installed my sways this morning.

took a trip up to the beach to see Adam and get my sways installed. everything went quite smooth. the front was on in like 10 minutes but the rear took a bit of work. we had to drop one side of the cradle, take out one shock and spring, un hook the brake lines from the frame, and snake the bar out (it just barely fit out). which wasn't that big a deal but we couldn't fit a ratchet into the sway bar mounting bolts and it took a year and a half to get the bolts out in a tight space with a crescent wrench on the side we didn't drop.

i had been having a vibration when i got on the brake pedal at high speeds also and we had time to look into that. the tie rods were OK and everything else was tight (which surprised me since i work the car pretty hard on the track.) turns out the vibration was 100% from the warped rotors. i plan on replacing them with the slotted factory SRT rotors anyways, so Adam just re surfaced them for me so i can get another track day or two out of them before putting new ones on. the vibration is 100% gone so it did the trick, but man they were jacked up. im sure we maxed out the amount you can cut out of the rotors to get rid of the wobble. lol. EBC red pads are tough on rotors for sure. thanks again Adam!



my buddy with his trans am came with to do his oil change.





old and new front sway bars







factory rear bar...



new rear bar installed.



here is a video of how warped the brake rotors were before we cut them. if you look near the cutting bit you can see them wobble.

Nice! Im glad you got them installed. How much better is the ride over stock? I am hoping to get new sways this summer.

good for you! it'll handle like its on rails with them fat ass tires you put on

congrats jt! im gonna have to make it to one of your road races this year. keep us posted.

liljoejoe54 wrote:

Nice! Im glad you got them installed. How much better is the ride over stock? I am hoping to get new sways this summer.

its a big difference. the roads were wet and too cold for traction on summer performance tires, so i didn't get to play with them too much.

i turned out onto the street from the shop and shook her back and forth a bit at about 40mph or so and she stayed flat as a pancake and i started grinning . the feel is super awesome but its super different. it will take some getting used to because i almost expect the body roll when i take a corner and it just doesn't happen now. its kinda odd.

Congrats JT

jontoad wrote:

i had been having a vibration when i got on the brake pedal at high speeds also and we had time to look into that. the tie rods were OK and everything else was tight (which surprised me since i work the car pretty hard on the track.) turns out the vibration was 100% from the warped rotors. i plan on replacing them with the slotted factory SRT rotors anyways, so Adam just re surfaced them for me so i can get another track day or two out of them before putting new ones on. the vibration is 100% gone so it did the trick, but man they were jacked up. im sure we maxed out the amount you can cut out of the rotors to get rid of the wobble. lol. EBC red pads are tough on rotors for sure.

I'm in need of new rotors & pads (same symptom as you)...42K on the car and I have no guarantee these aren't the original pads and rotors (I bought it with 27K on it).

I was going to go R1 Concepts just because "that's what everybody does", but you're going stock...not to hijack the thread, but OEM or R1? Opinion?

Iguanaman wrote:

jontoad wrote:

i had been having a vibration when i got on the brake pedal at high speeds also and we had time to look into that. the tie rods were OK and everything else was tight (which surprised me since i work the car pretty hard on the track.) turns out the vibration was 100% from the warped rotors. i plan on replacing them with the slotted factory SRT rotors anyways, so Adam just re surfaced them for me so i can get another track day or two out of them before putting new ones on. the vibration is 100% gone so it did the trick, but man they were jacked up. im sure we maxed out the amount you can cut out of the rotors to get rid of the wobble. lol. EBC red pads are tough on rotors for sure.

I'm in need of new rotors & pads (same symptom as you)...42K on the car and I have no guarantee these aren't the original pads and rotors (I bought it with 27K on it).

I was going to go R1 Concepts just because "that's what everybody does", but you're going stock...not to hijack the thread, but OEM or R1? Opinion?

in your case R1, in my case stock. remember i have the brembo brakes on my SRT.

for the SRT's the factory brembo rotors are better than the aftermarket ones according to Matt Robinson on lxforums. he races his car even harder than i do and i trust his feedback 100%. he says the factory brembo rotors last him more track days than R1's or any other aftermarket before warping. the SRT factory rotors are also less expensive (i can get them online for 74 each + ship) so its a no brainier for me.

as for the R/T's the R1's are a great choice. they are better than your factory rotors and seem to be the best choice for you short of going to a full brake kit with fixed position multi piston calapers like the wilwood kit.

I agree with Jon on the R1's for the R/T I have had them for about 2 years with no problems at all. They feel much better than stock and with the Hawk HPS pads on there its even better.

Great job Jon let us know when your first test at the track is

Headtripp wrote:

Great job Jon let us know when your first test at the track is

Adam did all the hard parts! lol. well...it wasn't necessarily hard, but there were car parts that i had not had out of my car before since i haven't dropped any suspension components or half the cradle out of an LX model car before like he has. it was much faster to let someone who has done it once to go at it. now that i know what is involved its no big deal with the right tools. i haven't been around people i trust to work on my rides much, so most of the time i do all my own work, but i was glad to have him help.

adam is one of the few people i trust with my car.

jesse031081 wrote:

adam is one of the few people i trust with my car.

Yep yep.


Glad it went smoothly JT.

jontoad wrote:

in your case R1, in my case stock. remember i have the brembo brakes on my SRT.

for the SRT's the factory brembo rotors are better than the aftermarket ones according to Matt Robinson on lxforums. he races his car even harder than i do and i trust his feedback 100%. he says the factory brembo rotors last him more track days than R1's or any other aftermarket before warping. the SRT factory rotors are also less expensive (i can get them online for 74 each + ship) so its a no brainier for me.

as for the R/T's the R1's are a great choice. they are better than your factory rotors and seem to be the best choice for you short of going to a full brake kit with fixed position multi piston calapers like the wilwood kit.

THANKS! I appreciate the feedback. And it was good to finally meet you in person yesterday, Jon.


We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread, already in progress.....

Awesome man, glad it turned out good, and it drives nice now, glad to help out bro while I still can!! I got some pics as well......

thanks for the pics adam. im real happy with where the car is right now. i just need to install my blue top trans solonoids that are sitting here and i think im gonna take it easy on the car mods for a while and do one or two things to my truck to get her back in shape.

those HID lights i was telling you about showed up today and i put those in the car too. you were right they are bitchen. now i just need good weather so i can drive it.

jontoad wrote:

thanks for the pics adam. im real happy with where the car is right now. i just need to install my blue top trans solonoids that are sitting here and i think im gonna take it easy on the car mods for a while and do one or two things to my truck to get her back in shape.

those HID lights i was telling you about showed up today and i put those in the car too. you were right they are bitchen. now i just need good weather so i can drive it.

That's cool man!! I wasn't too fond of HID's until I got them, NOW I preach them, they are literally like night and day!! SO much safer for night driving as well...

bad ass guys!