Beaks Kit & 23mm sway bar installed! Pics [56k come back in 5 days]

**T-onedc2** · 08-07-2006 01:59 PM

Ok for about 2 months I've been driving around with my Beaks Sub-frame Reinforcement kit and 23mm JDM ITR rear sway bar, and as others have said before, the transformation in handling has got to be the best value mod you can carry out on a DC2/4.
Coupled with ITR shocks & springs this makes for a fantastic street setup, no crashing over bumps and bone jarring potholes but very firm and absorbant ride, and now thanks to the rear sway bar it sits very flat through corners with very neutral cornering at a maintained cornering speed, and as much lift-off oversteer as you dare to give it.
I've been waiting till now to show the pics as the Beaks Tie bar took a couple months more the the rest to arrive from the US as it was on back-order, but many thanks go to Yonas & Zi at JDMYard for supplying the necessary gear!

Here's some pics and feel free to ask me any questions about it.
Cheers
Tyson

**bigjo5** · 08-07-2006 06:26 PM

wow how much was it i need one for my civic i have a ITR rear sway aswell needin a beaks kit..

**Zdster** · 08-07-2006 06:33 PM

Originally Posted by bigjo5

wow how much was it i need one for my civic i have a ITR rear sway aswell needin a beaks kit..

I would do some research on putting the beaks kit on an ek

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Nice job - looks like a good upgrade.

**T-onedc2** · 09-07-2006 10:31 AM

Tie bar was $200, Reinforcement kit $150. The kit would be good on an EG but as ZDSTER said you need to look at maybe an ASR kit. Hondatech forums in US can be good for this advice.

**Q_ball** · 09-07-2006 10:41 AM

Awesome work Tyson!

**tinkerbell** · 09-07-2006 11:59 AM

can i ask how you feel about the components of the re-inforcement:

or is it better than it looks?

surely they could have supplied bolts that actully went through the FULL thread of the nut???

**bennjamin** · 09-07-2006 04:07 PM

ssssssssssssssssssnnnnnnnnnnnnnnaaaaaaaaaaaaaPPPPP PPPPPP !

Please torque up this kit a few k's after inital drive...will be interesting to see how it holds up. This is the latest thing from Beaks (the bling tiebar)

**T-onedc2** · 10-07-2006 10:02 AM

Originally Posted by tinkerbell

can i ask how you feel about the components of the re-inforcement:

or is it better than it looks?

surely they could have supplied bolts that actully went through the FULL thread of the nut???

It's better than it looks, there's 2 bolts, the second one is just visible in the pic, the top of the bolt is an allen key head. My only concern before it arrived was the strength of the black 90deg brackets on each end but they are quite thick and solid so I can't see them breaking anytime soon.

**BlitZ** · 10-07-2006 04:54 PM

I also hope they are high tensile bolts too

Originally Posted by tinkerbell

can i ask how you feel about the components of the re-inforcement:

or is it better than it looks?

surely they could have supplied bolts that actully went through the FULL thread of the nut???

**EG5** · 10-07-2006 05:22 PM

it is igh tensile locking nuts, if it ever breaks/loose

Beaks will replace it with warranty.

**aaronng** · 10-07-2006 05:42 PM

Maybe in revision 2, beaks will supply longer bolts. Or you could get some matching high tensile bolts which are longer.

**Jamesnic** · 27-01-2008 06:30 PM

Im looking at an ASR and beaks tie for my EM1, wats the deal with installation? did u get a professional to do yours? if so around how much does this type of a job cost?