There is already information out on installing a rear sway bar, so I’ll share my experience from the perspective of a DIY-er on jack stands.
Found it’s easiest to remove the stock rear bar with endlinks attached, and fish it out through the space opened up by unbolting the muffler from mid-pipe.
Endlink bolts: 12mm
Sway bar bushing brackets: 14mm
Exhaust nuts: 17mm
I installed a Whiteline 22mm rear bar with Whiteline adjustable endlinks. The Whiteline instructions say to set up the adjustable endlinks to match the factory length. That’s very roughly about 2.75” by my measurements.
After trial and error, found the best way to handle it was to set up and install the endlinks with the bar off the car. Otherwise, it’s difficult to tighten the endlinks on the car because the coil spring gets in the way of getting an Allen key in the endlink bolt in order to keep it from spinning when tightening the nut. A pass-through socket is also helpful here.
Of course, remember to torque everything with the car on the ground, or in my case, I just put floor jacks under each lower control arm to simulate the suspension being loaded.
Whiteline endlink nuts: 19mm
Whiteline endlinks: 6mm Allen
Sway bar brackets: 35 lb-ft
Sway bar endlinks: 27 lb-ft
(Note that the lateral locks should be closer to the sway bar mounts, but I have them spaced like this upon initial installation in order to see how the bar settles before they are moved closer to the mounts.)
I like to use a paint pen on the fasteners once everything is torqued down so it’s easy to see if anything has loosened.
Hope this helps the next person who does this mod.
Found it’s easiest to remove the stock rear bar with endlinks attached, and fish it out through the space opened up by unbolting the muffler from mid-pipe.
Endlink bolts: 12mm
Sway bar bushing brackets: 14mm
Exhaust nuts: 17mm
I installed a Whiteline 22mm rear bar with Whiteline adjustable endlinks. The Whiteline instructions say to set up the adjustable endlinks to match the factory length. That’s very roughly about 2.75” by my measurements.
After trial and error, found the best way to handle it was to set up and install the endlinks with the bar off the car. Otherwise, it’s difficult to tighten the endlinks on the car because the coil spring gets in the way of getting an Allen key in the endlink bolt in order to keep it from spinning when tightening the nut. A pass-through socket is also helpful here.
Of course, remember to torque everything with the car on the ground, or in my case, I just put floor jacks under each lower control arm to simulate the suspension being loaded.
Whiteline endlink nuts: 19mm
Whiteline endlinks: 6mm Allen
Sway bar brackets: 35 lb-ft
Sway bar endlinks: 27 lb-ft
(Note that the lateral locks should be closer to the sway bar mounts, but I have them spaced like this upon initial installation in order to see how the bar settles before they are moved closer to the mounts.)
I like to use a paint pen on the fasteners once everything is torqued down so it’s easy to see if anything has loosened.
Hope this helps the next person who does this mod.