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The whiteline bars are very good for handling – I’ve found a 24mm bar rear set to hard a great improvement in balancing out the understeer.
A few things to be aware of though.
As others have mentioned the bars lack a welded lug (or similar) that others have adjacent to the bush mounting points, to prevent lateral movement of the bar. The yellow rigs with the pinched metal clamps that come with them are useless. The lateral movements can be a fair bit and lead to clunking sounds too. Its also reported by several users that after some time the poly bushes become noisy as the grease thins out, and requires periodic re-greasing to keep them quiet. I actually think these 2 issues may be related. ie it is the lateral movement that carries the grease out of the bush.
The pic below shows both these problems. The clamp pushed out the side, showing the extent of the lateral movement and the grease spread out from the bush.
I’ve gone to the extent of making up some sturdy alloy clamps to prevent the movement. (see pics below with the clamp installed on the bar). Since these have been on there is no sideways movement of the bar at all, no noise, no clunks and all is good. Its only been about a month though, so too early to tell if these will prove my theory that stopping the sideways movement will fix the bush noise too by stoping the grease from being carried out as the bar slides through the bushes. Really the bars should come with something like this, or a welded lug or something similar from the start. As I’ve said those little yellow clamps are a waste of time.
Also note, that a solid 24mm bar is pretty stiff. I snapped an OEM end link with this bar on, so you might want to considering upgrading those too if your going with one of these bars.
A few things to be aware of though.
As others have mentioned the bars lack a welded lug (or similar) that others have adjacent to the bush mounting points, to prevent lateral movement of the bar. The yellow rigs with the pinched metal clamps that come with them are useless. The lateral movements can be a fair bit and lead to clunking sounds too. Its also reported by several users that after some time the poly bushes become noisy as the grease thins out, and requires periodic re-greasing to keep them quiet. I actually think these 2 issues may be related. ie it is the lateral movement that carries the grease out of the bush.
The pic below shows both these problems. The clamp pushed out the side, showing the extent of the lateral movement and the grease spread out from the bush.
I’ve gone to the extent of making up some sturdy alloy clamps to prevent the movement. (see pics below with the clamp installed on the bar). Since these have been on there is no sideways movement of the bar at all, no noise, no clunks and all is good. Its only been about a month though, so too early to tell if these will prove my theory that stopping the sideways movement will fix the bush noise too by stoping the grease from being carried out as the bar slides through the bushes. Really the bars should come with something like this, or a welded lug or something similar from the start. As I’ve said those little yellow clamps are a waste of time.
Also note, that a solid 24mm bar is pretty stiff. I snapped an OEM end link with this bar on, so you might want to considering upgrading those too if your going with one of these bars.
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