Steeda sway bars on Ecoboost, experiences & adjustments?

[Warhead]

It was nice meeting you at Steeda today, hope your install went well. I could not be happier with mine , I'm going to give a review in a day or two , have to get this stupid grin off my face first.

Also, you asked about MPG on the trip. I set a fresh trip odometer for the return home and hit 30.4 MPG.

What was yours again?

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[Chef jpd]

Installed the Steeda sways with billet mounts on my EB yesterday.
I must say it was quite an easy job, after seeing some online videos saying the front bar install was a bit of a pain.
The EB engine bay has excellent access, and I got the front mount bolts off all from above.
Did it all alone with no issues.

And they make a tremendous difference in handling, flat cornering with no added harshness.
No more of that slight front end lift on hard direction changes.
Another awesome upgrade!

 

[jbailer]

Installed the Steeda sways with billet mounts on my EB yesterday.
I must say it was quite an easy job, after seeing some online videos saying the front bar install was a bit of a pain.
The EB engine bay has excellent access, and I got the front mount bolts off all from above.
Did it all alone with no issues.

And they make a tremendous difference in handling, flat cornering with no added harshness.
No more of that slight front end lift on hard direction changes.
Another awesome upgrade!

Awesome! What settings did you use on the F+R swaybars?

 

[Chef jpd]

Awesome! What settings did you use on the F+R swaybars?

Soft in the front, middle on the rear.
Took the advice of this thread. Seems perfectly neutral.

 

[jbailer]

[MENTION=16585]Warhead[/MENTION] your post #4 in this thread reminded me I have a problem. I have this mountain of Steeda boxes that pile up. Certainly not even close to all of them but some of the recent ones. My wife says I'm a Steeda box horder and Steeda is probably having a box shortage... :headbonk:

 

[Warhead]

I have the same problem, lucky for me I own a warehouse and dedicated some shelf space to every single factory item removed and every single box per mod ever received!

I figure if I sell her on some day, would be nice to have around.

 

[SleepyPony]

Bought the sway/endlink package and got the billet mounts with the delrin bushings on top of that. (Ended up with the Front set to full soft and rear set to the middle hole).

Had the rear swaybar/endlink/mount on for a couple of days because I didn't have time to install the front but I noticed that it exposed the front end lifting during hard turns. The rear felt planted but the front was floaty. The car also felt like it wouldn't turn in and rotate as well with the stock EB pp swaybar.

Today I installed the front sway bar and it made a world of difference. It fixed the front end floatiness/lift and it also made the car much better during turn ins. Car feels so much better and planted during turns that its crazy. I just need to install my Steeda coilovers now to lower the center of gravity some and make the car respond to my inputs a little faster.

So far every Steeda suspension mod that i've done has been slowly transforming my little ecoboost into a corner carving monster. Can't wait until I have everything on and dialed in.

 

[Warhead]

I also ended up installing the Steeda strut tower brace, it further tightened things up and made steering incredibly responsive.

 

[WolfMxbee]

I want to update this thread and ask steeda some advice as well from other members, I have an Ecoboost and have lowering springs and a strut brace already, am finally about to order front and rear sway bars but.. with the front being at the softest and the rear in the middle being almost nuetral, is our stock sway bar links sufficient to handle the loads into cornering meaning is any gains actually being lossed due to deflection of the links, I remember (I'm only 25 so I feel old already to bring this up but..) back in my day of buying sway bars, everyone use to include links and now no more so would aftermarket adjustable links being thicker to absorb deflection and adjustable to change I assume the distance closer from the strut to sway bar link especially with lowering springs make the sway bars more stiffer evenly or would it add too much stiffness that itll throw off handling input? Its just an extra variable i wanna hear advice for track use, I take my ecoboost to the canyons and have yet to see a track day so I am not seeing ideal driving conditions or perfect asphault if that makes sense?

 

[S550HPP]

I have Eibach 35mm front sway on full soft and GT 24 mm rear sway on stock HPP springs and now Koni Active Front and B6 rear with mountain and trashed urban road driving exclusively with plenty 1G +/- logs.

I removed the near new Steeda links and replaced with OE that are ultra light, strong and silent.

You will never bend an OE link unless pulling well over 1.3+ G in autocross or tight track on huge track tire rubber. Canyons and track are two completely different environments with tack 10/10ths and Canyons usually 8/10th with dirty and dust patches next to deathly drops.

However, since you are lowered you may need the adjustable links. With the lowering springs already you're better off to get ProActive dampers all around and maybe the bump steer kit before sways IMO.

If your roads are glass smooth then B6 work well.

I found my sways on stock springs to be perfect and I have perfect balance with easily modulated throttle steer with suspension travel I need. I could have left the stock rear sway and been fine with the smoother transitions VS the GT 24 mm bar that's a smidge edgier

Hope this helps.

 

[tj@steeda]

I want to update this thread and ask steeda some advice as well from other members, I have an Ecoboost and have lowering springs and a strut brace already, am finally about to order front and rear sway bars but.. with the front being at the softest and the rear in the middle being almost nuetral, is our stock sway bar links sufficient to handle the loads into cornering meaning is any gains actually being lossed due to deflection of the links, I remember (I'm only 25 so I feel old already to bring this up but..) back in my day of buying sway bars, everyone use to include links and now no more so would aftermarket adjustable links being thicker to absorb deflection and adjustable to change I assume the distance closer from the strut to sway bar link especially with lowering springs make the sway bars more stiffer evenly or would it add too much stiffness that itll throw off handling input? Its just an extra variable i wanna hear advice for track use, I take my ecoboost to the canyons and have yet to see a track day so I am not seeing ideal driving conditions or perfect asphault if that makes sense?

Hello Wolf,

Shoot me your contact info to [email protected] & I will run this by our lead tech - we'll create the dialogue.

Best,

TJ

 

[S550HPP]

Also beware aftermarket poly bushings if in a cold climate better to have Ford Performance or GT350 ones, or H&,R bars that some with similar bushings.

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