulting geometry. This is something we wanted to avoid. Our view is that the single piece aspect is more important and the load distributing washers used coupled with the control arm pickup mounting and the use of Grade 12 and 8 bolts is more than adequate.

- The mounting kit however also had to meet certain cost targets to keep the price affordable which instantly ruled out the use of alloys. The relatively lightweight steel brace design with twist beam box centre is strong yet light. This design also importantly maintains all original OEM mounting and pickup points meaning the brace alone can be used with other swaybars including OEM while also ensuring that the swaybar geometry, motion ratio, angular change and performance are not compromised.

No, it is not like anyone else's design but we are confident that it will do the job as good or better than any other design as long as it is correctly fitted.

Happy to answer any further questions you may have.

Cheers
Jim Gurieff

Whiteline Automotive